March 2013

  • QAA, enterprise and bankers

    I wrote recently about the QAA's foray into higher education professional development with its new resource on enterprise. When I actually read the draft text, my first reaction was to wonder why QAA was doing this and not the Higher...

  • Update on Semington A, B, C, D, ...

    I've blogged before on our modest contribution to the UK's energy demands through the solar PV array that is Semington A. January saw us pass 7MWHr of production and we have been joined by Semingtons B to L as there...

  • Spinons, orbitons, holons, and Brian Cox

    I watched the latest Horizon last week (BBC 4; Thursday) which featured, Andy Parker, a bloke at CERN who's looking inside quarks – or hoping to.  Andy was also trying to create micro (and mercifully very temporary) black holes inside...