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So – we now have an official twitter account for the course at @RPEatGlos  – we will no doubt tweet endlessly, it’ll be a constant stream of wisdom..

7.30pm, FCTC001, March 26th 2014 – Book a place HERE Robert Newman is an author, broadcaster, comedian, and political activist, who will be making a rare public speaking appearance at The University of Gloucestershire on March 26th 2014.  He read…

A Opinion Piece by Frances O’Hagan – an RPE Graduate who now teaches “Life in education is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”[1]. If recent statistics are anything to go by, I can’t think of a more apt thing to…

As it’s nearly the weekend – I thought I’d post something less serious. I’ve been having some text chats (using ifaketext.com in case you’re interested) with dead philosophers… You can see these entirely fictional exchanges at: my tumblr :  

Saturday 1 March 2014, 10.00am-4.00pm in Room TC103, The Park Campus, Cheltenham. For details take a look here:  

The next speaker in our series of Humanities Public Lecture is Tim Ingold, who will be speaking on ‘Lines and Weather’ on 31 January, Francis Close Hall TC001 (Main lecture theatre) at 7:30pm. Professor Ingold is Chair in Social Anthropology…

These days – most of the RPE student activity seems to be on the Facebook group at  – I would recommend a look at this for anyone who wants to get a real sense of what our students discuss.. The…

Well – that was tough! We had over 30 essays for our competition – and there wasn’t a bad one among them. We were hugely impressed by the quality – and choosing a winner was very challenging. But we like…

Is Reason better than (blind) Faith?  Another of our short Philosophy of Religion videos.. There also some new videos about Buddhism on here -including one where Dr William Large asks me a bunch of difficult questions: