Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear. 		 
       
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Frank launched his new book, Invitation to Terror, at the Battle of Ideas festival in London in October 2007. Watch the session on FORA.tv.
 

education and culture

I refuse to hand it to students on a plate
Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 March 2005
Lectures must be a good starting point for inquiry, not an easy ride

Citizens can’t be made in class
Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2005
Citizenship is 'the worst taught secondary-level subject' and pupils have little idea what it is about. However, it is the curriculum, not teachers, that is to blame.

A blast for the past
Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2005

Downsizing the status of science
The Scientist, 8 November 2004

Call yourself cosmopolitan?
Times Higher Education Supplement, 28 May 2004

‘They expect me to make life easier’
Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 April 2004

Sever the ties that bind young minds
Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 January 2004

The downsizing of intellectual authority
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2003
Afterword to a special issue on the changing role of the public intellectual. [pdf format]

Assessment versus intellect
The Guardian, 25 March 2003

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