NCH New College of the Humanities .org WTF!!! New College (NewCollegeH) sur Twitter. New College of the Humanities. NCH charges students annual fees of £18,000, twice the maximum fee publicly funded universities in England may charge domestic students from 2012, with its charitable trust aiming to provide "almost 30%" of NCH students assisted places in the first year.[8][9] In addition to Grayling, 13 senior academics have been named as partners, including the biologist Richard Dawkins.[10] The college's advisory board includes Zeinab Badawi of the BBC, Ian Rumfitt of Birkbeck College, and the heads of one state and four independent schools.[11] The announcement attracted a substantial response in the UK, and a significant amount of adverse publicity, where most higher education institutions are publicly funded. London's mayor, Boris Johnson, welcomed it as a bold experiment, while The Times argued that higher education has been a closed shop in the UK for too long.[12] There was an angry reaction from sections of the academic community.
Background[edit] Origins[edit] A.C. Funding and governance[edit] A. C. Grayling. Anthony Clifford "A. C. " Grayling (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. Early life and education[edit] Grayling was the third sibling. After moving to England in his teens, he spent three years at the University of Sussex, but said that although he applauded their intention to educate generalists, he wished to be a scholar, so in addition to his BA from Sussex, he also completed one in philosophy as a University of London external student.[5] He went on to obtain an MA from Sussex, then attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was taught by P.
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The 'gold standard' of Grayling is not struck from an Oxbridge mint. New College of the Humanities' pedagogic model has only a passing resemblance to the ancient universities' teaching, argues Julia Horn A.C. Grayling's New College of the Humanities will soon open its doors to its first cohort of students. In advance publicity, students have been promised "one-to-one tutorials each week", in a move that the media have quickly relabelled "Oxbridge-style tutorials". The college has been attacked from many quarters by those who oppose the principle of private higher education. Yet the claims about one-to-one tutorials, the comparisons with Oxbridge and Grayling's argument that "what's important about a degree is how it is taught and who it is taught by" have barely raised an eyebrow.
Its website says: "One-to-one tutorials are becoming a rarity in UK higher education, but they are central to the NCH approach. I would suggest that students at the college are going to experience something quite different from an Oxbridge-style tutorial system. BBC: British academics launch private university in London. 5 June 2011Last updated at 17:28 The 14 professors behind the project include evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins A private college in England aiming to rival Oxford and Cambridge is being launched by leading academics.
The New College of the Humanities says it will teach "gifted" undergraduates and prepare them for degrees from the University of London. The privately-owned London-based college will open in September 2012 and is planning to charge fees of £18,000. The 14 professors involved include biologist Richard Dawkins and historian Sir David Cannadine. Professor Dawkins is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, as well as being the author of The God Delusion, and Sir David is a professor at Princeton University in the United States. Based in Bloomsbury, central London, the new college says it will offer eight undergraduate courses in the humanities taught by some of the world's most prominent academics. 'New model' 'Entrench inequality' New university to rival Oxbridge will charge 18,000 a year. AC Grayling's private university accused of copying syllabuses.
A new private university college founded by the philosopher AC Grayling and staffed by celebrity professors will teach exactly the same syllabuses as the University of London, which charges half the price, it has emerged. Students of the New College of the Humanities will pay £18,000 a year to take courses in history, English literature and philosophy that are already on offer at Birkbeck, Goldsmiths and Royal Holloway for £9,000 or less. Academics complained that syllabuses listed on the New College website appeared to have been copied from the University of London's own web pages in a move some said amounted to plagiarism. Grayling claimed it would help save humanities education from cuts by bringing together teachers including Richard Dawkins, Niall Ferguson and Stephen Pinker. "Here we have a whole degree programme being plagiarised. I feel quite insulted because I wrote a lot of the syllabus.
The syllabus for the literature and historydegrees is also identical. Guardian: Universities are not there to spoon-feed | AC Grayling. Both the National Union of Students and Lord Mandelson, whose ministerial brief includes higher education, are making an issue of the number of "contact hours" between faculty and students, especially in the arts and humanities. It appears that Lord Mandelson wishes universities to market themselves along the lines of commercial organisations, now that students have to pay more out of their own pockets for their education.
Accordingly, he wishes universities to compete with each other, among other things, over the amount of time they offer students. The assumption that lies behind the contact hours issue is a deeply mistaken one. It is that universities are a simple extension of school, and that as at school, students should be given as much attention as possible. University is emphatically not about spoon-feeding and hand-holding through courses, but the very opposite. It is not about maximising contact hours, but about autonomy in thinking, researching and writing. NCH « Critical Education. Amcgettigan : @GuyAitchison did you see my... NCH – new company structure « Critical Education. Something bugs me about Anthony Grayling and the way he presents New College of the Humanities. Nothing is ever quite as it seems. When the original company, Grayling Hall, was founded as a company limited by share back in July 2010 (note the date, before the Browne review was published) Grayling was one of two shareholders: the other was Peter Hall a strong opponent of public services who had previously sponsored David Willetts when he was in opposition.
Grayling Hall changed its name to New College of the Humanities Limited before the college was launched last summer. By far the largest shareholders, over 30 per cent of the company, are the Swiss family Ebstein who run the venture capital firm Meru AG based in Lucerne. They go unmentioned on the NCH website. Private equity and venture capital is well served on the board Many of the illustrious associated professors also took shares in this company, which is a profit-distributing entity. Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities. Much ink has already been spilled to condemn and defend the establishment of the New College of the Humanities (NCH), announced earlier this month by its founder A.C.
Grayling. On the whole, position-taking has formed along predictable fault lines between the aptly-named ‘idiocies’ of state bureaucracy and the inequities of private ‘freedom’, the virtues and evils of public and private universities, and the politics of elite and mass education. Beyond this, debate seems to be focusing on exposing the gory details of how NCH would actually work – its physical home and use of existing public resources, its for-profit or charitable status, its fiscal links with conservative interests, how often famous academics are likely to be teaching, whether £18,000 accurately reflects the cost of educating a person, whether individualised tuition is really synonymous with intellectual rigour, and so on. No doubt these debates will continue. What are the points that we must concede? First accounts for New College of the Humanities | Critical Education andrew mcgettigan.
New College of the Humanities limited and its for-profit owner, Tertiary Education Services limited, have just published their first sets of annual accounts. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these are abbreviated: each set comprises only a balance sheet for 30 November 2012 and a very short set of accompanying notes. The information available is therefore much less than with an established university or company where the shares are publicly traded. What can be gleaned is that the parent, Tertiary Education Services, has run a deficit of £4.3million – turnover and expenditure are not disclosed – since its launch. It is supported by share issues that had raised £7.35million in investment by last November. Its latest reported capital structure (August 2013) shows that 146 500 shares have been distributed, each with a nominal value of £1. Some of the shares were purchased at a £111 premium, which leads me to include that current investment has reached about £10million.
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