I think this smacks of being something conjured up by one of those well-meaning people with a Classics degree who’ve done ok, but would probably have been fine anyway (i.e. mistaking classics for the reason why that was the case).

The mention of the ‘development of Western Civilisation’ is actually really worrying. It feels regressive. A programme like this could be great, but also… not at all. I say this as someone with three classics degrees who is in favour of Classics being available to students at every stage.

I find the whole article and especially the people promoting it nauseating

I'm not at any level opposed to Classics degrees (to the contrary) but it's the poverty of imagination here (and the naked, likely misguided instrumentality of the vision) that struck me. Is there really so very little scope available to enrich education in novel ways today?