We’re told that students perform better when exposed to “different formats”. This is fair enough in principle, though the guidelines decline to specify what these formats might be, beyond implying there will be an impressive number of them. One can already picture the future: a single course requiring essays, posters, podcasts, puppet shows and a short stop-motion film made from Play-Doh – each designed to develop the student’s confidence, creativity and capacity to perform self-expression in increasingly unhinged ways.

Next, the document warns that “Standard Academic English” (once known as “English”) is an oppressive tool that advantages “already privileged students”.
…continue Samizdata quote of the day – King’s College London has ceased to be a university