New higher education minister Robert Halfon has criticised “decolonising nonsense” from the Quality Assurance Agency and challenged any university not offering a degree apprenticeship “to ask yourself why”.
Mr Halfon gave his first major speech as England’s minister for skills, apprenticeships and higher education at Times Higher Education’s THE Campus Live event in London.
He referred to the QAA’s request for lecturers to decolonise curricula on courses such as mathematics, which was first reported by THE. The issue has since been widely covered in the national press, including a report in the Daily Mail that claimed the QAA was advising universities to decolonise courses “from computing to classics”.
