[csaa-forum] Trashy magpies

[Nicholls, Susan]

Eagleton's review:
http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSReview_Bshop&newDisplayURN=300000088090

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Dr Susan Nicholls
School of Professional Communication
Division of Communication and Education
University of Canberra

Tel 02 6201 5720
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> From: 	Jason Jacobs
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> I don't see the problem with academics doing research for the sake of knowledge alone, rather than it having to be 'relevant'. It's about time we intellectuals started defending research that has bugger all to do with the real world and therefore resist the daft assertion that universities are there for employers alone. I would recommend to the list Frank Furedi's Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, a polemic against the dumbing down of higher education, which has received approbation from Terry Eagleton among others. 
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> Dr Jason Jacobs
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> School of Arts, Media and Culture
> Griffith University
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> Queensland 4111
> Australia
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