No confidence in David Willetts

[Sassie'sDad]

Oxford Academics and students are encouraging other universities across the country to do the same through a website –

http://www.noconfidence.org.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Marylou]

Count me in!

[stevew61]

Oxford Academics and students are encouraging other universities across the country to do the same through a website –

http://www.noconfidence.org.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No names on the website, all very anonymous, I'm getting a bit fed up with hidden campaigners.

So let's do some web searching.

http://www.whois.net/whois/noconfidence.org.uk.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Registrant Name: Registrant Name:David Le Brocquy


http://www.plaxo.com/profile/show/47246 ... 1374efa944" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Work/Education
Work Experience
VISION Consulting / Dircetor
1992 - Present
Education
Trinity College Dublin
Economics & Administration, 1980



http://vision.com/about/people.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Now then Mr Le Brocquy, what were you saying?

[Marylou]

Some Oxford names behind the campaign quoted here:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/s ... 416355&c=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Looking for help]

Thanks MaryLou, I have added my name now Oooh not that I went to Oxford or anything

[Marylou]

Thanks MaryLou, I have added my name now Oooh not that I went to Oxford or anything

That's the point - the aim is to take the no-confidence campaign outside the dreaming spires of Oxford and whatever the equivalent is in Cambridge...

[ourmaminhavana]

Thanks, that's me signed up.

[Sassie'sDad]

David Willetts's former tutor says: 'I have no confidence in him'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011 ... confidence" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Oppenheimer said he believed a sector of the university system – Oxford, Cambridge and "two or three others" – should be allowed to opt out of government regulation and to develop "like the Ivy League universities in America". That way, he said, they would be able to charge their own fees and be "far more effective in promoting fairness and access and redistribution"."

[Sassie'sDad]

AC Grayling, a professor of philosophy at the universities of London and Oxford, will welcome next year the first students to the New College of the Humanities to study for degrees in English, philosophy, history, economics and law taught by academics from Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge.

There is a starry lineup of professorial talent: Richard Dawkins will teach evolutionary biology and science literacy; Niall Ferguson will lecture on economics and economic history; and Steven Pinker will teach philosophy and psychology.

Inspired in part by the business model of American Ivy League universities where $40,000 (£24,000) annual fees are not unusual, New College will cost double the maximum tuition fee allowed in government-funded universities. It is set up to deliver a profit to its shareholders who include the professors and a team of wealthy businessmen who have bankrolled the plan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 ... g-ferguson" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Marylou]

NCH - an interesting development! Yet for all their promises of financial assistance etc. I won't be surprised if ordinary, modestly-earning, hard-working families, especially those with several children, will be excluded since, as usual, they won't qualify for any means-tested scholarships or concessions despite being unable to afford such fees. Why are these things never calculated on a sliding scale?