"THE ACADEMIA CASH COW HANDBOOK: HOW TO NAVIGATE UNIVERSITY"

A critical reflection on how power operates within universities, this book examines the often unspoken ways teachers, supervisors, and institutions can misuse authority through intimidation, gatekeeping, favouritism, exploitation, and the normalisation of silence. Framed against the wider university system, it explores how higher education can treat students as financial assets while masking structural inequality behind the language of mentorship, prestige, and opportunity. This handbook is both a provocation and a survival guide: exposing abuse, questioning institutional culture, and offering a sharper way to navigate academia with clarity, resistance, and self-preservation.