Is Grayling’s New College a New Oxbridge?

“I have only just discovered that AC Grayling has plans to launch a new private university. I have to confess to some sympathy with this: if there is to be a sustained assault on the humanities, then maybe someone has to get off their ass and take the teaching into their own hands; and if there are to be more and more central demands from central government (many of them tick-box, but still hugely time-consuming), then maybe one simply has to set up a new show outside of all that silliness. But it’s when I see this New College headlined as a ‘New Oxbridge’ that I reach for my gun …” (more)

[Mary Beard, A Don’s Life, 5 June]

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