'In withdrawing the offer, the University is categorically not making any judgement on Mr Sewell personally or expressing a view on his work. 'Since making the decision to confer an honorary degree in late 2019, the University’s Honorary Degrees Committee noted that Mr Sewell became the subject of political controversy during 2021, and as such determined it would no longer be appropriate to award the degree. 'The criteria preclude us from awarding them to figures who become the subject of political controversy. ‘When see what is going to come out of this, they will see they have shot themselves in the foot,’ he added.Ī University of Nottingham spokesperson said: 'The University has strict criteria governing the award of honorary degrees, as these are conferred at our public graduation ceremonies. The university later apologised and paid a settlement to the student.ĭr Sewell also accused some media outlets of ‘reworking the narrative’ when covering his report, adding that some of the commissioners who worked on it had come under ‘unfair attack’. In 2020, a midwifery undergraduate lost a placement after a lecturer claimed her anti-abortion views made her unfit to practise.
It operates a ‘content warning’ policy that orders lecturers to warn students if modules reference any of 26 ‘traumatic’ subjects including classism, transphobia and photos of blood. Nottingham University is no stranger to ‘woke’ controversy. Pictured: Boris Johnson and Dr Sewell in No 10
Later this week, the Government is expected to publish its longawaited response to the report and Dr Sewell is hopeful they will accept many of his recommendations.
‘I thought the work of a university was to deal with complex issues? universities in England are like the Soviet Union. But they have acted like cowards, subject to lobbying groups. Referencing disgraced entertainers R Kelly and Bill Cosby, Dr Sewell continued: ‘These are the type of people you decide to withdraw honours from. How can you offend students with a report which says the equalities watchdog should have more power, that stop and search should be improved and that we need to get more people from ethnic minorities into university?’ ‘But said it would no longer be appropriate to award me the degree because they didn’t want to offend the students at an award ceremony. He added: ‘I have helped thousands of black children from poor backgrounds to get into universities.
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In an interview with the Daily Mail, he said: ‘This is going to be life-changing for ethnic minorities and I just feel positive that we’ve been able to change the world.’īut he accused lobby groups who dismissed the report without reading it as hating ‘black success’, adding: ‘Some groups feel they can tell black people how to be black and in effect indulging a form of racism by doing that.’ĭr Sewell, founder of the Generating Genius charity, also took aim at universities – saying they were stifling free speech ‘like the Soviet Union’. But in December they told him this had been withdrawn because he had become the ‘subject of political controversy’ Nottingham University had decided to offer Dr Sewell an honorary degree in late 2019 – before the publication of the report.
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