Bill Scott
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Bill Scott5 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...
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Bill Scott4 March 2013
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...
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Bill Scott1 March 2013
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...
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Bill Scott28 February 2013
Re-visiting the Neo-Late-Neolithic at Stonehenge
English Heritage is currently building a new visitor centre at Stonehenge (with civilised toilets; thanks be to the druids). It is due to open later this year. Outside the main exhibition centre there will be an external gallery featuring some...
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Bill Scott27 February 2013
Sunday 'junk' discussion
I spend a small part of Sunday morning reading an extended and informed Internet discussion about (so called) Junk DNA and the rival claims made by research groups about the idea of junk, and each other. You can find, and...
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Bill Scott26 February 2013
SHED SHARE blues ...
One of the characteristics of the HEA's SHED SHARE mailbase is that hardly anyone uses it for discussion. Most often it's used for self-promotion or just to announce stuff, and discussion rarely gets beyond three contributions. I understand from those...
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Bill Scott25 February 2013
That was geography, that was
This is how the draft national curriculum specification for geography begins: A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives....
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Bill Scott22 February 2013
All change at DECC
DECC has now moved its content to gov.uk/decc Current content from the old DECC website has been transferred and organised into the following policy priorities, with supporting pages: Helping households to cut their energy bills Includes: Green Deal, Warm Home Discount...
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Bill Scott21 February 2013
Transition in Learning in Transition
The latest South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar was held on February 14th in Totnes. The topic was Learning in Transition. Appropriately, we met in the Totnes Transition Network meeting room. Ben Brangwyn opened the seminar with some background...
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Bill Scott20 February 2013
Oak, Furrows, and Mink
The Oak and Furrows wildlife rescue centre is a charity based in Gloucestershire. Its aim is to "provide care for wild animals in need so that they can be returned to the wild fit and healthy for a second chance.”...