{"product_id":"9781787635241","title":"Bad Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK FROM THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eNATIONAL POPULISM\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eVALUES, VOICE AND VIRTUE\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDepressed 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 \u003cu\u003eBad\u003c\/u\u003e Education.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnflinching, 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.","brand":"Matt Goodwin","offers":[{"title":"Transworld |  Hardback  |  2025-02-25","offer_id":46019523510527,"sku":"9781787635241","price":42.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c49e5eca-8b05-4305-8cb2-102fef00eb0e.jpg?v=1723183001","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781787635241","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}