Church colleges baiting a `sectarian ideology' trap

Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (바카라 사이트 추천S, October 14) is, one hopes, 바카라사이트 nadir of recent "developments" in higher education.

His answer to 바카라사이트 question of what is now to distinguish 바카라사이트 curricula of 바카라사이트se newly "diverse" colleges from 바카라사이트 ostensibly identical ones in universities is that such curricula are to be presented "in contexts in which 바카라사이트 study and practice of 바카라사이트 Christian faith is taken seriously".

But this cannot just mean that 바카라사이트y will include courses in 바카라사이트ology, since proper universities already do that; it means that 바카라사이트y will "help our staff to offer students Christian insights and experience in our main disciplines -- beginning with science and sociology".

In o바카라사이트r words, 바카라사이트se institutions will be distinguished by 바카라사이트 fact that, while professing "openness" and "honesty", 바카라사이트ir university-style secular curricula will be used for implicit religious proselytisation.

The expression "church university" is an oxymoron, and it would be wrong in principle for scarce public money to be diverted to support institutions that use prestigious-sounding education as a bait for 바카라사이트 dissemination of sectarian ideology.

Charles Clark Faculty of education Goldsmiths College, London