I am happy to be corrected on this, but I do get the impression that prior to World War 2 the obtaining of a 'place' at Oxbridge - as distinct from a Scholarship or Exhibition - did not require an applicant to excel academically to anything like the extent that has been required in recent decades.In that era Oxbridge appears to have been very largely a finishing school for public schoolboys - with the exception of the Scholars and Exhibitioners who often came from the grammar schools.
Yes, you just had to want to go, and have a rich daddy. The same is true more recently of public schools. Even some Etonians lament that the rich clots' places are now given to geeks and nerds.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
Mr. D, no, mammalia is a class within the animal kingdom, not a species.
Mr. F, psychology itself varies from being biology to sociology, with a fair smattering of politics and bullshit in the centre and fringes respectively.
Mr. D, no, mammalia is a class within the animal kingdom, not a species.
Mr. F, psychology itself varies from being biology to sociology, with a fair smattering of politics and bullshit in the centre and fringes respectively.
Thanks for the responses! I’ve just now discovered that my phone is waterproof (I have an Iphone 7). Although I will say that not having a phone jack anymore is a pain in the neck. I’m hoping to get an adapter this Christmas so I can charge my phone while listening to music/podcasts on it.
One thing I’ve realised with my books - after four years or so they start to decay....
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
Isn’t that the rationale behind the DUP’s position? It’s all a Romish plot to sell them out to the Catholics in the South!
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
That view is fairly common among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians.
Thanks for the responses! I’ve just now discovered that my phone is waterproof (I have an Iphone 7). Although I will say that not having a phone jack anymore is a pain in the neck. I’m hoping to get an adapter this Christmas so I can charge my phone while listening to music/podcasts on it.
One thing I’ve realised with my books - after four years or so they start to decay....
All this talk of who got what degree. Surely only those with a First in PPE should be allowed to post on PB?
Not a real degree according to the Cameron haters.
Only legal, history, science, or engineering degrees count as proper degrees
Not Greats?
And why should vocational courses like law be taught in proper universities?
I consider Literae Humaniores a history degree.
Fair enough.
It was a degree I seriously considered reading, but declined.
If I had the time and resources to go back and do another degree, I'd do History. Preferably somewhere that didn't require me to write essays.
You should go to Oxford or Cambridge then. Apparently they only 'read' their subjects there, so I assume that no essay writing is involved.
Wasn't my experience of friends reading history tbh. Actually, what I want at this stage in my life is to learn about a subject, not to end up with a bit of paper saying I have.
The Open University is brilliant for learning; the quality of their materials is outstanding and compensates for the relative lack of face to face. Whether you work towards a qualification or just do the courses you fancy is up to you. As with any course there is of course written assignments, but how seriously you take them is up to you. And sadly of course tuition fees have pushed up the cost.
I'm doing a free course on autism on FutureLearn at the moment. It is very revealing and gives advice on how to interact with people on the spectrum who lack self awareness and have narrow obsessions.
You mean you have been using as as a free resource for your experiments
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
Isn’t that the rationale behind the DUP’s position? It’s all a Romish plot to sell them out to the Catholics in the South!
The first generation of DUP leaders, like Ian Paisley Senior, Ivan Foster, and William Mcrea, saw the EU in those terms, as no doubt, do many DUP voters. The current generation of leaders are more aligned with Conservative eurosceptics.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
Isn't that the orthodox Tory view of pre-Thatcher Britain?
Thanks for the responses! I’ve just now discovered that my phone is waterproof (I have an Iphone 7). Although I will say that not having a phone jack anymore is a pain in the neck. I’m hoping to get an adapter this Christmas so I can charge my phone while listening to music/podcasts on it.
One thing I’ve realised with my books - after four years or so they start to decay....
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
Despite not being a PB Tory, I agree with that. The Museum of Curiosity on R4 names John Lloyd as Professor of Ignorance at Southampton Solent University. I initially took it to be a piss-take. Then I was told, oh no ... there is such a place and it used to be a College of Art.
