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Post by bormes on Jun 5, 2011 7:40:15 GMT -1
Is this idea of a new university to be in opposition to Oxford and Cambridge and charging the amount of £18,000 per annum, possibly a good idea
Is this going to be an even more elitist place than the other two as ordinary lads and lassies can not afford these prices?
I was of the opinion that most academics were quite socialist in outlook, so this seems to be a strange move.
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Post by westender on Jun 8, 2011 11:40:04 GMT -1
Certainly when this story broke, I was kinda whoopin and hollerin... thank feck, some brainy sorts are going to claim back the Humanities, and get back to proper basics. They were making all the noises (apart from the outlandish fees, which I TOTALLY disagree with) that I agree with, in terms of what a university education should be. However... "fail to plan - plan to fail". This venture does not appear to have been thought out very well. It WON'T confer degrees; it will provide off the peg courses from the Uni of London, albeit with a few hours' teaching by some high profile names... but those names surely just have better PR than a lot of their equally-qualified academic peers in our existing good universities. (well, what passes for good these days). Who is this college for? Folk who can't get into Oxbridge? The launch has pointed up many flaws in the idea. Not to mention hostility among students and from within academia. Plus, the increasingly odd Dawkins is involved... I hae ma doots aboot the whole thing. Judicious article about it in the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/06/college-university-students |
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Post by bormes on Jun 19, 2011 15:26:57 GMT -1
Anything more happening on this Westie, or anyone?
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