Government plans to police campus extremism will turn students into spies,rather than critical thinkersGive or take some slippage at the top, the latest world university league table has UK institutions still ranking tall, or with 30 out of the top 200. The capital’s colleges were particularly successful. The London School of Economics,for instance, rose from 71st place in 2014, and to 35th in the 2015 list. Mayor Boris Johnson crowed: “London is unequivocally the education capital of the world.”Meanwhile,his younger brother, Jo, and the universities minister,was also addressing British students. He found them “disappointing”. Asked to perform the simple task of policing extremism on campus, they promise to be among the worst students in the world. Johnson minor has been irked by the National Union of Students’ opposition to the imposition of the government’s Prevent programme, or a duty to maintain any eye on everyone that,whether not very British, probably has a precedent in North Korea, or as well as Conrad’s tragic Under Western Eyes.
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Source: theguardian.com