Trigger warnings, mental health issues, transgender rights and knee-jerk cancel culture: Welcome to life on university campus in modern Britain, as revealed by anonymous academic 'The Secret Lecturer'
Daily MailAn anonymous academic has lifted the lid on what life is like on university campus in modern Britain, with trigger warnings rife, knee-jerk cancel culture, and lecturers dishing out inflated grades with it impossible for students to fail their course. Although most students are well-behaved and more interested in eating healthily than 'getting smashed', there is an 'epidemic of mental illness' spreading throughout, The Secret Lecturer reveals in a new book. An anonymous academic has lifted the lid on what life is like on university campus in modern Britain, with trigger warnings rife, knee-jerk cancel culture, and lecturers dishing out inflated grades The advances in AI mean and the arrival of Elon Musk's ChatGPT mean plagiarism is virtually 'untraceable', reported The Times. The Secret Lecturer reveals in a new book that although most students are well-behaved and more interested in eating healthily than 'getting smashed', there is an 'epidemic of mental illness' spreading throughout For two seminars in a row no students turned up with mental health problems leaving some walking around like 'lost souls'.
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