I know they're all at it (er, self-marketing, I mean), but the LSBF (sounds like a festival for sexual minorities, and there may well be students and staff at the London School of Business and Finance who agree) are really pulling out all the tacky stops in their current "Be a student and get a free iPad 2!" campaign ( Read more... )

Jackson Toby's reach rarely exceeds his grasp, but it's still taken me a week to post something about his piece on the Minding The Campus website, "The Revenge of the Unemployed Graduates". A taster:

"Western welfare states promote education as an escalator into the middle class, thereby kindling hopes for well-paid careers for everyone who gets ( Read more... )

Not that I'm basing my befuddlement on the Sarah Palin example, natch. In fact, this entire business seems to reek of pettiness and spite, with the only British echo of it (distorted through time, opportunity, and a wholly different, apolitical focus) sounding out across the UEA campus with regard to the contentious climate change correspondence a ( Read more... )

Er, not that the New College for the Humanities (NCH) is going to be full of mutants. (Well, maybe a few rich mutants. No, forget it. Bleeding an inappropriate pop cultural reference dry just because it's vaguely timely definitely isn't the way to go with this one. Gosh, is that the time ( Read more... )

In-house: http://coffeecroissant.livejournal.com/1934.htmlRead more... )

This just in (cheers to M):

"How did you get togather with your partner?"

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1655610

Note to newbies: I receive about a dozen e-mails a week featuring material derived from The Student Room entries. Typos are ( Read more... )

'A prominent Italian historian has claimed that the Roman Empire collapsed because a "contagion of homosexuality and effeminacy" made it easy pickings for barbarian hordes, sparking a furious row.'

Oh, my.


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And other stuff, but I tuned out most of it when I hit the line about women feeling uncomfortable in male-dominated settings:

http://www.bnet.com/blog/penelope-trunk/mad-about-the-gender-gap-blame-nature/404

...don't be surprised if the nut escapes, and innocent people get injured by pieces of flying shell:http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2011/03/21/media-policy-project-policy-brief-

As some wag at Birkbeck pointed out earlier this evening, it's currently like that old cathode ray tube television sat in the corner of the room - doing naff all, except sucking the lifeblood out of the planet's energy resources:


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