Is it time to bulldoze the universities? I’ve said it before, half-joking — but every time I repeat it, I’m joking less and less.
It’s becoming all too plain that the intellectual and ideological rot in our universities is so far gone that they’re beyond repair. If universities were a building, they’d be condemned and torn down.
It’s a mistake, too, to think that the rot is confined to the Humanities. STEM courses are just as bad. Like the Humanities, they’re dominated by left-wing staff — and increasingly spouting demonstrable nonsense, such as that Stone Age mythologies are equal to “Western science”.
Some time ago, a younger acquaintance who’d just started a Computing Science course told me, “I thought all this woke rubbish was just in the Humanities — but it’s even in the sciences!”
He wasn’t wrong.
Universities have been told to teach about “colonialism”, “white supremacy” and “class division” by the body that advises on degree content.
Not just in the usual “grievance studies” courses, where you’d expect this kind of stupidity. In computing courses.
In one example, the Quality Assurance Agency has told universities that computing courses should address “how divisions and hierarchies of colonial value are replicated and reinforced” within the subject.
Geography courses should acknowledge “racism, classism, ableism, homophobia and patriarchy,” further guidance states.
Meanwhile, the QAA says that maths curriculums “should present a multicultural and decolonised view of mathematics, statistics and operational research, informed by the student voice” and Economics students should be taught that it is “still predominantly a white, male and Western field.”
Please, just bulldoze them. Bulldoze them all. Nuke the sites from orbit.
Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said: “It’s alarming. Campuses are being ordered to go woke.
“This QAA enforcement of anti-white and anti-Western racial hatred and division is iniquitous.
“It will undermine racial integration in our country and breed either resentment or self-loathing.”
Which, we might suspect, is exactly what they intended.
The QAA describes itself as an independent body “trusted by higher education providers and regulatory bodies to maintain and enhance quality and standards.”
A spokesman for the QAA told the Daily Mail: “Subject benchmark statements do not mandate set approaches to teaching, learning or assessment […]
“It’s up to the individual academics and their departments whether or how closely they follow this guidance.
Telegraph
Except that its related bureaucratic watchdog, the OfS, openly threatens that “Where we have concerns that these requirements are not being met, we can and will intervene.”
Which sounds a lot like a mandate to me.
A bit like vax mandates that weren’t “mandates” — you’d just lose your job and be cast out of society if you didn’t comply.
