Defund woke universities to defeat the new totalitarians.
Something must be done to protect rigour and freedom in higher education
Last week the Quality Assurance Agency, an outfit posturing as a standards-setter for university degree courses but which has no official standing, announced that curriculums in 25 subjects should be “decolonised”. Among its gems of idiocy were that “racism, classism, ableism, homophobia and patriarchy” should feature in teaching geography. Were that not enough, young people should, the QAA said, be taught how scientists have “benefited from and perpetuated misogyny, racism, homophobia, ableism and other prejudices”. Apparently, those who split the atom and discovered DNA and penicillin were fundamentally evil because of their whiteness, maleness, Britishness and perceived heterosexuality.... etc, etc. DT.
