Calls by a Conservative peer and former government adviser to tie higher education funding to students’ performance in “national tests for tolerance of other viewpoints”, providing “a strong reason” for them to “vote Conservative and help tackle out of control wokery in tertiary education”, are “truly galaxy brain”, according to critics.
Lord Wei, a co-founder of the social enterprise Teach First who was appointed a peer by former prime minister David Cameron to advise on his roundly ridiculed Big Society vision, makes the comments in a ConservativeHome article outlining five groups for the party to target at the next election.
Positing students and graduates as one of those groups, he writes: “Any support given must be linked with tackling the high levels of woke indoctrination they face at university.”
Lord Wei continues: “One approach might be to offer debt relief or forgiveness as prizes for those students and graduates who can pass national tests in which they achieve the highest scores for tolerance of other viewpoints, lateral thinking, and critical thinking.
