tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425947044988938623.post1907861516354375562..comments2023-07-25T05:25:24.882-07:00Comments on future thoughts: Symbols and Scholarsbooneryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11462594519638838908noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425947044988938623.post-76378012858938165192010-07-07T02:22:36.595-07:002010-07-07T02:22:36.595-07:00Professor Palmowski' studies of the German Dem...Professor Palmowski' studies of the German Democratic Republic seems to have influenced his managerial techniquesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425947044988938623.post-76661635293167937532010-06-30T14:41:46.050-07:002010-06-30T14:41:46.050-07:00Today the working group on Palaeography reports. N...Today the working group on Palaeography reports. No History Department members, except for the Department Chair, who knows nothing about Medieval History. No attempt to reply to the House of Commons Early Day Motion protesting this cut. Anonymous is right to quesion why Profesor Palmowski is allowed to run Medieval Studies. But he will remain arrogantly silent I guess. and his cronies will back him to the hilt. <br />You could have explored the deal done with the IHR to glorify Sir Rick Tranor and the King's History Department, so long as they crush Palaeography. Strange that the king's website pretends that the courses will allrun normally, no doubt in order to attract and plunder rich overseas students. I am sorry I was silly enough to do an MA at a College so indifferent to Medieval History, as opposed to glorious grants for self promotion.King's College History MA Studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425947044988938623.post-34847108971225882612010-06-29T04:39:18.895-07:002010-06-29T04:39:18.895-07:00Remarkable that at King's College neither Prof...Remarkable that at King's College neither Professor Trainor, Professor Hoggart or Professor Palmowski are prepared to comment on this. And equally remarkable that the King's College medieval historians, eager to appear on television and to explain the fall of the Roman empire, are as silent as the 3 monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil and certainly speak no evil. What deal have they cut? Are they happy to have Medieval Studies at their college run by an expert on postwar East Germany?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425947044988938623.post-18624353354231752842010-06-27T23:40:40.069-07:002010-06-27T23:40:40.069-07:00Just a few remarks from an outsider (who still thi...Just a few remarks from an outsider (who still thinks that KCL's behaviour concerning their palaeography chair are, well, rather unwise):<br /><br />1. Britain is not isolated, but exists in a world where Britain's competitors do not cut but do increase their spending on education (including higher education). Cuts in higher education would result in a shrinking ability to compete in a world where there are apparently just 3 types of key resources: minerals, cheap labour, a competent labour force. As Britain can't increase their minerals cuttings in higher education would necessarily result in less economic wealth p.c. (cheaper labour).<br /><br />2. Increasing tuition fees is not a good idea. It would result in a better education for a smaller percentage of the labour force.<br /><br />3. IMO the "sliding down a mountain" is a dangerous simile, as it might destroy part of the optimism and will needed to avoid "sliding down a mountain". The Bavarian universities have been hit by cuts and proposed cuts several years ago. Protests and negotiations resulted in a situation where at least some of our humanities departments are now better off than before.<br /><br />4. I doubt that military metaphors ("a battle that has yet to be won") are useful in the analysis of what I perceive as a civilians' problem: how to spend the citizens' money so that the citizens can live in the sort of a commonwealth they want to live in.Heinrich C. Kuhnhttp://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/W4RF/YaBB.plnoreply@blogger.com