The Times Higher Education Supplement or THES, has relaunched itself over the last couple of weeks in a new magazine format which, IMHO, looks pretty good and no longer leaves newsprint ink on your fingers!
This week it publishes an article on the nature of universities with a nice, if considerably Anglocentric, synopsis of the history of the university idea. Missing, is my own particular interest: that of the concept of the "democratic intellect" and a proper discussion of what constitutes 'liberal arts', etc, but the article is interesting and a good way to start debate and discussion on these key themes which are at the heart of our Galway Symposium on June 5th/6th this year.
We're progressing the arrangements on that front and getting final confirmation from a number of keynotes but are still talking about the exact title. Difficult to come up with something appropriately catchy that hasn't already been used in books, radio programmes, etc. Ideas?
Friday, January 18, 2008
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