Should Prince William Have Been Allowed A Place At Cambridge?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/31/william-at-cambridge-shame

[FredPuli43]

Had to be in the Guardian !

It's a short, bespoke, course, privately paid. He will not be claiming to be a graduate when he finishes. Sounds like a nice little earner for the college. Are such courses not available to others who can pay for them?

[jim360]

"Admitting Prince William is an insult to every student..." I beg to differ.

[youngmafbog]

No.

[boxtops]

Of course he should. He's paying for it, it's not as if he's depriving some 18-year-old of an undergraduate place on a 3-year degree course. All educational establishments generate income these days by selling course to bespoke clients.

[SeaJayPea]

Why not? It's being funded privately.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25552545

[Zeuhl]

He hasn't been 'granted a place at Cambridge'

It's just a 10 week course is run by CPSL, a separate fee charging institution within the school of Technology.

[boxtops]

Exactly, zeuhl.

[Canary42]

Why shouldn't the stinking rich be allowed to spend their money (gleaned from the taxpayer) on anything they like under a Tory Government.

[jim360]

Like a fair few Cambridge graduates, as can be seen in the comments section of the linked article, I'm almost more offended that this woman can have gone through a Cambridge degree and still construct such an awful argument at the end of it. The single most important fact, that Prince William hasn't been "allowed a place at Cambridge" in the way everyone means, is just brushed aside as irrelevant. How poor of her to ignore that. A ten-week professional course, with no formal entry qualifications and funded privately, is not the same in any way at all as a three- or four-year undergraduate degree. If he'd bought his way into a proper full-time University course, then I would certainly be annoyed. But he didn't so I'm not.

[woofgang]

jim, don't foreign students but their way into proper full time university courses?

[Gromit]

When Charles takes the throne, William will run the biscuit emporium...

http://www.ocado.com/catalog/images-hires/49562011_H.jpg?identifier=e34e7eb0c21a4e95026c6fae15677b7a


The Guardian news report is better than the snidey Op piece.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/30/prince-william-student-agriculture-cambridge-duchy-cornwall

[Bazile]

Well , she's going to find things ' difficult ' on her Masters course .

I can already hear those Dons being briefed

[jim360]

They also have to meet the entry requirements. All of the foreign students I met in my time were, frankly, better than I was. If they had to pay a rather higher price to get there, they also deserved it. Never saw a foreign student that wasn't also brilliant.

[jno]

yes, the Guardian's own readers seem to have deconstructed this article in short order.

"Privately paid" may be a tiny bit misleading, though. I wonder if in fact I'm paying for him?

[youngmafbog]

You can bet your bottom dollar you are in one way or another jno

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuli43

/// Had to be in the Guardian !///

Blimey Fred I bet you had to adjust your usual 'type set in a hurry', sorry I should have saved you the trouble and stuck to the more usual Daily Mail link.

[anotheoldgit]

Canary42

/// Why shouldn't the stinking rich be allowed to spend their money (gleaned from the taxpayer) on anything they like under a Tory Government. ///

And nothing like this would happen under a Labour government I presume?

Change the record.

[FredPuli43]

No, AOG, and if you can find some absurdity in The Times, I'll point that up too. Granted the Daily Mail provides more, because there is more misuse of journalistic devices and lot more dishonesty in its text, but I am catholic in my criticism.

[LazyGun]

Its a 10 week, privately paid management course. I see no earthly reason why he should not attend. Of course, if he was to go on and claim to be a graduate of cambridge or whatever, that might be a different matter.

No idea what the author of the article is thinking, at all. Seems poorly reasoned, to me.

[anotheoldgit]

/// The Guardian news report is better than the snidey Op piece. ///

Yes the paper that does know it's Surrey to it's Sussex.