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Toto · 02-09-2010, 06:15 PM

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The decision by a London university to axe the UK's only chair in palaeography has been met by outrage from the world's most eminent classicists.

... From *September, the current holder of the chair, Professor David Ganz, will be out of a job, and the subject will no longer exist as a separate academic discipline in British universities. Its survival will now depend entirely on the whim of classicists and medievalists studying in other fields.

Facebook page: Save Palaeography At King's London

Celsus · 02-12-2010, 01:46 AM

Sad things are happening to the tertiary education system in the UK with all the cuts.

Some of it may be unavoidable, but all of it is very tragic.

Chaucer · 02-12-2010, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Celsus

Sad things are happening to the tertiary education system in the UK with all the cuts.

Some of it may be unavoidable, but all of it is very tragic.

I guess the world no longer needs real scholarship any more, now that everyone can just play scholar on the Net with a flick of the wrist and no training:-(

"Giving up on palaeography is like giving up on art, history and culture. It's like deciding we know all we want to know about the past, so we're not going to bother to find out any more: "It's not as if we can come back to it in 15 years' time if we then decide there's enough money," says Beard. "Palaeography can't be taught in an online tutorial; it's a skill handed down from one academic to another."

Chaucer

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Celsus Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Singapore Posts: 2,875	Sad things are happening to the tertiary education system in the UK with all the cuts. Some of it may be unavoidable, but all of it is very tragic.

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