I’ve been appointed subject convenor and Senior Lecturer for history at New College of the Humanities.
Today, on 5 June 2011, in the press – see The Sunday Times – Professor AC Grayling and a group of world-leading academics announce the launch of New College of the Humanities (NCH), a first-class independent university college, based in Bloomsbury in central London.
Fourteen leading professors will lecture at the university and they include, for history, Professor Sir David Cannadine, Professor Linda Colley, and Professor Niall Ferguson.
It is a new model for humanities in the UK and seeks to protect the humanities, which are likely to be under threat in coming years. It also values teaching: in the first year, students will have 12-13 contact hours a week, including two tutorials, one of which will be one-to-one.
NCH will initially offer eight degrees, with major and minor pairings in Law, Economics, History, Philosophy, and Literature.
NCH will admit its first undergraduates in October 2012, and is immediately open to applications. It is a paid model combining scholarships and tuition fees. The fees are £18,000 a year, or £6,000 a term (for both UK and international students). NCH will also offer 50 assisted places in the first year (more than 20% of the year’s intake), which will be a mixture of 100% scholarships, which will be means-tested, and exhibitions, where the student will pay only £7,200 a year – a fee lower than almost all UK universities.
For more details, see www.nchum.org or Twitter @NewCollegeH.
For news reports, see
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Education/article641692.ece
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13659394