{"id":644,"date":"2011-06-12T15:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=644"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:07:32","slug":"9000-spendid-18000-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/12\/9000-spendid-18000-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a39000 Spendid \u2013 \u00a318000 Terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only this week's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/10583\/\">Spiked<\/a> that is wondering about all the bile that has been heaped on poor old AC Grayling's head over the last few days \u2013 just Google \"New College Grayling\" to see the wide-ranging abuse \u2013\u00a0I have managed a modest bit of puzzlement myself. \u00a0 I can understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.ox.ac.uk\">New College<\/a>, Oxford's being a bit miffed that there is to be a new 'New College (but only for the Humanities)' in the HE sector \u2013 imagine all that extra confusion it will cause for students already busy with Facebook, but why should anyone else get so upset? \u00a0I can't be the money, can it? \u00a0After all, it's not as if English HE is actually free any more (actually, it's never been free unless you conveniently forget the taxpayers' pockets out of which most money comes). \u00a0Sounds more like craven envy to me: just think, this institution won't have to listen to Hefce, Offa, or Vince Cable! \u00a0 And, whisper it gently, it might even be a success \u2013 what then? \u00a0Where would that leave the rest? \u00a0 I was pleased to see a bit of balance from the <a href=\"New College for the Humanities\">Guardian<\/a>. \u00a0For what it matters, I welcome any (much overdue) experimental innovation within the sector; just a pity the bursaries for really good students from non-conventional backgrounds seem, thus far, so skimpy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only this week's Spiked that is wondering about all the bile that has been heaped on poor old AC Grayling's head over the last few days \u2013 just Google \"New College Grayling\" to see the wide-ranging abuse...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}