Why our universities, established as sanctuaries of truth and higher learning are broken and are failing a generation of young people. Consumed by funding and admission crisis, mired in political scandal and governed by self-interest, their founding principles have been corrupted. Matt Goodwin spent decades working as an academic in some of the world’s leading universities including professor of politics at the University of Kent, 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. He argues that diversity of opinion is under threat in … Continue reading Language and curriculum have to be decolonised to deliver diversity, equality and inclusion.