What is the point in B'ham City Univ? The city already has Birmingham (a standard red brick univ) and Aston (a technological univ.) It seems it also began as a College of Art. I went to a conference there in 2016 on technology. Doesn't seem very arty, I later thought, when I found this out.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
That view is fairly common among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians.
I've just done a search on religion in the EU, to check the balance, and I was very surprised to see how different the Baltic states are. I had assumed they would be fairly homogeneous from a religion perspective, but Estonia is primarily Orthodox, with Protestant second and Catholics almost unknown. Latvia, just one to the South, is pretty evenly split between Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, while Lithuania has virtually no protestants and is 88% Catholic.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
That view is fairly common among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians.
I've just done a search on religion in the EU, to check the balance, and I was very surprised to see how different the Baltic states are. I had assumed they would be fairly homogeneous from a religion perspective, but Estonia is primarily Orthodox, with Protestant second and Catholics almost unknown. Latvia, just one to the South, is pretty evenly split between Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, while Lithuania has virtually no protestants and is 88% Catholic.
Lithuania was part of Poland historically while Latvia and Estonia had varying degrees of control from the Teutonic Knights, Sweden and Russia.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
I think you'll find that was done under John Major.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
Isn't that the orthodox Tory view of pre-Thatcher Britain?
I think its more that they thought Britain was fundamentally sound but had problems from following the wrong policies at that time.
Sort-of on thread, I think Penny Mordaunt as next leader is a good bet. “Rising Star” - check, member of cabinet - check, relatively safe seat - check, Brexiteer- check, armed forces background - check.
I think her biggest problem is being in the rather un-newsworthy role at DFID, but it’s easy to see how a reshuffle or two in the next year could see her bumped into something more high-profile.
Thanks for the responses! I’ve just now discovered that my phone is waterproof (I have an Iphone 7).
(Snip)
Be very careful about terminology: AIUI the iPhone 8 is sold as water-resistant not waterproof, and it'll be hard to get Apple to replace it if it does get damaged by water. A quick check shows they've gone to the IP67 standard, which means it is sealed from dust and can be in water to a depth of one metre for a certain period - but it'd be up to you to prove you didn't exceed that if it does get damaged.
So basically, you can use it in the rain. But I wouldn't intentionally put it in the bath, or use it in one. And all bets are off with saltwater, so don't go swimming in the sea.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
That view is fairly common among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians.
I've just done a search on religion in the EU, to check the balance, and I was very surprised to see how different the Baltic states are. I had assumed they would be fairly homogeneous from a religion perspective, but Estonia is primarily Orthodox, with Protestant second and Catholics almost unknown. Latvia, just one to the South, is pretty evenly split between Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, while Lithuania has virtually no protestants and is 88% Catholic.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
Despite not being a PB Tory, I agree with that. The Museum of Curiosity on R4 names John Lloyd as Professor of Ignorance at Southampton Solent University. I initially took it to be a piss-take. Then I was told, oh no ... there is such a place and it used to be a College of Art.
What is the point in B'ham City Univ? The city already has Birmingham (a standard red brick univ) and Aston (a technological univ.) It seems it also began as a College of Art. I went to a conference there in 2016 on technology. Doesn't seem very arty, I later thought, when I found this out.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Not thatcher and there were quite specific conditions for being able to convert*.
* Some would argue they actually made some polys that were quite good at a particular specialism worse as they were forced to offer a much wider range of courses.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
I think you'll find that was done under John Major.
Although the decision to merge UCCA and PCAS was made under Thatcher.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
Sort-of on thread, I think Penny Mordaunt as next leader is a good bet. “Rising Star” - check, member of cabinet - check, relatively safe seat - check, Brexiteer- check, armed forces background - check.
I think her biggest problem is being in the rather un-newsworthy role at DFID, but it’s easy to see how a reshuffle or two in the next year could see her bumped into something more high-profile.
She seems well rated by those who've worked with her, which is a good start.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
That view is fairly common among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians.
