May 25, 2004

Wolverhampton and Bolton, centres of the philosophical world

Writing about web page http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2004/table/0,14557,1216869,00.html

Now i don't want to put down our poorer relations, but i can't imagine any possible world in which Wolverhampton and Bolton could have better philosophy departments than Warwick. And yet that's exactly what the Guardian's league tables claim. Wolverhapton even beats the LSE and Kings!

Does this prove that such systems of assessment are complete nonsense?


Robert O'Toole : 25 May 2004 20:20 |  Comments (2) |  Report a problem

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  1. On the flip side of the coin, they rated Warwick's politics department far higher than the Times did. I think it may well be a case of "you win some, you lose some.

    25 May 2004, 23:18

  2. Robert O'Toole

    No, i think they might be correct. After all, we offer sophisticated but irrelevant courses in Symbolic Logic, Kant, Deleuze etc, whilst Wolves teaches the much more useful:

    Being Bad
    Thou Shalt Not
    Media Ethics

    – seriously, they really are Wolves philosophy modules, the latter two are supposedly at a high level. We're doomed i say, doomed.

    26 May 2004, 06:37

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