Until London's New College of the Humanities opened in 2012, in what county town, since 1983, was the UK's only private university?
New College of the Humanities students have access to the University's facilities, including Senate House Library and Student Central. It block-books rooms for its first-year students with student accommodation providers in Bloomsbury, Westminster, St Pancras and Tufnell Park. NCH has offered classes since October 2012, its annual fees are £9,250. Grayling said he had received 900 expressions of interest from potential students and 80 job applications in the first week. Britain's former prime minister, Tony Blair, endorsed it; and London's mayor, Boris Johnson, called it the boldest experiment in higher education in the UK since the foundation in 1983 of the University of Buckingham, the
New College of the Humanities New College of the Humanities New College of the Humanities (NCH), legally Tertiary Education Services Ltd, is an independent, primarily undergraduate and master's degree college in London, England, UK, founded by the philosopher A. C. Grayling, who became its first Master. In November 2018, Northeastern University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, announced its intention to acquire the New College of the Humanities. The deal is pending regulatory approval. In 2016 two University of London academic awards were given to NCH London students, including the Sir Charles Harris award. In 2015 New College of the Humanities won the