I've just done a search on religion in the EU, to check the balance, and I was very surprised to see how different the Baltic states are. I had assumed they would be fairly homogeneous from a religion perspective, but Estonia is primarily Orthodox, with Protestant second and Catholics almost unknown. Latvia, just one to the South, is pretty evenly split between Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, while Lithuania has virtually no protestants and is 88% Catholic.
Lithuania was part of Poland historically while Latvia and Estonia had varying degrees of control from the Teutonic Knights, Sweden and Russia.
Thanks for that. Stuff I vaguely (rather than properly) knew.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
Despite not being a PB Tory, I agree with that. The Museum of Curiosity on R4 names John Lloyd as Professor of Ignorance at Southampton Solent University. I initially took it to be a piss-take. Then I was told, oh no ... there is such a place and it used to be a College of Art.
What is the point in B'ham City Univ? The city already has Birmingham (a standard red brick univ) and Aston (a technological univ.) It seems it also began as a College of Art. I went to a conference there in 2016 on technology. Doesn't seem very arty, I later thought, when I found this out.
Re Birmingham City University...It was part of university of central england, but that institution had a terrible reputation and this was a rebrand which was rather controversial as easy to confuse with the "proper" birmingham university.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
Physical-books have a chance of survival if they fall in the bath: E-Books rely on being 'dry' and the MTBF life-expectancy.
True.
But so long as Amazon (the company) lives, then you just need to refresh your Kindle once every four or five years and you keep your entire library. Physical books decay over time. (Even if they're not dropped in the bath.)
My problem is I majorly buy technical books and the standard e reader, be it a Kindle or Nook or whatever is pretty much garbage for technical books. Anything where layout is important.
For prose I'm prety much exclusively e-books these days but until an affordable large format e-reader comes out for technical books I'm a computer pdf or (much preferably) physical person.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
Physical-books have a chance of survival if they fall in the bath: E-Books rely on being 'dry' and the MTBF life-expectancy.
True.
But so long as Amazon (the company) lives, then you just need to refresh your Kindle once every four or five years and you keep your entire library. Physical books decay over time. (Even if they're not dropped in the bath.)
My problem is I majorly buy technical books and the standard e reader, be it a Kindle or Book or whatever is pretty much garbage for technical books. Anything where layout is important.
For prose I'm prety much exclusively e-books these days but until an affordable large format e-reader comes out for technical books I'm a computer pdf or (much preferably) physical person.
Totally agree. I recently saw this which looks interesting,
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
Physical-books have a chance of survival if they fall in the bath: E-Books rely on being 'dry' and the MTBF life-expectancy.
True.
But so long as Amazon (the company) lives, then you just need to refresh your Kindle once every four or five years and you keep your entire library. Physical books decay over time. (Even if they're not dropped in the bath.)
My problem is I majorly buy technical books and the standard e reader, be it a Kindle or Book or whatever is pretty much garbage for technical books. Anything where layout is important.
For prose I'm prety much exclusively e-books these days but until an affordable large format e-reader comes out for technical books I'm a computer pdf or (much preferably) physical person.
Totally agree. I recently saw this which looks interesting,
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
Physical-books have a chance of survival if they fall in the bath: E-Books rely on being 'dry' and the MTBF life-expectancy.
True.
But so long as Amazon (the company) lives, then you just need to refresh your Kindle once every four or five years and you keep your entire library. Physical books decay over time. (Even if they're not dropped in the bath.)
My problem is I majorly buy technical books and the standard e reader, be it a Kindle or Book or whatever is pretty much garbage for technical books. Anything where layout is important.
For prose I'm prety much exclusively e-books these days but until an affordable large format e-reader comes out for technical books I'm a computer pdf or (much preferably) physical person.
Totally agree. I recently saw this which looks interesting,
Reviews are less than promising. Only a 2 day battery life is fairly unacceptable for an e-reader.
It's also bloody pricey compared to a 100 quid standard e-reader.
Where are you getting 2 days from? It says one week.
It is expensive, but it isn't as e-reader. The surface is like paper. The videos I have seen of it in action makes it appear much more akin to reading and writing on paper than anything else that is out there.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
Ebooks. I can read them on my Kindle or iPad. It's really handy to not have to carry a book around and be able to carry multiple books which is useful when I have to go away on business (usually 10-12 hour flights to Asia).
