<p>LSE for a MSc in Phil. of Social Science versus KCL for a MA in Phil. (general) – does anyone here know about the quality of teaching at these two departments?</p>
<p>Usually I’d recommend KCL here given its excellent department and teaching reputation and given that LSE is famed (for lack of a better word) for poor teaching at the master’s level - enough so that even in a recent edition of the Beaver there was a report on LSE’s administration starting to acknowledge this reputation.</p>
<p>That said, KCL recently announced plans to fire a number of senior philosophy lecturers and professors (budgets etc). I don’t have all the details, but if you search on facebook, there is a group that has the latest. Even academics at UCL have been writing to the King’s administration to voice their disgust. </p>
<p>So King’s for better teaching though it might not have any teachers at all soon, which will make your question redundant.</p>
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