Arts vs Sciences

“‘Arts’ steps into the ring, he’s looking good (fetching outfit) and is dancing around his opponent the much fancied ‘Sciences’. Things are looking fine for Arts; he’s coming in with a move that can only be described as surreal… and oh… Sciences has come back with the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle and Arts doesn’t know where he is!” Those of you that know of me know I’m a Science doctorate. This should make this subject easy you would think. I don’t think so at all. My main gripe with arts students when it comes to discussions like this is that they always feel like they have to tell you how much bloody work they’re doing. Hmm. Well, you ...  Read the complete review

The Daily Mail (Saturday February 9th) ran an article concerning the Government's proposal to allow children to drop sciences and languages from their studies at the age of 14. A few days later, a TV news program covered the same issue, only it was very noticeable that there was no mention at all about the dropping of sciences.....just languages. Technology in this country is once again being smacked in the face by a government that could not care a fig about science, engineering and technical progress. It is already very difficult to recruit suitably- qualified people into the sciences; why on earth is this government making it even harder, by giving ...  Read the complete review

Well I feel better placed then most to answer this. My mother is a conceptual artist, but yet I am training to be an engineer. Personally I think that art can be wonderful it can be very emotive. A world without art would be a very boring place indeed. Though we may consider most art to be hanging in such galleries as the Satchi or Tate Modern and for it to consist of dead sharks or elephant poo. Thats just a misconception in truth as Andy Warhol showed art has penetrated every facet of society. Many people would never think of the art that is involved in a supermarket but in fact everywhere you would care to look there is glorious design covering ...  Read the complete review

The funniest story of the week has to be of the young asylum seeker cleaner at The Tate gallery who cleaned up more rubbish than he was supposed to. One such item was a supposedly work of art from one of these pretencious “Cool Britiana” modern art dicks that can sell crap to anyone stupid enough trying to be important. The young Nigerian saw the messy ensemble of items around a table and quite rightly bunged them in a black bin bag. The next morning the ar-tist arrived to discover that his prized work was in the bin where we all know it belongs. Mr Masare was non-plussed at the b****g he got when he thought he was doing a good job. But his ...  Read the complete review

I know from experience how frustrating it is for arts students when it comes to getting a job, especially when people with science based studies seem not to have any problem. Anyone studying the arts typically gets the hippy layabout image while the scientist gets the strict study-hard image. I, and many like me find this very frustrating as both of the subjects are of equal difficulty, but in different areas. Arts students have to work every bit as hard as the science based ones, yet never seem to get the credit or jobs that they require. I knew a woman once when I was in college that was having to go back to college after getting a good pass for an ...  Read the complete review