Censorship is growing as librarians and curators increasingly take it upon themselves to try to protect readers from the supposed threat posed by "problematic" books, says Frank Furedi.
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Sebastian Milbank has written an excellent piece in the Critic charting the descent of the University of Edinburgh into woke madness and how that spilled over in 'decolonial' antisemitic bile in the past week.
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There is an aspect of higher education that one never hears spoken – the cost of frittering away the productive working time of the young, an invisible drain on our society far larger than the direct costs of education.
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It's time, says Aditya A, to crack down on graduate visas to Indian students not at the top universities. "Allowing them to come even though they take Mickey Mouse degrees and are not here to study anyway is perilous."
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Grade inflation is rampant at universities, a consequence of replacing the pursuit of excellence with the pursuit of league table rankings linked to pass rates.
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Discriminatory practices are clearly being encouraged as part of DEI in academic publishing, says Amber Muhinyi, as publishers are collecting data on the race of authors and reviewers and presenting this to journals.
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The Western world has gone all-in for wokeness, yet many on the Left still persist in their paranoid delusion that Right-wing ideas control the culture, says Dr David McGrogan.
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A strikes leaflet from the University and College Union has a glaring spelling error – and that just sums up everything that's wrong with higher education, says Busqueros.
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Child clinical psychologist Dr Zenobia Storah reviews the desperate accounts of life during the Covid lockdowns for young people and the appalling legacy for their mental health.
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The US Supreme Court has ruled that universities can no longer take race into consideration when granting admission in a landmark decision that ends the widespread discriminatory practice of 'affirmative action'.
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