tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425947044988938623.post2416217761961286074..comments2023-07-25T05:25:24.882-07:00Comments on future thoughts: On Statementsbooneryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11462594519638838908noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425947044988938623.post-58105881595916201292010-07-09T05:34:05.353-07:002010-07-09T05:34:05.353-07:00Excellent analysis! Especially intriguing are the ...Excellent analysis! Especially intriguing are the potential legal ramifications of what is a characteristically petulant statement by KCL senior management. You'd have though becoming 'Sir' Rick Trainor would have cheered him up, but there you go...<br /><br />I do so love KCL's announcement:<br />http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?news_id=1408&year=2010<br /><br />STATEMENT:<br />"The Palaeography Working Group, formed in March 2010 to advise on the future of Palaeography at the College..."<br /><br />TRANSLATION:<br />The Palaeography Working Group, formed in March 2010 as a desperate rearguard action against the worldwide opprobrium being heaped in spades upon our heads as a result of our inept decision to axe Palaeography...<br /><br />STATEMENT:<br />"...has made its recommendations. The College welcomes this as a fine piece of work that sets out a creative and convincing intellectual case for ongoing support for the discipline at King’s."<br /><br />TRANSLATION:<br />Please stop calling us incompetent bean-counting philistines who wouldn't know what constituted respected academic research if it won a Nobel Prize and kicked us in the shins! We've always loved Palaeography, even though we haven't a clue what it means...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com