Compiled by Dr Richard Norrie, a researcher at the think-tank Civitas, the table ranks 137 universities after scouring websites, national and local media, and promotional materials for examples of ‘campus wokery’.
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Sir John Hayes MP, chair of the Common Sense Group of Tories and a former further education minister, said universities were wasting resources on ‘woke nonsense’. ‘Universities should be places of light and liberty learning, but a dark shadow has fallen over too much of higher education,’ he told the Mail. ‘Woke nonsense has replaced scholarship and too many universities are not only wasting resources but risk poisoning the minds of generations to come. The report is disturbing.’
Full ranking, report and methodology:https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/the-radical-progressive-university-guide/
Wow, this guy needs to get a different hobby / maybe leave the house some time...
Why do these culture warriors get so triggered by what is apparent sensible documentation of reading materials or courses? Wouldn't you want to know that an archeology course might involve a boggy corpse before you sign up? Or if you're depressed, that Peter Pan might not be a fun book?
And isn't his entire report a trigger warning, that you shouldn't sign up to universities where you might get triggered by trigger warnings?
Very good question, who pays him and civitas? Nobody knows, though likely some brexiteer billionaires and oil industry lobby types looking to save more taxes by making you think they care about you and the other peasants:
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Sir John Hayes MP, chair of the Common Sense Group of Tories and a former further education minister, said universities were wasting resources on ‘woke nonsense’. ‘Universities should be places of light and liberty learning, but a dark shadow has fallen over too much of higher education,’ he told the Mail. ‘Woke nonsense has replaced scholarship and too many universities are not only wasting resources but risk poisoning the minds of generations to come. The report is disturbing.’
Full ranking, report and methodology:https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/the-radical-progressive-university-guide/
Newspaper report:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11638389/Half-universities-peddle-woke-agenda-students.html
Why do these culture warriors get so triggered by what is apparent sensible documentation of reading materials or courses? Wouldn't you want to know that an archeology course might involve a boggy corpse before you sign up? Or if you're depressed, that Peter Pan might not be a fun book?
And isn't his entire report a trigger warning, that you shouldn't sign up to universities where you might get triggered by trigger warnings?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitas_(think_tank)