The Conservative Party conference brought frustration over ministers “grandstanding” by attacking English universities rather than seeing them as drivers of growth, while big questions on funding remain unresolved and planned entry restrictions are tipped to be dropped by the Truss government.
A Tory conference fringe event on Brexit saw the skills minister, Andrea Jenkyns, claim that universities offer “anti-British history and sociological Marxism”, while the home secretary, Suella Braverman, pledged action on visas for students and dependants because “too many students [are] coming into this country who are propping up…substandard courses in inadequate institutions”.
