The university could be the last bastion of woke

Matt Goodwin's Bad Education paints a damning picture of life inside the academy.

The university could be the last bastion of woke ideas.

Universities that fail to pledge allegiance to the cult of diversity may soon face cuts to research budgets.

UK Research and Innovation describes equality, diversity and inclusion as integral’ to its vision and mission’.

Matt Goodwin ’s Bad Education : Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix them is published by Penguin .

He tells of an increasingly vast and powerful bureaucracy’, comprising an assortment of university vice-chancellors, senior bureaucrats and administrators, unelected higher-education agencies, think-tanks, research councils, charities and lobbying groups.

This group asserts control over every aspect of university life from who gets appointed and promoted to the content of taught courses.