This is Part 1 of UK Column’s three-part interview series with Prof Gloria Moss. In Part 1, Prof Gloria Moss and Prof Diane Rasmussen McAdie uncovered the higher education crisis that has recently unfolded in the UK and across the West.
They exposed several factors that have caused the crisis.
For example, the Gates Foundation provides substantial research funding, including millions for ‘vaccine’ research.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) runs a Global University Leaders Forum, which “is an invitation only community of global, forward-thinking, and solution-oriented university leaders who are committed to supporting the Forum's mission of improving the state of the world”. In a 2020 article, the WEF explained how “university entrepreneurship can bring to the post-COVID world” can help achieve its “Great Reset”.
UK universities are removing “challenging” books to “protect” students. Diane mentioned Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries, which explains exactly how university libraries are destroying collections and library catalogues. More factors that have caused the crisis are exposed in the interview.
Gloria and Diane also explored concerns about free speech and academic freedom in modern-day universities, which is being addressed in England and Wales under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. Prof Moss mentioned Spiked’s 2018 Free Speech University Rankings in relation to these concerns. For more on this topic, please see Diane’s previous UK Column interviews with Prof Dennis Hayes, Director of Academics for Academic Freedom, and Heather McKee, the (now former) Convener of Student Academics for Academic Freedom.
Gloria runs Truth University, which offers research qualifications at diploma and master’s level. Truth University Press has published Light Bulb Moments and the Power of Critical Thinking by Gloria and Katherine Armitage, as well as The Dark Side of Academia: How Truth Is Suppressed by The Secret Professor.
Ben Rubin will conduct Part 2 of UK Column’s interview series with Gloria, and Diane will be back with Gloria for Part 3.