I am appalled by the level of reasoning displayed by the students in this article about jobs and higher education. Russell Group students, you are not thinking so clearly. However, it is very cool to be at the beginning of a government again, where you get all the debate about principles of education. Everyone's writing about stuff I care about,

Things I have found out about that other people might be interested in, do pass on!

1. Feminist Review Trust - Research Grants Programme - deadline 31st May 2010Up to £10,000 is available for research and study into the social, economic and legal position of women in society and the dissemination of the results. Eg Conferences or workshops, ( Read more... )

"Jaime exposed one of the most dangerous myths of our time - that inner city students can't be expected to perform at the highest levels. Because of him, that destructive idea has been shattered forever." Edward James Olmos ( Read more... )

Hairdryers are better than ovens at drying clothes in a hurry.
But a plane is not a good bed! So today there is no happy mouse.

I love Lent, it is one of my favourite part of the liturgical year! It is all full of promise and purpose and being purified and redeemed, and the space to figure everything out and start again where I need to. It's preparation for mission, and spending 40 days with God, and being freed from all the crazy prisons I wander into ( Read more... )

This is the first non-West Wing campaign ad I have seen, which makes me think that US campaign staff are drinking more caffeine than is strictly good for them.

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Article here.

Yikes, I know nothing about Cambridge colleges and I have about three weeks until my PhD deadline. And half of the Cambridge graduates I know are sequestered with Shakespeare for the next five days, that was failful of me ( Read more... )

So first there was the range of bear-puns at Midnight Mass, the best of which was
let the land and all its bears rejoice (misreading of Psalm 96:12)
but also involved Christ as the 'incarnate bear' and the 'bear of our sins'.

And today I read Psalm 40 -
You wanted no sacrifice or cereal offering
But you gave me an open earCorn-based punning*? ( Read more... )

Argh, my SPSS is broken. Is there anyone with SPSS (or cunning know-how) who can export my SPSS file to Excel so I can read it?

ETA Fail! I forgot that said dataset has not been anonymised yet. Thanks anyway!

I am looking for somewhere nice to live between 5-7.30 this evening. It is warm and quiet and preferably serving warm drinks. Ideally it is near Green Park or Bond Street.

Any ideas? And anyone want to join me? I have a stupid amount of time to get from Barking to my church group.