Mike Grimshaw: Death to the BA… Let’s try a new Arts degree.

Let’s be clear: Something is not right in the world of the BA and hasn’t been for a number of years. It could be who is teaching into the BA and the way it has become, too often, a degree of demanded, very limited ‘right-on’ orthodoxy in thinking and expression. It could be the limitations of many students who decide to do the BA and then, because of fears of funding cuts if numbers drop, are allowed to progress, often with inflated grades, in a number of departments, rather than being told that, for a number of reasons, they should not be at university.