War on the humanities? What war?
Posted: 8 April, 2015 Filed under: Culture, Engineering, Getting it wrong, Mathematics, Politics, Science, Universities | Tags: campaign for the public university, convention for higher education, Council for the Defence of British Universities, culture, engineering, enlightenment, getting it wrong, philistinism, sarah churchwell, science, technology, universities, university teaching, vice-chancellors 2 CommentsAfter I wrote a response to Professor Sarah Churchwell’s comments on the `war on the humanities’, she tweeted that if I wanted her opinion, it could be found in a piece on The Conversation, and represented a better statement of her views than a ten sentence extract from a ninety minute interview. I was not the only person to object to the comments as reported, whether in comments on the article, or in the letters page, but it seems only fair to engage with a full statement of the position.
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