Submitted on Thursday 4th January 2018
Rejected on Monday 8th January 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: honours (see below for details)
Remove Toby Young from his position on the board of the Office for Students
While the government either ignorantly or wilfully mislead about Young's qualifications he himself admitted that he has never held a job in academia. As well as being unqualified he has a history of classist, ableist, and sexist tweets and comments that should class him as unsuitable for such a role
For a column in The Spectator Young referred to wheelchair ramps in school's as "ghastly" political correctness. In an essay in The Quadrant he suggested that poorer people should be helped to pick embryos based on intelligence. Young (who has never held an academic position) said teaching was "not that tough". Young also referred to working class students at Oxford as "stains".
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