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Three Cheers for the Ramsay Centre
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Davies, Martin – Australian Universities' Review, 2019
In 2018 Australia's leading national university, the Austrailian National University (ANU), decided to break off consultation with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation over a bequest to fund a course on Western civilisation. It is not every day that a university decides to turn down a $3 billion bequest to fund a humanities program (Groch,…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, College Curriculum
The Ramsay Centre and 'Western Civilisation': An attempt at Historical Perspective. A Reaction to Martin Davies' Paper
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Bonnell, Andrew G. – Australian Universities' Review, 2019
Martin Davies' paper seeks to vindicate the efforts of the Ramsay Centre to fund courses in 'Western Civilisation' at selected Australian universities. He begins by lamenting the rejection of vast amounts of philanthropic money for the humanities, and all too quickly dismisses the stated grounds for the Australian National University's decision to…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Philanthropic Foundations, Western Civilization