In defence of Middlesex University | Suzanne Moore, Lorraine Gamman and Janet Lee

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is to become the institution of higher education the most expensive in England. Can it really offer more than Oxbridge? Guardian columnist

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According to the Guide to Good Times University, Middlesex University is to become the most expensive means of the student seeking a degree all the honors Pay £ 8.602, £ 7.549 £ Compare with 8034 Oxford and Cambridge. Why people should be surprised that purpose of education from the University Middlesex year could be as much as the year Oxbridge education? Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore, a professor of Lorraine Gamman of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and Janet Lee, editor of Salon de la Culture, Middlesex Polytechnic are all graduates who have received grants to study:

Suzanne Moore: I gave everything Middlesex happened because I had a grant

When I started working people in the newspapers

kept asking me what college I was. Then reeled off a list of colleges of Oxbridge Theys and when I said, "Middlesex Poly" They could not or would not listen. "Well," said one editor now very famous, "It probably why you have such an extraordinary year for the world. "

effect. What could I have learned Eventually it? I often wonder, as I am now half surrounded by the products of the best schools and colleges that seem best to know a lot about the history and the dates and more enjoyable than I have accents and are extremely charming.

I arrived in my 20 years at the Middlesex Poly as the goldsmiths did not let me in, I had no A-levels dropping out of school with 16. I read non-stop, had been round the world, and had loads of jobs. I took some Bolivian textile in the interview and ranted on about Eduardo Galeano and Mark. Theys took me anyway.

we work hard. We read everything in the original or if it was Freud Levi-Strauss. I Was pierced by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, wearing Doc Martens objective Poststructuralism If we get straight off the press. And Barry Curtis, who made us understand what was important to working-class experience. When I got pregnant with my second year, Lon Fleming, a prominent anthropologist, said: "Bring the baby What do you think would happen in other cultures.?" The idea that I would have entered his head not never stop so I did not. I went to a doctorate (Theories of Pleasure, natch) but I never finished until the money ran out. Gave me a Ph.D. Honorary Theys few years ago I would like to end my goal yet true one day.

• The point is, Middlesex Poly has given me everything - friends that I still have a sense of culture as politics, freedom of thought - happened because I had a grant. Because the barriers for my generation have been disappointed. We knew we were lucky. We are the success stories.

I learned

the wits to think for myself. To the question, and yes, subject to Oxbridge notions of excellence. I know people look at my studies because their nose does not belong to the institution. Well, this is the institution with moral and intellectual superiority ICT (?) Who governs this month now and although it is not educating people like me. I never Enjoy the Oxbridge contacts that gives you. I just connected on my own ability to chaos. You see, Middlesex Polyversity, as I like to call it, I taught critical thinking.

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