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis. Surrey and bath were polys and Exeter / warwick "new" unis.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
Physical-books have a chance of survival if they fall in the bath: E-Books rely on being 'dry' and the MTBF life-expectancy.
True.
But so long as Amazon (the company) lives, then you just need to refresh your Kindle once every four or five years and you keep your entire library. Physical books decay over time. (Even if they're not dropped in the bath.)
My problem is I majorly buy technical books and the standard e reader, be it a Kindle or Book or whatever is pretty much garbage for technical books. Anything where layout is important.
For prose I'm prety much exclusively e-books these days but until an affordable large format e-reader comes out for technical books I'm a computer pdf or (much preferably) physical person.
Totally agree. I recently saw this which looks interesting,
Reviews are less than promising. Only a 2 day battery life is fairly unacceptable for an e-reader.
It's also bloody pricey compared to a 100 quid standard e-reader.
Where are you getting 2 days from? It says one week.
It is expensive, but it isn't as e-reader. The surface is like paper. The videos I have seen of it in action makes it appear much more akin to reading and writing on paper than anything else that is out there.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
I think all 4 examples I gave are only ~50 years old.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
Physical-books have a chance of survival if they fall in the bath: E-Books rely on being 'dry' and the MTBF life-expectancy.
True.
But so long as Amazon (the company) lives, then you just need to refresh your Kindle once every four or five years and you keep your entire library. Physical books decay over time. (Even if they're not dropped in the bath.)
My problem is I majorly buy technical books and the standard e reader, be it a Kindle or Book or whatever is pretty much garbage for technical books. Anything where layout is important.
For prose I'm prety much exclusively e-books these days but until an affordable large format e-reader comes out for technical books I'm a computer pdf or (much preferably) physical person.
Totally agree. I recently saw this which looks interesting,
Reviews are less than promising. Only a 2 day battery life is fairly unacceptable for an e-reader.
It's also bloody pricey compared to a 100 quid standard e-reader.
Where are you getting 2 days from? It says one week.
It is expensive, but it isn't as e-reader. The surface is like paper. The videos I have seen of it in action makes it appear much more akin to reading and writing on paper than anything else that is out there.
Fair enough. Both reviews are pretty positive on the paper link experience, but it seems the negatives are on things like the ease of syncing, battery...Perhaps if they ever make a gen 2 they will have those fixed.
The bigger issue for me with all these e-ink based devices...No colour. If I am reading an academic paper and there are a load of diagrams or charts, with no colour it is often impossible to work out what is being illustrated.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
In which case it would not be surprising that there are several new universities in the top ten: at least six would have to be.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
There are a lot that are in the 100-150 years old.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
In which case it would not be surprising that there are several new universities in the top ten: at least six would have to be.
We can solve that problem by having individual Oxbridge colleges.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
There are a lot that are in the 100-150 years old.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
I think all 4 examples I gave are only ~50 years old.
62 for Exeter, which I wouldn’t quibble with being about 50.
I picked up on Exeter because I was born there and remember the University as a fixture of the city as I was growing up and so never really thought of it as particularly new.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
In which case it would not be surprising that there are several new universities in the top ten: at least six would have to be.
We can solve that problem by having individual Oxbridge colleges.
The University Challenge approach. Or are we eliminating places like St Cats?
On PB.com, why does the quality of a poster's contributions always have an inverse relationship to the level of education the poster claims to have attained?
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
That view is fairly common among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians.
I've just done a search on religion in the EU, to check the balance, and I was very surprised to see how different the Baltic states are. I had assumed they would be fairly homogeneous from a religion perspective, but Estonia is primarily Orthodox, with Protestant second and Catholics almost unknown. Latvia, just one to the South, is pretty evenly split between Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, while Lithuania has virtually no protestants and is 88% Catholic.
Lithuania was part of Poland historically while Latvia and Estonia had varying degrees of control from the Teutonic Knights, Sweden and Russia.
