Bloomsbury new élitism

Published: 9 June, 2011

• I WAS not surprised to see that people are up in arms about AC Grayling’s plans for an élitist humanities university in Bloomsbury, although when his opponents deployed smokebombs on Tuesday to disrupt a talk by him I did not think this is the way to promote a free education system. 

That’s not my cup of tea at all.

Nor was the statement by Labour’s university spokesman who commended Grayling’s plan as a “private inititiative to drive new investment in arts, humanities and social science courses”.

This is not the way to defend our education system.

At a time when the gaps in society between the richest and the poorest are ever widening this feels like another backwards step towards inequality.

JIM JEPPS
Walker House, NW1