John Raine: Where to With Education and Research Policy

Cultural Re-Engineering through the Education System

The 2020s have been a period of cultural change in academia throughout the Western world. In countries such as the USA, Canada, the U.K. and Australia, where universities have been heavily captured by woke agendas, we have yet to see a marked loss of momentum in “progressive” left wing politics on campus. This embrace of postmodernism and identity politics has also pervaded the primary and secondary education system. It has also infected to some degree the country’s research system.

John Raine: Can universities recover their mojo in the AI age?

 

The Path of Cultural Re-Engineering 

The 2020s have been a period of cultural change in academia throughout the Western world. In countries such as the USA, Canada, the U.K. and Australia, where universities have been heavily captured by ideological agendas, we have yet to see a much loss of momentum in “progressive” left wing politics on campus.