The College Today
The Wye College campus was closed in September 2009 and Imperial College is seeking to develop the estate or to find suitable tenants for it. Most of the college farmland is currently leased to a former student of Wye College, a Mr Atwood, until 2019. Most of the buildings are still for rent as of May 2012 and an effort by Imperial to sell off Withersdane Hall was halted with council intervention. A proposal to restore the agricultural college, with accreditation from the University of Buckingham, was advanced in 2010, but would rely on Imperial releasing freehold buildings that it may still be trying to develop, and the University of Buckingham are no longer interested in the proposal. A proposal for a Wye Free School, initially with an entry of Year 7 students and leasing just some of the buildings, was received in 2012 by the Council and appears to be progressing. The loss of Wye College is still lamented by many as the facilities fall into disrepair.
Read more about this topic: Wye College
Famous quotes containing the words college and/or today:
“When first the college rolls receive his name,
The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;
Through all his veins the fever of renown
Burns from the strong contagion of the gown;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)