A university is considering legal action against a former student who set up a website claiming that its lecturers are “indoctrinating” undergraduates with “far-left” ideology.

Sheffield Hallam University’s politics and sociology departments are accused of using the course to “impose their own views on students” and failing to address alternative points of view.

A politics graduate, who set up the website anonymously, claims the university’s social sciences department is “simply used to promote left-wing propaganda at public expense”.

The website has sections on ten different lecturers and gives examples about how their teaching is one-sided, including claims that some reading lists “consisted solely” of left-wing authors and that teaching focussed disproportionately on “promoting” socialist ideologies.

Lecturers are accused of openly encouraging students to vote for Labour and of “routinely” attacking Ukip in lecturers.

Sheffield Hallam University said it has been made aware of a blog that includes “potentially defamatory information”, adding: “As a result the University is considering taking legal action.”

Writing on the site, the graduate complains that their degree was “a complete waste of time and money”.

They went on: “The course consisted of a bunch of far-left lecturers from the politics and sociology departments indoctrinating students into far-left ideology.