What is the School of P.E.P.?
The School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy 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. Mattravers and the School's adminstrator is Ms. Andi Carte.
For further information on the School, please visit the website http://www.york.ac.uk/pep.