ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to set the achievements and insights of Nicholas Boyle alongside the current state of higher education and explores what words can the voice of Christian Humanism speak to the present day Academy. Clearly in the person and work of Nicholas Boyle Christian Humanism and higher education have been mutually enriching, and it is partly in recognition of that achievement that this collection is published. Nicholas Boyle has argued in his two books Who are we now? Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney and 2014: How to Survive the Next World Crisis for a recognition of the inescapable fact that people live in one world. Much of the anxiety within higher education about successive versions of the fees regime has focused on the potential reduction of students to the status of 'consumers'. The more they pay, it is suggested, the more they will feel like — or become — 'consumers'.
