Some UK universities are not equipping students with useful skills but indoctrinating them with “a diet of critical race theory, anti-British history, and sociological Marxism,” a minister has said.
Andrea Jenkyns, minister for skills, further, and higher education, criticised the current education system, which she said would rather have young people get a degree in “Harry Potter studies” than work in construction.
The government is committed to clamping down on low-quality university courses, she told a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference on Oct. 3.
Jenkyns said: “A skilled modern economy competing on the global stage requires technical skills just as much as it needs graduates. Yet the current system would rather our young people get a degree in Harry Potter studies than the apprentices shaping construction….