In the wake of the furore over the New College of the Humanities (which will cost students 18,000 planned by AC Grayling and other such ‘luminaries’, the Guardian have asked four contributors what they believe higher education should look like and aim to achieve. I especially enjoyed this quote;
“While Grayling aims to teach people in the financial elite the skills to propagate a system in which investment banking and venture capitalism are considered the ultimate post-graduate jobs, the ideal university aims to teach students to practise and propagate the good life, horizontally and inter-generationally, for a sustainable egalitarian future.” – More here
