Bad Education

Matt Goodwin

ISBN 10: 1787635244 / ISBN 13: 9781787635241

Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, GB, 2025

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'Buy this book' DOUGLAS MURRAY'An urgent call for reformation' DAVID GOODHARTTHE 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bad Education
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787635244
• ISBN 13: 9781787635241
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 200 grams

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Synopsis

Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Cheating parents and greedy vice chancellors. Welcome to the shadowy world of academia.

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Meet The Secret Professor: he/she has spoken at university Open Days, sat on committees, guides many through their degrees and spent decades climbing the increasingly greasy career ladder - only to realise that it is all bullshit. In fact, the system is broken at its core.

The Secret Professor tells it all. From outdated course structures and campus politics to what tuition fees are really spent on. From 'The Oxford Mafia', identity politics, culture wars and scandal in the #MeToo era to writing papers no one reads and turning ill-equipped lecturers into therapists and sexual health advisors, he/she lifts the lid on the shadowy world of higher education. Within the pages is a deeper truth - that most of us know someone who has gone to university, is studying at one or hopes to do so in future. Yet none of us know what's really going on.

Unflinching and thoroughly humorous, this first-hand account provides an insider's narrative on 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.

About the Author

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.