June 2013
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My Week
It started in the Welsh Marches: walking, good pubs (one with a cabaret by refugees from the Hay Festival), and English song in and around Ludlow. Hard to beat. World Environment Day I missed this, spending most of the day...
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East of Eden
A wet day in Truro brought that existential dilemma faced by all Cornish tourists over recent years: get wet by visiting yet more gardens (think dripping rhododendrons), or go to the Eden Project. So, the Project it was. My first...
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Every little helps, but believe in better as well
The penchant for vacuous marketing slogans has spread to universities, it seems, if aspects of the HEA's new Green Academy programme are anything to go by. Most institutions on the programme have chosen a title for their project which reflects...
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New PIs wanted by Funding Councils
The UK Funding Council are consulting on HE performance indicators. Hefce says that the indicators currently cover the following data: widening participation indicators non-continuation rates (including projected outcomes) module completion rates research output employment of graduates. ... with HESA providing the...
