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An anonymous academic has lifted the lid on what life is like on university campus in modern Britain, with trigger warnings rife, knee-jerk cancel culture, and lecturers dishing out inflated grades with it impossible for students to fail their course.
Although most students are well-behaved and more interested in eating healthily than 'getting smashed', there is an 'epidemic of mental illness' spreading throughout, The Secret Lecturer reveals in a new book.
Financing issues are causing standards to be 'obliterated' while universities are striking murky million pound deals with 'arms dealers, fossil fuel companies and foreign dictatorships'.
Some lecturers are taking books and films that represent slavery, sexual assault and suicide off the syllabus out of fear they might upset some hypersensitive students.
'But a representation of something terrible is not a moral validation of it — quite the contrary,' they say.
'We're back to that dilemma of needing to protect the welfare of students but also requiring them to recognise that the world is nasty, unfair and violent — and that a good deal of great art reflects that.'
An anonymous academic has lifted the lid on what life is like on university campus in modern Britain, with trigger warnings rife, knee-jerk cancel culture, and lecturers dishing out inflated grades
The advances in AI mean and the arrival of Elon Musk's ChatGPT mean plagiarism is virtually 'untraceable', reported The Times.
Even when students are caught out they break down in tears and blame mental distress for cheating, with their punishment being allowed to resubmit their work in the summer.
'Nobody is allowed to fail,' they say as students are now seen as 'customers we can't afford to upset'.
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