Race charity is cashing in on campus culture wars

Trigger warning obsession

A CHARITY has been accused of spreading ‘egregious wokery’ in universities by charging them thousands of pounds to take part in a racial equality programme.

Advance HE has signed up dozens of universities to its Race Equality Charter scheme, which advises on ‘inclusive teaching’.

The training provider claims to help tackle racism on campus with ‘contemporary approaches’, but critics say its scheme is promoting toxic political ideology.

They say it is encouraging univerthing’s

‘Toxic political ideology’

sities to obsess over woke issues such as trigger warnings and decolonising the curriculum.

MPs even compared the membership fee-funded scheme to Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme, which has been dropped by some employers following concerns that it is extreme.

Universities compete for medals to prove they are the most ‘inclusive’.

MPs say trigger warnings were recommended on thousands of texts at Cambridge University. It’s claimed the warnings help students ‘engage safely and with minimal psychological distress’.

But Conservative MP Brendan Clarke-Smith, a former member of the Commons education committee, said: ‘When institutions like Cambridge University are putting trigger warnings on Little House On The Prairie, you know somegoing badly wrong on campuses. Advance HE is doing exactly the same thing Stonewall did – ramming through its toxic political ideology under the pretext of fighting for social justice.’

A government source told The Sunday Telegraph that the Advance HE charter ‘uses diversity to degenerate universities into the most egregious wokery’.

Alison Johns, chief executive of the charity, said the charter helps university staff to develop their own plans to address issues of racial inequality in higher education.