Maybe a little research about context is in order.
I just googled "Kingsley Amis" and "workshop" and near the top of the list was an Amazon review of the novel "Jake's Thing," (published 1978) which contains the quote in this form: ""If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's 'Workshop.' After 'Youth,' that is." It's not spoken by Amis in propria persona, but by his character Jake, who is in a psychiatric encounter group for what we would now call erectile disfunction.
Did Amis have MFA programs in mind? No, because they barely existed* at the time and he was talking about something else entirely. The quote is simply an introductory-paragraph gimmick.
I'm still curious about the substance of the TNC article, though. I do think an actual program might have more rigor and completeness than what we do here, and I'd like to steal syllabi and book lists.*
*Having read the article, I stand slightly corrected: there were 35 in 1975.
*The article mostly laments uselessness, incestuousness, and oversupply.
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