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Oh Dear: Who needs science ?
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MilanBMilanB
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Media Studies is where all the action is these days. Anyway, these scientists, eh, what do they know? -
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That's what happens when a Scientist dares to disagree with a government department...
It won't happen again...Comment
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From the article:
Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), warned against getting into a "moral panic" when a university physics or chemistry department was threatened with closure, saying they were "19th-century" disciplines.Comment
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saying they were "19th-century" disciplines
Hell in a hand-basket, hell in a hand-basket.Comment
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This does not bode well for the youth of today does it? They are undereducated now without losing vital science subjects from the curricullum. Someone was saying the other day that at English A' Level now you are NOT marked down for bad spellingComment
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I agree
Agree with Numpty. It only makes me want to deepen my already technical education. In the coming years we will form an elite priesthood dispensing wisdom to the massesComment
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