Thanks for that. Stuff I vaguely (rather than properly) knew.
Medieval Lithuania was a huge State, covering Belarus and much of Ukraine, as well as modern Lithuania.
Unusually, it remained mostly Pagan, until 1386, when its king converted to Catholicism, in order to become king of Poland, uniting both crowns. But, paganism survived up till the counter-reformation.
@AlbertoNardelli: Main impact of Davis remarks is that EU27 want *everything* that is agreed at every stage of the talks translated into a legal text before there can be proper progress in any next stage.
How does that fit their own insistence on nothing agreed until everything is agreed . So are they a bunch of fibbers?
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
In which case it would not be surprising that there are several new universities in the top ten: at least six would have to be.
We can solve that problem by having individual Oxbridge colleges.
The University Challenge approach. Or are we eliminating places like St Cats?
@AlbertoNardelli: Main impact of Davis remarks is that EU27 want *everything* that is agreed at every stage of the talks translated into a legal text before there can be proper progress in any next stage.
How does that fit their own insistence on nothing agreed until everything is agreed . So are they a bunch of fibbers?
Being "translated into legal text" is meaningless junk. The withdrawal agreement will not be signed until the 11th hour.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
Glasgow was founded before Aberdeen.
In the 1960s, the term 'new university' I think referred specificially to the new institutions established on a site where there wasn't a college beforehand. When I went to a redbrick in 1971, I think the new ones were Sussex, Keele, Essex, UEA and Warwick. They were all regarded as inferior to the redbricks which in turn ranked below Oxbridge, UCL, etc.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
I've just gotten a kindle. It's fine, and essential for travel, but though I've needed to divest myself of old books to make space, I do like the look and feel of physical books . I like the display.
@AlbertoNardelli: Main impact of Davis remarks is that EU27 want *everything* that is agreed at every stage of the talks translated into a legal text before there can be proper progress in any next stage.
How does that fit their own insistence on nothing agreed until everything is agreed . So are they a bunch of fibbers?
Being "translated into legal text" is meaningless junk. The withdrawal agreement will not be signed until the 11th hour.
So the tweet is garbage as a negative point, and it's just about writing things up for when they are signed? Figures.
OT I see Guido reported on Corbyn's apparent stating he would be pm by Xmas. I've never really gotten why, if he said it, this is supposed to embarrass him. I assume it was a light hearted comment even if genuine, and correct or not hes still in a strong position.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
I've just gotten a kindle. It's fine, and essential for travel, but though I've needed to divest myself of old books to make space, I do like the look and feel of physical books . I like the display.
The joy of books is that when you're done with them, you can pass them on to a friend who you know will appreciate them.
Or, if you keep them, the ability to easily and quickly thumb your way to the page you'd like to re-read (this goes doubly so for nonfiction and technical books). Kindle's UI doesn't come close to replicating this - indeed I have bought books as a "one time" digitally only to re-buy them as real books when I found myself referring to them often.
Personally, I find it very hard to 'concentrate' on an ebook (even on e-ink as opposed to ipad) vs printed text. Although I admit this seems to be just me.
For me, the only area digital wins on is portability and overall space taken up. Given the choice, I would always prefer a physical copy.
OT I see Guido reported on Corbyn's apparent stating he would be pm by Xmas. I've never really gotten why, if he said it, this is supposed to embarrass him. I assume it was a light hearted comment even if genuine, and correct or not hes still in a strong position.
Guido's just a troll who occasionally gets a tipoff. As a source of scoops, he can be interesting; as a pundit, anyone here is better.
OT I see Guido reported on Corbyn's apparent stating he would be pm by Xmas. I've never really gotten why, if he said it, this is supposed to embarrass him. I assume it was a light hearted comment even if genuine, and correct or not hes still in a strong position.
Guido's just a troll who occasionally gets a tipoff. As a source of scoops, he can be interesting; as a pundit, anyone here is better.
"anyone"?
Can I suggest a few names who fail the pundit test?
