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Dear Friends and Colleagues, As some of you may have already been made aware, on April 26 Middlesex University in the United Kingdom abruptly announced that it would shut down all of its philosophy programmes effective immediately. Middlesex’s Philosophy programmes are very highly regarded both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Middlesex’s Centre for Research in Modern European [...] I sincerely apologize to my distinguished readership (and to all Belgians) for the extremely low-brow nature of the link in this post, it is so insidious that I am ashamed of it by the sheer fact that it is conducted in the language I call my own, all I can really say is UGH! Nonetheless, [...] Varia: In relation to my last post, I was very flattered to see that former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is clearly a devoted post-europe reader! While it’s often said that the problem with liberals is that they are hard to find, Verhofstadt may be pretty close to the real thing. He has thoughtfully responded to my post [...] Here is a good article from the Times Literary Supplement explaining the new plan in the UK to asses scientific research and allocate funding partly (25% is the proposed weighting) on the basis of the “impact” the research or the department has outside of academia. “Outside academia” seems to have only three aspects according to [...] French police today raided and evicted hundreds of refugees from the camp near Calais known as “The Jungle”. |
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