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Tag Archives: university
A paper on the informational content of food – rejected (Rousse)
SM agreed to leave the house and type an email to the conference organiser at Sunderland University. ‘If you ask for a start time of 4pm, I can attend after conducting a PhD viva’, I suggested. When SM learnt that … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, content, food, information, paper, PhD, presentation, Sunderland, trivial, university, viva
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A new ‘seaside university’ (Rousse)
Over the summer months one of Edinburgh’s venerable institutions of higher education transformed itself into a ‘seaside university’ complete with beach, sea and funfair. Portobello was no longer the only show in town.
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Tagged beach, Edinburgh, education, funfair, higher, Portobello, sea, seaside, university
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Katie Hopkins on University Challenge (Rousse)
‘Katie Hopkins? Katie Hopkins on University Challenge?’ I asked. ‘Yes’, replied HJ, ‘Representing Birmingham University’. This was all related to me on a Scottish beach where, by complete coincidence, was gathered an array of my undergraduate friends. Here I also … Continue reading
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Tagged action, beach, Birmingham, coincidence, disciplinary, Elena Ferrante, friend, headmaster, impose, Katie Hopkins, Neopolitan, novel, Scottish, undergraduate, university, University Challenge
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Library staff roles in University elearning systems (Rousse)
The vice chancellor was going to the US for a fortnight and left SC in charge of everything, including finance. Just before he left, he asked SC to read out the history of the University as printed in gold embroidery … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, bolster, cushion, data, elearning, embroidery, entry, finance, gold, history, library, objection, staff, system, university, Vice Chancellor
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Stop distracting me, Sir Ian McKellan! (Belle)
Three weeks into my mathematics degree I still hadn’t made it to a single class. Every time I tried to make my way to the classroom, I would be waylaid by Sir Ian McKellan and Michael York offering me small bottles … Continue reading
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Tagged Champagne, mathematics, Michael York, phone box, Sir Ian McKellan, university, urinal
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Middle-aged errant husband enjoys ‘space’ in the arms of a 21 year old student (Rousse)
TPR announced that he needed some ‘space’ so he moved out of our marital home and into a shared flat in Bruntsfield with a bunch of undergrads and some young professionals (one of whom had just been offered a lectureship … Continue reading
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Tagged 21, arms, beg, Bruntsfield, Cambridge, cycling, discovery, enjoy, errant, heartbroken, holiday, home, husband, Isabel Peters, lectureship, marital, middle-age, professionals, sleep, Sonya, space, STD, student, TPR, undergrads, university, young
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‘Intelligence calipers’ measure IQs of aspiring spooks (Rousse)
The job advert had read ‘civil servant’ but I knew that the panel members opposite me were assessing my suitability for a role that included subterfuge, espionage, honeypots, and data decryption. I played along answering the standard interview questions with … Continue reading
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Tagged advert, artefact, caliper, candidate, chair, civil servant, clue, data decryption, degree, espionage, floor, history, honeypots, inquiry, intelligence, interview, job, murder, panel, questions, role, room, school, sinus, spook, subterfuge, TPR, university, wall
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