Postgraduate Hot Topic: Losing our Religion?
‘Man is by his constitution a religious animal: atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.’ These are the words of Edmund Burke, the great 18th-century Irish statesman, political theorist and philosopher. Modern Secular Humanists, indeed all who consider themselves ‘atheist’, would beg to disagree with this point about religion.
Humanists – those who hold that there is no higher being than man and the animals – would insist that proven, empirical facts, and thus the disciplines of science and reason (the...
Postgraduate Education Trends
The UK postgraduate arena is changing and students about to take the next step need to consider how these shifting trends will affect them before, during and after their studies. Hotcourses talks to Joanna Newman, the British Library’s Head of Higher Education, about the future of postgraduate education in the UK… This year saw the publication of a new report about postgraduate education in the UK, which focused on current numbers of students, trends in education, and costs and benefits to students. The study was commissioned by the British Library and Higher Education Policy...
