Now Available : The PEP Scholarship Fund

The PEP Scholarship Fund is an opportunity offered by the Club of PEP to joint-degree students of Politics, Economics and Philosophy to apply for funding of up to £500 for a scholarly project within the field of PEP.

Any PEP student with a project in mind (which does not have to be academic - it might be humanitarian, for example) are welcome to apply. Go to the Scholarship Fund section under Current Students to find out more. Don't take too long to decide - the dealine is the Wednesday of Week 1 in Spring Term, 2008.

New VOX Edition!

Check out the new edition of VOX: http://www.voxjournal.co.u k/ CONTENTS 1. The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds By Rasmus Fonnesbaek Andersen 2. Liberalism and The Priority of The Individual By Professor Colin Bird 3. Women in India’s Grass-Roots Politics By Hiranmayee Mishra 4. Asocial Individualism By James Hodgson 5. Mill on Individuality By Ashley W.J. Wright 6. The Case for A World Parliament By Luke Smalley 7. Feminism and The Ethics of Care By Joanna Konings

Write for the next VOX edition

VOX - The Student Journal of Politics, Economics and Philosophy - is calling for the submission of articles for the Spring Term Issue 2009.

The next edition will be on the wide theme of the “FINANCIAL CRISIS” and related areas (see list below).

The article should be between 1000-1200 words. The deadline for submission is 11 January 2009.

If you want to write, please let us know by emailing a short outline of your proposed article to vox@clubofpep.org by 19 December 2008.

You might want to pick an article idea from the following list or suggest your own topic:
* Finance (eg. derivatives, CDSs, hedge funds etc.)
* Keynesianism (role of the state in the crisis)
* International Economics/Politics (BRICs, esp. Asia; sovereign wealth funds; global regulatory system)
* Economic History (eg. Great Depression)
* The Politics of Crises
* Economics, Justice and Responsibility
* Or your own article idea.

Undergraduates, graduates and academics from any degree programme are welcome to contribute.

Yorkworks

YorkWorks, the Club of PEP’s annual careers fair, is back!

On Thursday 6th November from 11am to 3pm head for Central Hall where you’ll find representatives from the public sector, retail and NGOs, as well as technology, law, and finance firms.

Whatever year you’re in, it’s an excellent opportunity to gather information about various careers and also chat to people who work for the companies to help you get one step closer to your dream job.

All students warmly welcome.

Club of P.E.P. Bulletin Board

The club's bulletin board is now up. A bulletin board is an internet discussion board where you can start and reply to discussions. So, if you have any questions or anything you wish to raise in the community, or even if you only want to chat with other members, join now!

Click here to go to the bulletin board. Registration is quick and easy!

If you have any problems, please contact the webmaster.

Welcome!

The Club of PEP would like to welcome all the new PEP students joining the University of York this October, as well as welcoming back all returning students.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Club, you’ve come to the right place – hopefully a browse of our website will help you to discover more.

We have a wide range of events lined up during the first couple of weeks of term to help ease new students into university life. These include a free lunch, a Club social in town and a second-hand bookshop event. Keep an eye on this page for exact dates and times.

Also, as a result of a generous sponsorship from Sanarc Companies, PEP T-shirts will be handed out for free to the incoming freshers.

In the longer term there are also PEP-run events, such as YorkWorks (the largest careers fair in York), as well as the Club’s annual trip to Sweden to meet up with its sister organisation at Lund University (currently scheduled for 21st-23rd November – for more information contact our Sweden trip co-ordinator, Sam McCormick, on sjm513@york.ac.uk), to look forward to.

The Club is also pleased to announce that with many thanks to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who has kindly agreed to renew and expand their sponsorship agreement with us, it will be offering the Scholarship Fund again this academic year. The fund, which last year went to Masters student Alex Karakostas, is aimed to aid a (or multiple) PEP student(s) with an academic interdisciplinary project.

Watch this space for further news on how to apply later this year.

New Website!

Welcome to the new Club of P.E.P. website, created for your viewing and browsing pleasure. Not only has the layout been changed, the website now features a newsblog that is easily updateable, thus bringing you more up-to-date news from the Club. Also, there is a photo gallery now, as well as a Flickr photo album on the home page. As you can see, the website has just gotten more interesting!

If you find any problems or errors, please inform the webmaster. Enjoy!

For more news from the Club, please visit our newsblog.

Recent Photos

For more photos, check out our photo gallery.

What is the Club of P.E.P.?

The Club of PEP (Politics, Economics and Philosophy) represents the student body of the School of PEP at the University of York.

Amidst the recent proliferation of PPE degrees in the UK, York is widely considered, alongside Oxford, to be 'the' place to study these subjects together.  The current standard offer of AAB at A-level (or minimum 36 points with International Baccalaureate) ensures that only the very brightest students enrol.

Excellence is not exclusive to the School of PEP.  York University is one of just six in the United Kingdom that consistently maintain a top ten ranking on all major British university league tables. Two recent awards corroborate York's reputation for academic excellence: the 2003 Sunday Times 'University of the Year' award and the 2003 Financial Times 'Top Teaching University' award.
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What is the School of P.E.P.?

The School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy (PEP School) is not itself a Department but exists to co-ordinate the combined degrees involving Economics, Philosophy and Politics. The School aims to provide integrated and coherent degrees in the various combinations of these subjects while retaining sufficient flexibility to allow students to pursue their own particular interests within the subjects.

The three departments of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, have each achieved the maximum score of 24 out of 24 for the quality of their teaching. The marks were awarded by the external review teams from the Quality Assurance Agency. Additionally, each of the Departments received 5 out of 5 possible points for the quality of their Research in the recent RAE assessments.

The director of the School is Prof. M. Qizilbash and the School's secretary is Ms. Andi Carte.

For further information on the School, please visit the website.

The Committee of the Club of P.E.P.

The Club of PEP held its second Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the 1st of February 2007. If you would like to look at the Club's constitution, please refer to the relevant page.

At the AGM, the Senior Members of the Club's Executive Committee were elected. The Constitution calls simply for the Senior Members of the Executive Committee (i.e. the President, Secretary and Treasurer) to be elected. Ordinary Committee Members are also elected onto the General Committee by block vote.

Click here for more info on the committee.