Northeastern University London

New College of the Humanities

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Does this mean that the degree you receive and thus your qualification will be form UoL? Why would you pay £18k a year when you're not even going to have a prestigious name on your CV? :s-smilie:

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Reply 81

Vinchenko

Original post by Noodlzzz

The whole 'inferior to oxbridge' thing, in terms of grades they're asking for at least AAA. That's more than any of the other unis where LSE, Durham, UCL etc. have ABB, BBB etc. courses.

Not for the select few courses NC is offering, they don't. (I'm sure you might be able to find one exception, but e.g. LSE asks for A*AA for Law now)

Reply 82

Noodlzzz

Original post by Vinchenko

Not for the select few courses NC is offering, they don't. (I'm sure you might be able to find one exception, but e.g. LSE asks for A*AA for Law now)

Ok yeah I guess the courses they are offering are all the AAA, A*AA ones anyway regardless of where, point taken :smile:

Reply 83

dreadnaut

Original post by evantej

An economics postgraduate addressed this issue in another thread.

That was exactly what I was thinking!

I'm sure he's a good historian. He is/was a professor at Princeton, but the guy really doesn't know how to pick his fights. Some of the views I've heard him comeout with are really outdated when it comes to macroeconomics, yet he chooses slanging matches with the big cheeses of the field.

His series the ascent of money was really good I thought though

Will be very interesting to see how many potential undergrads will be applying

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Reply 84

Harry S Truman

Serious question guys: Is it too late to be released from my Cambridge offer so I can apply to this untested piece of **** and learn science literacy from Richard Dawkins?

Reply 85

Cold

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13659394

apparently they will be teaching humnities subjects; Law, Economics, English, History etc...

thoughts?

Good luck!

18,000 a year?

proves that they don't really care about education, and instead their wallet

18k a year though seriously get out of town ahah

Reply 88

Cold

Original post by Vazzyb

Good luck!

give it a couple of years and it will have a better rep than oxbridge and being credited with a university of london degree is amazing in its own right... i think they are on to something much bigger than Oxbridge, (well certainly oxford anyway)

Reply 89

jacketpotato

Original post by evantej

They are all professors because of academic talent. This has led to some of them to working in high-publicity domains; the former had to come before the latter.

Anyway, it is a win-win situation for the college. Lots of undergraduate students go to prestigious universities, say Oxford, without any clue why they are prestigious (i.e. Professor X is a specialist in subject Y), but this will not be the case with NCH.

I'm not saying they don't have talent. My point is that Grayling and Dawkins are not necessarily the best in their field (indeed Dawkins is famous for popular books and TV stints outside his field). The way Dawkins and Grayling have been put forward as main attractions makes me think this might be as much about celebrity as about academics.

Reply 90

georgeflynn

Original post by b_white

Or maybe £18,000 a year because they DO care about education standards and not political correctness

education should be about the ability to learn not the ability to pay

gtfo

lol humanities

I'll take my hats off to them if this is a successful venture. I'm all for it as long as there is demand. To think, at it's best it will create a small, specialised school of well-connected people that will strive for academic excellence while rivalling the best academic institutions in the world. It could raise the profile of the humanities too. On the other hand I really don't know whether there is a market, mind you private institutions like Regents exist... Also they should pay for their use of UoL facilities.

Reply 93

Markleberry

I can't find anything that says who'll be teaching economics - anyone know?

Reply 94

7589200

Original post by Cold

yeah defos

Reply 95

Waldhexe

Original post by Cold

Ha, of course in a couple of years it will totally have a better reputation institutions which have been teaching for hundreds of years. Places which have produced Nobel prize winners, statesmen, artists, actors, and even saints for goodness' sake...

Please understand I'm not denying this will likely grow to be a successful and reputable university/college. But to predict it will very soon outstrip the some of the top universities in the world seems overly optimistic. Then there is of course the issue that it will be far less accessible than supposedly elite Oxford and Cambridge due to its exorbitant fees.

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Reply 96

MathematicsKiller

Why don't people try to advance technology by focusing on the sciences rather than complicating our social problems by training a bunch of sociologist, lawyers and whatnot.

It's bad enough that lawyers are advertising on television *in case* you have an injury. ¬¬

Reply 97

morecambebay

http://educationactivistnetwork.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/letter-to-a-c-grayling-and-birkbeck-master/

There seems to be some disagreement over exactly what facilities they have access to. The master of birckbeck has denied having an agreement with them.