According to the list on the college's website the "professoriate" whose names are being used to sell the college consists of
fourteen famous people, most of whom have not resigned from their current positions
This other Guardian article, meanwhile, reports:Dividing 110 by 14, we get that the average professor will teach ... fewer than 8 lectures per year. Nice work if you can get it. So the vaunted "one-on-one tutorials" will be taught by yet-unknown staff of uncertain contract status of whom there is no reason to believe that they will be more distinguished than the average normally-priced British university.
Also, to be filed under "you mean you shouldn't start a competitor to your current employer without authorization?", Birkbeck yesterday issued the following hilariously short-and-sweet
press release:
