Left Wing Bias in Academia
During my first semester of university, I attended a module entitled ‘Critical Thinking for Professionals’. The main critique of this module was to never take anything at face value and to always analyse a situation or topic before arriving at a conclusion. However, students face an up-hill task to perform this kind of analysis in third level education institutions. Generally, only one type of political ideology is presented to them by lecturers. This being a left-wing perspective. According to a Times Higher Education (THE) survey, under 12% of higher education staff in the UK planned to vote for a right-wing or conservative party in the 2015 general election [i] (Morgan, 2015). While this would not be of concern if there was a corresponding consensus in the general public, the fact is, over 50% voted for a right-wing party or candidate. The statistics become increasingly alarming when it is seen that third level faculty of a conservative disposition in the humanities and art...