Bad Education Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Cheating parents and greedy vice chancellors. Culture wars and faculty misconduct. Welcome to the shadowy, decaying world of academia. This explosive insider's account will show you how our universities are broken, and what we must do to fix them. Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Cheating parents and greedy vice chancellors. Culture wars and faculty misconduct. Welcome to the shadowy, decaying world of academia. -------------------------Our universities are broken. Consumed by funding and admissions crises, governed by corruption and self-interest, they have become frontiers of cultural, social and political division. Established as ivory towers and sanctuaries of higher learning, they are now broken institutions that are failing a generation of young people. This explosive book shows us why, and what we must do to fix them. Anonymous has spent decades climbing the greasy pole of academia, delivering underfunded courses to increa

Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Cheating parents, funding crises and faculty misconduct. Culture wars and campus protests. This explosive account from Sunday Times bestselling author Matt Goodwin will show you why our universities are broken, and what we must do to fix them. THE EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NATIONAL POPULISM AND VALUES, VOICE AND VIRTUE. Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Cheating parents, funding crises and faculty misconduct. Culture wars and campus protests. Welcome to the broken world of academia. Welcome to Bad Education. -------------------------Our universities are broken. Established as sanctuaries of truth and higher learning, they are now decaying institutions that are failing a generation of young people. Consumed by funding and admissions crises, dominated by dogma and governed by self-interest, their founding principles have been corrupted. This explosive book shows us why, and what we must do to fix them. Matt Goodwin spent decades working as an academic in some of the world's leading universities, delivering underfunded courses to increasingly disengaged lecture theatres, sitting on rudderless committees, counselling depressed colleagues and concerned students, watching standards slip and academic integrity decline. At the heart of this crisis is an increasingly politicised campus. Once bastions of free speech, forums for open debate and incubators of bold new ideas, our universities are increasingly becoming monocultures, ruled by an ideology that is silencing respected voices, stifling discussion and violently shutting down diverse opinion, betraying intellectual freedom. Unflinching, shocking and urgent, this first-hand account provides an insider's view of how the founding principles of academia are in decline and why we should all consider what this means for the students of today, tomorrow and the world they will shape.