Friday, 6 September 2013

A broad, cultural education is vital to the health of a democratic society | Richard Taylor

 Balliol College, Oxford. 'It is not too fanciful to suggest that in the foreseeable future, only a handful of elite universities, notably Oxford and Cambridge, will be high-quality providers of arts and (non-applied) social studies degree programmes. This is a catastrophic prospect.'
The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) formally came into existence in 1903 and soon became a strong national presence. To understand whether it is still relevant in the 21st century, it is, as always,

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