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The price of popularity at Newcastle University (Rousse)

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I held offers from both Durham and Newcastle Universities. I went for Newcastle in the end. The academic staff at Durham were just a little too stuffy for my liking. Many other students also preferred Newcastle – so much so … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, accommodation, bed, crisis, double, Durham, eject, empty, hall, man, morning, Newcastle, popularity, price, residendence, room, staff, student, students, stuffy, undergraduate, university, University of Durham, University of Newcastle | Leave a comment

A missing slide deck (Rousse)

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Although they said that it would never run again, I found that the conference was actually meeting in secret, and I was an invited speaker. In the break on the last day I went up to the podium to upload … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ballroom, break, coffee, computer, conference, deck, forget, hall, invited, lecture, meeting, missing, podium, pose, presentation, seat, secret, slide, slides, speaker, stop, tracks, waltz | Leave a comment

Impatient engineers and cigar-smoking students (Rousse)

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Dreamaticus

At 3pm I joined a meeting of colleagues in the School of Engineering. I never realised before just how many there were of them: hundreds! When it came to my turn to speak it was hard work to shout above … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2:2, abandon, Athena SWAN, cheer, cigar, colleagues, corridor, degree, degrees, engineer, engineers, hall, impatient, interview, news, question, school, smoking, speak, student, students, submission, target, welfare | Leave a comment

Glenn Close, knowledge management, and an over-committed academic (Rousse)

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Dreamaticus

“Glenn Close, of course” started the speaker. I was relieved that the programme was underway, even though I had no idea what Glenn Close had to do with knowledge management. “Have you any idea what time it is?” my sister … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, commitment, demand, drink, Economist, food, gear, give, glance, Glenn Close, guests, gym, hall, hands, hour, immigrant, knowledge management, meeting, mother, office, sister, sleeve, student, time, watch, woman | Leave a comment

Tickled by a ghost at a high school reunion (Rousse)

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I was incredibly excited that 23rd August had come round so quickly. Whatever happened to all those weeks since the reunion plans were fixed in May? I walked into the school hall and the first people I saw were LA … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged August, boy, boys, bruises, bus, comprehensive, daughter, dead, death, die, father, fun, ghost, girls, graduate, hair, hall, high, jeans, man, message, nephew, plans, Princes Street, red, reunion, school, sister, tale, tickle, uncle | Leave a comment

The chaos of rapid expansion in UK higher education (Rousse)

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Dreamaticus

The expansion of Queen Margaret University’s portfolio of courses was so rapid that its building could not cope with the additional student numbers. Indeed something had gone terribly wrong during the extra construction work and now many of the institution’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, business, chaos, construction, corridor, corridors, dead-end, dead-ends, English, expansion, hall, higher education, hiss, history, information, joy, knowledge management, language, lecture, lunch, meeting, mess, Queen Margaret University, sources, staircase, staircases, student, students, timetable, tutor | Leave a comment

A claustrophobic attempt to decipher a grass message (Rousse)

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Dreamaticus

A window on the landing of a stairwell on the south side of Edinburgh’s East Claremont Street would be the best vantage point for the message in the lawn of the Claremont Crescent garden. I crossed the road, pushed open … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged claustrophobia, claustrophobic, companion, door, East Claremont Street, Edinburgh, grass, hall, landing, lawn, message, road, south, stairs, stairwell, steps, stone | Leave a comment

When cloud computing meets Beatnik poetry (Rousse)

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Rather than continue our journey south we turned back towards Sheffield. JT was annoyed. She had hoped that we would drop her off in Stockton-on-Tees. Instead we parked in the huge Costco car park, paid the extortionate parking fee, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beatnik, car park, CEO, cloud, cloud computing, computing, conference, Costco, fee, hall, poetry, presenters, public transport, Sheffield, speakers, Stockton-on-Tees | Leave a comment

Strange happenings at the University of Newcastle recall scenes from 1984 (Rousse)

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Dreamaticus

TPR and I called in for breakfast at my sister S’s hall of residence at Newcastle University. Each morning Barton Hall put out an elaborate spread for its undergraduates and I couldn’t resist returning to the buffet for yet another … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged action, bar, barton, battle, bell, buffet, building, cereal, cheese, classes, cream, department, doors, dorm, film 1984, food, foot, formation, George Orwell, hall, March, movie, names, Newcastle, Northumbria, residence, resist, seat, spread, squads, staff, strange, students, teaching, toast, troops, tutor, undergraduates, university, walls | Leave a comment

Abingdon secrets (Rousse)

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Abingdon would hardly have been my choice for a weekend away, but TPR was determined that this would be the perfect venue to relax for a couple of days. He was also completely unaware that this was where my ex-boyfriend … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Abingdon, audience, cameras, church, correspondence, ex-boyfriend, excitable, flirty, girls, hall, iPhone, lurk, meet, muscles, relax, secret, secrets, shameful, texts, TPR, venue, weekend, whisky | Leave a comment

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The price of popularity at Newcastle University (Rousse)

A missing slide deck (Rousse)

Impatient engineers and cigar-smoking students (Rousse)

Glenn Close, knowledge management, and an over-committed academic (Rousse)

Tickled by a ghost at a high school reunion (Rousse)

The chaos of rapid expansion in UK higher education (Rousse)

A claustrophobic attempt to decipher a grass message (Rousse)

Strange happenings at the University of Newcastle recall scenes from 1984 (Rousse)

Abingdon secrets (Rousse)

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