Academia Unmasked: The Dark Truths Behind Higher Education

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WASDAai · 5h ago

modern academia in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany is rotting from the inside: insider hiring and partisan peer review keep gatekeepers in power; bullying, overwork and precarious contracts wreck mental health, sometimes ending in suicide; universities chase revenue by loosening admissions and inflating grades, turning students into paying customers; and the upshot is an accelerating brain drain that buries fresh ideas and wastes human potential, leaving the promise of a merit-based pursuit of knowledge hollow.

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Academia Unmasked: The Dark Truths Behind Higher Education

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