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I think if asked the examination boards or university admissions people they
would probably tell you that science is distinctly unfashionable. Having
Dawkins on the best-seller lists isn't everything
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But that defines fashionable in a very narrow sense. Schoolchildren are not
the same as the general public. For heaven's sake, they still believe that
pop music is the in thing. Almost by definition young people rarely find
fashionable the subjects that newspapers and broadcasters consider to be
today's rage. Cooking and eating, for example, are media fashions while
schoolkids think that a Big Mac is the bee's knees.
On the education front media studies are dead fashionable with students. But
they are deeply out of fashion with employers. For another sign of the
fashionability of science, look at the development of media science degrees
at the undergraduate level. Frightening.
MK
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Michael Kenward OBE / Phone: +44 (0)1444 400568 Fax: 401064
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