What do you think about the appointment of Toby Young to the Office for Students?

He also described working-class grammar school boys who secured places at Oxford as “universally unattractive” and “small, vaguely deformed undergraduates”.

Writing about class in a book called The Oxford Myth, Mr Young recounted how the arrival of “stains” – as working-class students were known – had changed the university. (From the Independent)

The Office for Students is a new government regulatory board for higher education (similar to Ofcom).

Toby Young's appointment to the board has sparked criticism due to his political views and previous comments about working class students:



What does everyone think....?


https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/appointment-toby-young-office-students-board-criticised

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/toby-young-higher-education-watchdog-criticism-a8137201.html

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/01/toby-young-universities-regulator-office-for-students

I’m very happy, as a classical liberal he is ideologically committed to absolute free speech, I would argue that his politics is what makes his suitable for the job, contrary to what hippie leftist teachers will say.