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History of Political Thought and Intellectual History course
Anyone else interested in this new course, starting 2007/08?
Reply 1
Yeah, I'll be doing it at UCL, in case you hadn't guessed. Intellectual history is best taught by people with some degree of intellectual capacity.
Reply 2
Well, the most distinguished professor of that field is Quentin Skinner, head of the new course at Queen Mary's.
Reply 3
Sokrates5
Well, the most distinguished professor of that field is Quentin Skinner, head of the new course at Queen Mary's.
He spent his entire academic life at Cambridge.
I believe that after he retired from his job at Cambridge, he decided to join QM.
It is a sad end for a great man.
Harvard, Yale, Oxford or Princeton would have been more appropriate for someone of his caliber.
If he was forced to accept the job at QM because of financial issues, then it is a sad indictment of our world.
Reply 4
Ridiculous 
Reply 5
fundamentally and tkane, how ridulculous do you guys sound.
Alot of researchers and lecturers from top uni's come to QMUL for many reasons. Have you ever seen the application process for an academic post at QMUL?...Probably Not. It's a demanding process. Many come here because QMUL satisfies their academic interests and the international reputation and links that comes with QMUL. If coming to QMUL was to harm their reputation, they wouldn't come to QMUL.
The Principal spent some academic time at Oxbridge (and Imperial and is the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the UoL) and have alot of the Heads of Departments and alot of the academic staff in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the odd few in the remaining departments. I also work alongside Oxbridge graduates and we all get on academically and socially just fine. I'm not being a bighead by trying to glorify QMUL here, I'm merely stating the fact that studying at QMUL will not harm your career choices.
In fact, just to rub it in like I do from time to time, during the 2nd world war, the east end was heavily attacked and at the time that meant evacuating QMUL. The kind hospitality of Cambridge continued to educate the evacuatee's.
It's so sad that people like you guys come on this forum and fly around false illussions about studying at QMUL. An opinion is one thing, but to continuly ram down everyone's neck your views is just so not on. I know some level headed people have come here and said they've come to QMUL and made a fair judgement that it wasn't for them. There are lot of uni's I wouldn't go to in London and elsewhere either.
Let me say loud and clear, to you all studying at QMUL, do not listen to these haters, I know you all get a hard time by these low lives. They are far too insecure of themselves to know what's ahead of them and deserve a good ramming up the backside. A QMUL degree is a valued degree and you should be proud of it. I don't have anything against the uni's anyone applies for, what I do have something against is the attitude you portray yourselves as in this forum. In 5 years time, your going to think to yourself, "Man, I was such a dick!"
Alot of researchers and lecturers from top uni's come to QMUL for many reasons. Have you ever seen the application process for an academic post at QMUL?...Probably Not. It's a demanding process. Many come here because QMUL satisfies their academic interests and the international reputation and links that comes with QMUL. If coming to QMUL was to harm their reputation, they wouldn't come to QMUL.
The Principal spent some academic time at Oxbridge (and Imperial and is the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the UoL) and have alot of the Heads of Departments and alot of the academic staff in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the odd few in the remaining departments. I also work alongside Oxbridge graduates and we all get on academically and socially just fine. I'm not being a bighead by trying to glorify QMUL here, I'm merely stating the fact that studying at QMUL will not harm your career choices.
In fact, just to rub it in like I do from time to time, during the 2nd world war, the east end was heavily attacked and at the time that meant evacuating QMUL. The kind hospitality of Cambridge continued to educate the evacuatee's.
It's so sad that people like you guys come on this forum and fly around false illussions about studying at QMUL. An opinion is one thing, but to continuly ram down everyone's neck your views is just so not on. I know some level headed people have come here and said they've come to QMUL and made a fair judgement that it wasn't for them. There are lot of uni's I wouldn't go to in London and elsewhere either.
Let me say loud and clear, to you all studying at QMUL, do not listen to these haters, I know you all get a hard time by these low lives. They are far too insecure of themselves to know what's ahead of them and deserve a good ramming up the backside. A QMUL degree is a valued degree and you should be proud of it. I don't have anything against the uni's anyone applies for, what I do have something against is the attitude you portray yourselves as in this forum. In 5 years time, your going to think to yourself, "Man, I was such a dick!"
Reply 6
fundamentally
He spent his entire academic life at Cambridge.
I believe that after he retired from his job at Cambridge, he decided to join QM.
It is a sad end for a great man.
Harvard, Yale, Oxford or Princeton would have been more appropriate for someone of his caliber.
If he was forced to accept the job at QM because of financial issues, then it is a sad indictment of our world.
I believe that after he retired from his job at Cambridge, he decided to join QM.
It is a sad end for a great man.
Harvard, Yale, Oxford or Princeton would have been more appropriate for someone of his caliber.
If he was forced to accept the job at QM because of financial issues, then it is a sad indictment of our world.
Its funny the way Fundamentaley just hangs around the QM section reading thread after thread, making bitter comments. Someone from QM must have done some serious damgage
Reply 7
Sokrates5
Anyone else interested in this new course, starting 2007/08?
Sounds really intresting, shame ive missed out on this one graduating this year.
Reply 8
These Queen Mary academics can't even manage a fundamental like crossing the road.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1987344,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1987344,00.html
Reply 9
12
Access Course, sweet...
Reply 10
15
I have to agree with alumniBlix. Some of our faculty staff members are extremely well known, and more and more are coming. Peer ranking is exceptionally high, and why is that? Faculty staff members.
QM is not placed 99 in the world league tables (Times Higher) due to having poor staff members. Its up there because they have some of the best faculty members in the world, and it has consistently been placed around the top 100 for the last few years. http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/2006/tables/top_200/
MetalA - on a side note - how did you have the audacity to apply for UCL let alone St Edmunds with no qualifications? You do have a cheek slating QM, with you having nothing to your name. Do you feel you have to be so odious to make an argument? I am scratching my head with disbelief as to how you managed to gain access. I think I get it - you previously applied for QM where you were then rejected, went away, come back with a GNVQ and then tried Cambridge? lmao. Sad boy.
UCL has always been a place I admire just because of the people I know who go there - that may just be slipping!
QM is not placed 99 in the world league tables (Times Higher) due to having poor staff members. Its up there because they have some of the best faculty members in the world, and it has consistently been placed around the top 100 for the last few years. http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/2006/tables/top_200/
MetalA - on a side note - how did you have the audacity to apply for UCL let alone St Edmunds with no qualifications? You do have a cheek slating QM, with you having nothing to your name. Do you feel you have to be so odious to make an argument? I am scratching my head with disbelief as to how you managed to gain access. I think I get it - you previously applied for QM where you were then rejected, went away, come back with a GNVQ and then tried Cambridge? lmao. Sad boy.
UCL has always been a place I admire just because of the people I know who go there - that may just be slipping!
Reply 11
Well you can continue scratching your head... you probably do it all the time! All I will say is that I visited QM twice observing that I would rather stick a knife in the place where the sun does not shine than go there. So, it's placed 99, give or take next year it might not even be there.
Reply 12
MetalA
These Queen Mary academics can't even manage a fundamental like crossing the road.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1987344,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1987344,00.html
Ok, that's brave of you to retaliate by posting an article of a QMUL lecturer in a slight blunder but what does the presence of that article tell you about a QMUL lecturer being reported on by a broadsheet tabloid paper?
OwNeD!
P.S. Intelligent responses please.
Reply 13
It didn't matter where the lecturer was from. A British Historian getting harassed by the NYPD makes a good story no matter where they teach. It's just funny and rather telling that the guy comes from QM
Reply 14
Bah...Owned.
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