Toby Young to help lead government's new universities regulator

[LeftishBrit]

1. Toby Young would make Michael Gove look reasonable

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He is the founder of a free school, which has had 4 headteachers in 6 years, and needed to be bailed out financially.

He is a right-wing journalist and author, and has said horrible things about working-class students, whom he described in a 1988 book (1988! not 1888!), as 'universally unattractive' and 'small vaguely deformed undergraduates' and claimed that they were called 'stains' by the other Oxford students.


http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/01/backlash-appointment-tory-cheerleader-toby-young-university-watchdog-7195812/


(I was a near-contemporary of his at Oxford, and I did meet a few nasty snobbish students in my time, but I NEVER encountered that vile term - he must have either invented it or been keeping some very bad company! And I do wonder what his great leader at the time, Maggie Thatcher, would have thought of the term?!!!)


He has also been vile about schoolchildren with disabilities, whom he compared to 'functionally illiterate troglodytes')

https://tompride.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/toby-young-disabled-children-should-be-excluded-from-schools/


The whole thing makes me shudder! I had thought that Higher Education Minister Jo Johnson -who appointed this scumbag - was at least better than his brother; but it seems that I was overly charitable.