Anybody appying to New College Of the Humanities?

Only because it out of their league. Feeble subjects for feeble minds.

Tbh it is sad that they didn't see the opportunity to make another normal-fee addition to the London colleges. They could of bought up the Bedford square buildings, filled them with a college specialising in humanities (the humanities version of Imperial) and called it New College London (that's a nice name) which would give out the usual London degree (possibly moving onto it's own degree awarding powers if it builds its rep enough) Result, prestigious uni with a nice little campus and it would take the strain off the other colleges (which are heavily oversubscribed)

Smoke, mirrors and a swishy hairstyle.

And those magic knickers disguising all the flabby bits.

Now that's an image that I really could have done without.

They did think of it - it's called the London School of Economics and Political Science. Admittedly they don't do the arts, like Literature and stuff.

If you're gonna make a point make sure it's a valid point.

I say: there should be a college that specialises in humanities

Smart guy (you) says: oh but the London school of economics specialises in humanities......................well a small part of the humanities


It's like me saying there needs to be a science university somewhere and you say "oh there is one...................but it only does medical science"

Please tell me what the humanities are. A comprehensive list please. Then compare them with the LSE 'index of courses' list. Taking into account joint courses, they cover most things. They lack Literature and Theology, but pretty much everything else is covered between LSE and SOAS, leaving very few humanities that the UoL hasn't provided specialist centres for, and I'm sure they have good reasons for that, related to funding, numbers, staffing or something else.

You're the boy who sees and says the thing that everyone else is avoiding saying.

Please tell me what the humanities are. A comprehensive list please. Then compare them with the LSE 'index of courses' list. Taking into account joint courses, they cover most things. They lack Literature and Theology, but pretty much everything else is covered between LSE and SOAS, leaving very few humanities that the UoL hasn't provided specialist centres for, and I'm sure they have good reasons for that, related to funding, numbers, staffing or something else.

Literature/Art surely are cornerstones of the study of humanities? Literature not being offered is not '1 out of 100 courses', it's something like 25% of humanities I feel.

Furthermore, I find Philosophy offering at LSE highly lacking - mainly due to the fact they do not want to be particularly humanities-focused but more social sciences. They do have a Philosophy course but it is of limited breadth with heavy focus on science and links between philosophy and social sciences such as economics and politics.

I do really find the idea of a separate college for humanities refreshing in a time when everyone is going on about 'employability' and 'transferable skills' - and UoL, while indeed having a fair amount of humanities courses, is still lacking in two major areas.

The NCH project, however, does not appear too successful - I wish someone actually set up a LSE-equivalent with a humanities, as opposed to social sciences, focus.

Only because it out of their league. Feeble subjects for feeble minds.

When did Economics become a feeble subject.

I would agree that LSE and SOAS cannot be considered to represent all of the humanities, and obviously Literature and Art are major sections of this broad category of disciplines. But that wasn't really my point. I was responding to the notion that nobody in the Education Ministry or the University of London has thought this through over the years. There will be a host of reasons why it would be difficult to have an institution that represented every humanity and excelled in teaching and in researching virtually all of them. LSE and SOAS (and obviously UCL) together cover a lot of subjects and have a lot of students. Perhaps the costs of creating a new university of humanities would not justify the increase in places it would bring, and perhaps there aren't enough potential teaching staff in the UK that could provide it with that high reputation. Furthermore, universities in this country are state-run, and it's possible that expanding places at Oxbridge, Durham and elsewhere is on the Ministry's mind more than it is to create a new branch of UoL all together.