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Having taught ar quite a few unis I wouldn’t agree that there’s a massive bias towards the left. Institutionally, apart from Buckingham, I’ve only experienced a desire to research rather than indoctrinate. They are liberal in nature in the sense that there is a belief in education for all, an...

Whilst I agree with you totally that exposure to a broad spectrum of ideas is counterproductive, give students credit, especially those at the elite end of higher education, that they get inspiration and views from sources outside of the lecture theatre too. I often tell students that in an...

Yup, I’m with you entirely. Engage in the issue and rather than focus on the ‘what’ element of a viewpoint, try to understand the ‘why’ factors, which tend to be far more revealing and help identify more underlying issues. Neither the left or the right have a monopoly on closed minds, and by...

Blimey, does that mean when I was teaching creative accounting at Lehman Bros and Bear Sterns graduates in Wall Street (amongst others) I was trying to subliminally bring down capitalism? It nearly worked though...