Cancellation attempts harm academics’ careers—even if those attempts fail. A new study finds that targeted academics see a 20% decline in number of papers published and a 4% decline in total citations received.
Universities have been told to scrap rules that push the DEI agenda under new Government guidance issued by the Office for Students to ensure free speech is protected on campus.
The problems with universities run deeper than free speech, says Professor James Alexander. They have become a conspiracy against the public: privileged, degraded, pandering institutions heading towards heat death.
Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, Government free speech champion Arif Ahmed has said, as he warned universities they face fines from August if they fail to uphold free speech.
From Weaving Our Own Justice in Colombia to Theatre-Making in Kenya, there seems no end to the international research projects lavishly funded by you, the hard-working taxpayer. Charlotte Gill compiles her top 10.
Woke waste was bad under the Tories, but it's got even worse under Labour, says Charlotte Gill. Check out the millions being flushed down the drain on these pointless 'arts and humanities research projects'.
Academics can be cruel to dissenters from 'progressive' dogma, even more so when they're right. Dr Michael Rainsborough pays tribute to his late friend Dr David Martin Jones, who deserves to be much more widely read.
Trump's attack on Harvard could be a turning point in the battle against the capture of academia by a climate-industrial complex that serves globalist interests over those of ordinary citizens, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
Academics lean heavily Left. Does this affect the results of their studies? A paper has found that researchers who support higher immigration are more likely to find results in line with that policy.
Academic publishing is in crisis. Now a multi-billion dollar industry where researchers pay journals to publish their papers, the old guarantees of quality and accuracy have been stripped away, says John MacNab.
