by Matt Goodwin (Author)
'Buy this book' DOUGLAS MURRAY
'An urgent call for reformation' DAVID GOODHART
THE EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NATIONAL POPULISM AND VALUES, VOICE AND VIRTUE. Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Funding crises and falling standards. 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, mired in political scandal 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 and failing to deliver the very basics of an education.
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.
Author Biography
Matt Goodwin is an academic, writer, pollster, and campaigner. He has held academic posts at the universities of Manchester, Nottingham, and Kent, was seconded to a government department, and has worked with countless think-tanks, including the Royal Institute for International Affairs. From 2015-2024 he was professor of politics at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He is the Sunday Times bestselling author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy and Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics.
Number of Pages: 256
Publication Date: January 02, 2025