I am happy to be corrected on this, but I do get the impression that prior to World War 2 the obtaining of a 'place' at Oxbridge - as distinct from a Scholarship or Exhibition - did not require an applicant to excel academically to anything like the extent that has been required in recent decades.In that era Oxbridge appears to have been very largely a finishing school for public schoolboys - with the exception of the Scholars and Exhibitioners who often came from the grammar schools.
Yes, you just had to want to go, and have a rich daddy. The same is true more recently of public schools. Even some Etonians lament that the rich clots' places are now given to geeks and nerds.
Eton isn't just about an academic education or league tables. It's an organic community, and continuity is part of that
OT I see Guido reported on Corbyn's apparent stating he would be pm by Xmas. I've never really gotten why, if he said it, this is supposed to embarrass him. I assume it was a light hearted comment even if genuine, and correct or not hes still in a strong position.
Guido's just a troll who occasionally gets a tipoff. As a source of scoops, he can be interesting; as a pundit, anyone here is better.
Translation - he keeps pointing out some of the awful truths about the people who make up the Labour party today.
With all this talk of books, after a year’s wait my copy of All Out War finally arrived yesterday. I think a week off PB Brexit talk to read the definitive account of the campaign might well be in order.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
I've just gotten a kindle. It's fine, and essential for travel, but though I've needed to divest myself of old books to make space, I do like the look and feel of physical books . I like the display.
The joy of books is that when you're done with them, you can pass them on to a friend who you know will appreciate them.
Or, if you keep them, the ability to easily and quickly thumb your way to the page you'd like to re-read (this goes doubly so for nonfiction and technical books). Kindle's UI doesn't come close to replicating this - indeed I have bought books as a "one time" digitally only to re-buy them as real books when I found myself referring to them often.
Personally, I find it very hard to 'concentrate' on an ebook (even on e-ink as opposed to ipad) vs printed text. Although I admit this seems to be just me.
For me, the only area digital wins on is portability and overall space taken up. Given the choice, I would always prefer a physical copy.
I can only use physical books. Many of my books are full of underlining, highlighting, and margin notes that make the book uniquely mine. Basically, I devour them. Sometimes I then burn them. Difficult with a Kindle.
I remember in 1962, I left my copy of Brothers Karazomov at home with heavy underlying on the arguments between the brothers on the existence and benevolence of God. My mother, who was a fervent Catholic, found it and was rather disturbed at my margin notes.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
@AlbertoNardelli: Main impact of Davis remarks is that EU27 want *everything* that is agreed at every stage of the talks translated into a legal text before there can be proper progress in any next stage.
How does that fit their own insistence on nothing agreed until everything is agreed . So are they a bunch of fibbers?
Being "translated into legal text" is meaningless junk. The withdrawal agreement will not be signed until the 11th hour.
The withdrawal agreement needs ratification, so the 11th hour is around 5 o'clock.
Quite. Anyone who thinks that it amusing that his own country is “ a bit shit” really has better things to do with their time than childish cod psychology of Mr Hannan.
There was another bit of cod psychology which blamed Brexit on Enid Blyton.
At each extreme, there will be people who voted for Brexit due to a highly romanticised view of their own country, and people who voted Remain because they see no good in their own country, but the former is still better than the latter.
People vote for all kinds of reasons. I know of one who voted for Brexit as he regarded the EU as a Popish plot (it's no accident it's the Treaty of Rome, apparently). I know one who voted Remain because he wanted to be able to take his dog on European holidays with him.
That view is fairly common among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians.
I've just done a search on religion in the EU, to check the balance, and I was very surprised to see how different the Baltic states are. I had assumed they would be fairly homogeneous from a religion perspective, but Estonia is primarily Orthodox, with Protestant second and Catholics almost unknown. Latvia, just one to the South, is pretty evenly split between Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, while Lithuania has virtually no protestants and is 88% Catholic.
Lithuania was part of Poland historically while Latvia and Estonia had varying degrees of control from the Teutonic Knights, Sweden and Russia.
OT I see Guido reported on Corbyn's apparent stating he would be pm by Xmas. I've never really gotten why, if he said it, this is supposed to embarrass him. I assume it was a light hearted comment even if genuine, and correct or not hes still in a strong position.
