She repeated four times that Arif Ahmed’s appointment as the inaugural director for freedom of speech and academic freedom “sends a huge signal” to the country, adding that it would “get the voice of common sense back into the debate”. The Education Secretary also suggested Mr Sunak’s appointment last week of England’s first ever “free speech tsar” marked a ramping up of the culture wars as the Conservative Party prepares for election footing. Our university sector is one of the best in the world, and it’s always important that we ensure it’s high quality.” Nick Fletcher MP, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and Miriam Cates MP on stage during the Northern Research Group conference in Doncaster Racecourse (Photo: Danny Lawson/PA) Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, suggested the Tory party would push on with its proposed crackdown on “Mickey Mouse degrees” ahead of the next general election as Mr Sunak targets education as a key tenet of the culture wars.Īsked if she would deliver on previous Tory pledges to weed out so-called Harry Potter degrees from British universities, Ms Keegan told i: “It’s always important that people do quality degrees, whether local students, domestic students or international students.
He suggested arbitrary civil service red tape had “failed the north and its people” by stifling devolution and halting plans to extend HS2, adding that it was “time to to blow up blobonomics” in order to level up the region.
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