More anecdata for you then. My wife is a lecturer in an English department at a Russell Group university, and whilst some percentage of her students are extrem

More anecdata for you then. My wife is a lecturer in an English department at a Russell Group university, and whilst some percentage of her students are extremely critical she has had a very hard time getting them to have a basic comprehension of critical English. By this I mean, the students cannot define the words that they use, and do not understand the language that they consume and create. Their vocabulary appears to be smaller, and the phrasing is reflective of people who are reading fewer long-reads, fewer critical pieces and papers. She spends too much of her own allocated teaching time raising the standard such that she is able to work with them on more complex analytical thought towards the end of the degree. The chances that the students may read Adorno in their spare time approaches zero, and so the chances of them comprehending Deleuze does not exist. If that sounds lofty, bear in mind that the students that she has comprise a decent proportion of foreign students who cannot even pass basic English comprehension tests, and yet are admitted because the fees for them are so high that the university will accept them no matter what.