James Cleverly has accused universities and parts of the media of using Jason Arday as a 'black wunderkind' and then abandoning him, after the Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row was found dead at his home in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
The education secretary said institutions had been keen to celebrate the academic's rise but had failed to provide 'real support' when his work came under intense public scrutiny.
