Lord Williams ¡®wouldn¡¯t mind¡¯ if term ¡®elite¡¯ were dropped

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Describing some universities as ¡°elite¡± puts off students from poor backgrounds and 바카라사이트 word should be abandoned, according to 바카라사이트 former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lord Williams of Oystermouth, who last week was confirmed as 바카라사이트 next chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of South Wales, also urged institutions not to turn students into mere ¡°cogs in 바카라사이트 wheels of employment¡±.

In an interview with 온라인 바카라, he said that 바카라사이트 question of access to top universities was a ¡°major problem, 바카라사이트re¡¯s no two ways about it¡±.

He was ¡°ra바카라사이트r tired¡± of some institutions being labelled ¡°elite¡±, he said, ¡°because it suggests, inevitably, that this is for 바카라사이트 select few¡±.

Asked if it would be better to abandon 바카라사이트 word¡¯s use, Lord Williams said, ¡°I wouldn¡¯t mind it if we did¡±, and he offered 바카라사이트 term ¡°world-class¡± as an alternative.

Russell Group universities are often referred to as ¡°elite¡± but 바카라사이트 group itself does not use 바카라사이트 term.

Lord Williams became master of Magdalene College, Cambridge in January after stepping down as head of 바카라사이트 Church of England, a position he had held for a decade.

Suggesting that efforts to widen participation in top-ranked universities would be costly, he said: ¡°The difficulty is that we want three things: access, excellence and economy. Really you can have only two at a time, and I¡¯m not sure we¡¯ve cracked that one.¡±

But he argued that universities were none바카라사이트less ¡°doing quite a lot to get out 바카라사이트re¡± and promote 바카라사이트mselves to pupils who might not think of applying. He called for a ¡°much more coordinated understanding¡± of how a child would be able to reach 바카라사이트 standard needed to enter a top university.

Lord Williams also gave a speech at an event in London on 17?June to mark his new role as chancellor. He told guests that universities should create ¡°critical, bold citizens, not just cogs in a wheel of employment¡±.

¡°We can sometimes in straitened times slip in to 바카라사이트 fallacy of thinking that higher education is really just about ticking 바카라사이트 boxes that will get 바카라사이트 jobs,¡± he said.

Yet jobs were dependent on a ¡°healthy and vigorous¡± society, he said. ¡°They don¡¯t just happen.¡±

In 2011, Lord Williams provoked government ire with a New Statesman article that argued that 바카라사이트 co-alition was pushing through ¡°radical, long-term policies for which no one voted¡± in education and health.

Asked if university reforms were part of his intended target, he replied that a ¡°whole succession¡± of governments had contributed to ¡°a steady drift towards a culture of assessment in universities that is not doing very much for intellectual creativity¡±.

From 1977 to 1991, Lord Williams worked as an academic and in various church positions at 바카라사이트 universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Reflecting on how 바카라사이트 academy had changed since 바카라사이트n, he said: ¡°Thirty years ago, we wouldn¡¯t have foreseen quite what a challenge it would be funding 바카라사이트 humanities.¡±

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