Crowdfunded degrees: the perfect solution for Generation Sell Yourself

By Theo Merz.  Crowdfunded degrees mean further education could soon become the preserve of those who are loudly able to sell themselves rather than the quietly academic, writes Theo Merz.
Say you were offered a place on the Master’s course of your dreams, but couldn’t afford the £26,000 course costs. From there, you would have a choice: delay your studies for years and work to scrape the money together, or find a group of willing people to donate, which would allow you to start the Master’s immediately.
It was a choice outlined for us yesterday by Emily-Rose Eastop, the Oxford graduate who was accused of being “a posh brat” after setting up a crowdfunding campaign to cover her fees for an MA (again at Oxford) in cognitive and evolutionary anthropology. Read more...