Skills minister Andrea Jenkyns’ accusations that universities feed students “critical race theory and anti-British history” were “appalling” and “cheap wisecracks” must be replaced by “mature debate”, according to a former Number 10 adviser on education.
Jonathan Simons, a former head of education in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit when Labour’s Gordon Brown was prime minister, and former head of education at the right-wing Policy Exchange thinktank, made the comments at a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference in Birmingham.
