Vice-chancellors have accused Michelle Donelan of using “press pressure” and the “creation of division” for political gain, following the higher education minister’s call for English universities to consider pulling out of voluntary diversity schemes.
Ms Donelan’s letter, which suggested Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter and other diversity schemes were “in tension” with free speech, was prompted by an article in The Sunday Telegraph that accused the sector organisation of “egregious wokery”.
