Would def like to give it a try but not in the buff!
Errr yeh, and? Thats just one of the many ways professor-ships work.
A gross distortion as usual, User482. In fact:-Yes, I know. I happen to think it cheapens the title, that's all. Though not as much as converting a private company to a university, and conferring the title on yourself.
http://www.bpp.com/about-bpp/-/aboutBPP/carl-lygo
Mis-informed claptrap.A gross distortion as usual, User482. In fact:-
- All universities grant their own professorships;
- BPP's status as a degree-awarding body is approved by an independent arm of Government and confirmed by the Privy Council;
- BPP's courses are recognised by the appropriate professional bodies and are amongst the most rigorous available. I know, because I have paid my own money to send people on them.
There are professors heading tiny departments in third rate universities up and down the country. Carl Lygo has a substantial career as an academic and adviser to HMG and on any unprejudiced view is well worth the title.
Ok... so being a gifted student at Manchester, getting a job at the worlds leading particle physics lab and doing more for the public face of physics then any scientist has since Albert Einsten, "cheapens" it does it?,,,
hmmmmm
Ok... so being a gifted student at Manchester, getting a job at the worlds leading particle physics lab and doing more for the public face of physics then any scientist has since Albert Einsten, "cheapens" it does it?,,,
hmmmmm
And so it might be because he is an outstanding research physicist rather than a telly don. I honestly don't know - I'm not qualified to judge either.Getting a job at a prestigious research laboratory doesn't get you a professorship, so we're left with communications as the reason - as srw points out, it happened after a very short time in the public conscience.
And so it might be because he is an outstanding research physicist rather than a telly don. I honestly don't know - I'm not qualified to judge either.
I love swimming in open water. However, a few years back went swimming at Blackpool beach and when I'd finished, I noticed a floating condom and a turd (think 'swimming pool scene from 'Caddy Shack', if you know that old film). Wish I'd seen those gross items before taking the swim!
Isn't there a joke about academics arguing and hot air?
Can we get back to wild swimming please?