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Jun. 7th, 2011 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafI have nothing very much to say about AC Grayling's proposed "New College of the Humanities", except that it sounds like a colossal rip-off* that won't get you anything you couldn't have got cheaper at the various colleges of the University of London, other than a extra few lectures by a bunch of ego-mad media dons, so I will merely record my amusement at Boris Johnson's take on the matter:
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, backed Grayling's idea, saying "it fully deserves to succeed and to be imitated".
It prompted him, Johnson added, to recall his own idea of founding "Reject's College, Oxbridge", which would be "aimed squarely at the wrathful parents – many of them Oxbridge graduates – who simply could not understand how their own offspring could rack up three A-stars and grade 8 bassoon, and yet find themselves turned down".
* Of students, and also of the University of London's investment in developing courses and syllabuses (with public money, one might add).
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, backed Grayling's idea, saying "it fully deserves to succeed and to be imitated".
It prompted him, Johnson added, to recall his own idea of founding "Reject's College, Oxbridge", which would be "aimed squarely at the wrathful parents – many of them Oxbridge graduates – who simply could not understand how their own offspring could rack up three A-stars and grade 8 bassoon, and yet find themselves turned down".
* Of students, and also of the University of London's investment in developing courses and syllabuses (with public money, one might add).