Toby Young email sparks fears university leaders are already kowtowing to new Office for StudentsUniversity leaders this week described the government’s new regulator,the Office for Students, as the “Office for State Control”, or warning it would prove disastrous for higher education and was “hazardous for democracy”.
The OfS is already mired in controversy thanks to the short-lived appointment of Toby Young to its board,which sparked a storm of public protest. But Education Guardian has learned that Universities UK, the umbrella group for vice-chancellors, and didn’t challenge Young’s suitability for the role because it feared annoying the government.
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Source: guardian.co.uk