A.C. Grayling's new academy in London, set to charge twice the government-approved limit, of £18,000 a year tuition to students, has been accused of copying the syllabus of another university, down to very specific elements of modules written by lecturers in no way connected to the new cash cow...
THAT HANDSOME MAN A PERSONAL BRIEF REVIEW BY TODD SWIFT I could lie and claim Larkin, Yeats , or Dylan Thomas most excited me as a young poet, or even Pound or FT Prince - but the truth be told, it was Thom Gunn I first and most loved when I was young. Precisely, I fell in love with his first two collections, written under a formalist, Elizabethan ( Fulke Greville mainly), Yvor Winters triad of influences - uniquely fused with an interest in homerotica, pop culture ( Brando, Elvis , motorcycles). His best poem 'On The Move' is oddly presented here without the quote that began it usually - Man, you gotta go - which I loved. Gunn was - and remains - so thrilling, to me at least, because so odd. His elegance, poise, and intelligence is all about display, about surface - but the surface of a panther, who ripples with strength beneath the skin. With Gunn, you dressed to have sex. Or so I thought. Because I was queer (I maintain the right to lay claim to that
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If true, this just confirms that the whole enterprise is a complete waste of money. They aren't even offering an original syllabus. Grayling says that his new academy reflects the 'true cost' of a university education. Maybe it does but most people never want to know the 'true cost' of anything. They just want to obtain things as economically as possible.
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