The death-knell of British universities is sounded by their genuflection to the UN’s 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). The public may have little idea how the notion of a University as a place of learning and critical inquiry has disappeared – assuming it ever existed – to give way to a factory that manufactures compliance with global agendas.
A monstrous straightjacket on what passes for Higher Education Forget censorship. The imposition of SDGs on British Universities cannot fail to create younger generations – and this is the purpose – who are compliant with the UN’s Agenda 30.
In case you think we are exaggerating, we download in what follows policies from the institutions hailed as shining lights in the British educational firmament. No interpretation here – just straight quotes. Steel yourself as you read through the quotes since they paint a dark picture of an ‘education’ system whose purpose is compliance not thinking.
We’ll start with the institution that crowns the Times and Sunday Times league tables, St Andrews. And remember that this is a verbatim quote from their website.
“The University of St Andrews integrates sustainability into its curriculum through a framework called Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Rather than limiting environmental education to geography or earth sciences, the university embeds it across all academic disciplines, from the arts and humanities to professional programs. “
Well if you think that this bad enough (and note the American spelling of ‘programmes’), read on:
“The core components of this curricular integration include: Mandatory Student Training (TESA) Every incoming student must complete the Training in Environmental Sustainability Action (TESA) module as a mandatory requirement for matriculation. TESA ensures that all students—regardless of their degree path—graduate with a shared foundation in:
Climate justice and the mechanics of the global climate emergency.
Local action, introducing practical ways to engage with the circular economy, low-carbon travel, and local food growing.
Campus green initiatives, such as the community gardens and local bike-pooling programs.”
If you’re feeling very uncomfortable, then prepare for even worse with the University’s ‘The Golden Dandelion Award’. According to the University, this is designed to “incentivize faculty [yes, that is their spelling] to redesign their courses around ecological awareness …..[is] managed by the Sustainability in the Curriculum Committee (a joint group of students and staff) and….. recognizes [American spelling again] individual modules that excel in teaching environmental sustainability”.
Unique madness? No, for you will find the same in all the institutions crowning the University league tables. Not to spoil your day, but here is a sample from the top five:
The LSE: This institution writes that “Every single undergraduate student at LSE must take LSE100, the university’s signature interdisciplinary course. LSE completely redesigned LSE100 to anchor its core problem-solving models around climate change and sustainability. Because it is mandatory for all degrees, it guarantees that every LSE graduate—regardless of whether they study pure economics, history, or anthropology—is forced to engage with the complex trade-offs inherent in the UN SDGs”.
The compulsion here, with no possibility of opting out of a module that is political in nature, is of enormous concern. This from an institution that holds itself up as a leading light in the academic study of Economic and Political systems.
Imperial: Our sense of concern extends to the offer at Imperial College which states that: “Rather than treating the SDGs as a siloed discipline, Imperial builds global goal competencies into its core science, engineering, and enterprise workflows”. And this is the ‘University of the year ‘ according to The Times and the institution that, courtesy of Neil Ferguson, frightened the world into Covid with its computer models.
Cambridge: despite the Jason Arday scandal, Cambridge sits in fourth position. Well, it boasts what it terms “Cambridge Zero”, an initiative founded in “ Ideas and innovations to tackle the global challenge of Climate Catastrophe”. Words fail one when some of the brightest minds in science have exposed the frauds in Climate scaremongering.
Oxford: this university – leading the global rankings of universities in the Times Higher Education league table for ten successive years, has a stated goal to achieve Net Zero, achievable by virtue of “An unparalleled depth and breadth of expertise in developing solutions to the climate and nature crisis”. This is something of an oxymoron.
Conclusion It rather seems that we have stepped into a dystopian novel with distorted values, rather like 1984 or The Handmaiden’s Tale – but one which is firmly embedded in the structure of Britain today.
The escape? To push for alternative systems of education and ways of delivering essential services such as health, engineering, science and technology; and essential disciplines, fundamental to mental wellbeing such as literature and music; and new systems of law. With this in mind, we urge you to share this article so that awareness of the evil in our midst is enhanced, thereby acting as a spur to creating educational initiatives that promote intellectual rigour and creativity.
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