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Review: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

May 20, 2025

One has the impression that the main role of the university these days is to maximise profit, while that of the majority of teaching staff is to ensure the ‘correct’ views are passed on to students. All the while, students’ main concern seems to be to seek protection from anything that might make them feel unsafe.

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In Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, Bad Education, Matt Goodwin, SchoolsWeek
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Quick looks: Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

May 4, 2025

It was a great source of pride to me, getting hundreds of students through their A levels and encouraging them to go to university. But for some time I have asked myself a question: would I recommend this route now?

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In Bookshelf, Quick Looks, Reviews Tags reviews, Bad Education, Goodwin, SchoolsWeek, quick looks
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One would think that the stories told by the exhibits in natural history museums are reasonably objective and factual, but apparently not.

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Back in the 1930s, radio was the cutting edge technology in the home.

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Writing was invented ‘only’ a few thousand years ago. It’s a fascinating story.

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