Guido's just a troll who occasionally gets a tipoff. As a source of scoops, he can be interesting; as a pundit, anyone here is better.
"anyone"?
Can I suggest a few names who fail the pundit test?
The test of being a pundit is bring wrong 90% of the time but not letting it slow down making new predictions. Most of us can manage that.
All those fervent Oxford University Remainers seem to conveniently forget that their great institution only arose because Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. Where would they be without their own academic Brexit?
And Cambridge University only came about because some big girls' blouses couldn't take a bit of Oxford "town v gown" rough and tumble.....
I am happy to be corrected on this, but I do get the impression that prior to World War 2 the obtaining of a 'place' at Oxbridge - as distinct from a Scholarship or Exhibition - did not require an applicant to excel academically to anything like the extent that has been required in recent decades.In that era Oxbridge appears to have been very largely a finishing school for public schoolboys - with the exception of the Scholars and Exhibitioners who often came from the grammar schools.
Yes, you just had to want to go, and have a rich daddy. The same is true more recently of public schools. Even some Etonians lament that the rich clots' places are now given to geeks and nerds.
Eton isn't just about an academic education or league tables. It's an organic community, and continuity is part of that
(I'll preface that this is a joke, thus ruining it)
'Organic' community eh? Like most organic things that'll explain why it's overly expensive, its benefits overhyped, and mainly used by the rich and smug.
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
I've just gotten a kindle. It's fine, and essential for travel, but though I've needed to divest myself of old books to make space, I do like the look and feel of physical books . I like the display.
The joy of books is that when you're done with them, you can pass them on to a friend who you know will appreciate them.
Or, if you keep them, the ability to easily and quickly thumb your way to the page you'd like to re-read (this goes doubly so for nonfiction and technical books). Kindle's UI doesn't come close to replicating this - indeed I have bought books as a "one time" digitally only to re-buy them as real books when I found myself referring to them often.
Personally, I find it very hard to 'concentrate' on an ebook (even on e-ink as opposed to ipad) vs printed text. Although I admit this seems to be just me.
For me, the only area digital wins on is portability and overall space taken up. Given the choice, I would always prefer a physical copy.
I can only use physical books. Many of my books are full of underlining, highlighting, and margin notes that make the book uniquely mine. Basically, I devour them. Sometimes I then burn them. Difficult with a Kindle.
I remember in 1962, I left my copy of Brothers Karazomov at home with heavy underlying on the arguments between the brothers on the existence and benevolence of God. My mother, who was a fervent Catholic, found it and was rather disturbed at my margin notes.
Agreed, I completely second this. I will highlight and make notes on all my nonfiction, but often find myself highlighting and questioning parts of literary fiction I enjoy too - the 'highlight' feature on an ebook doesn't come close to replicating the experience.
Ebooks are useful when travelling, otherwise give me the real thing every time.
One thing I really wish was possible is if I buy a physical copy, I would get a code so I have the digital copy too - thus being able to keep the real thing in my bookshelf but be able to refer to the book when travelling.
All those fervent Oxford University Remainers seem to conveniently forget that their great institution only arose because Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. Where would they be without their own academic Brexit?
And Cambridge University only came about because some big girls' blouses couldn't take a bit of Oxford "town v gown" rough and tumble.....
Humour aside, should you be serious that's looking through wrong end of the telescope. Actually I can visualise cartoons built around that general idea.
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
In which case it would not be surprising that there are several new universities in the top ten: at least six would have to be.
We can solve that problem by having individual Oxbridge colleges.
My old college came to pitch be to me the other day
They argued that because they were top of the Norrington Table and Oxford was top of the university league tables they were the best academic institution in the world...
On poly to unis and new unis, yes most are very poorly ranked. However, there are a number which are now consistently ranked in the top 10-15 in the country eg bath, Exeter, Warwick, Surrey.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
I’m fairly sure Exeter and Warwick were never polytechnics.
I said polys and new unis...
What qualifies as a new university? Does that mean anything 20C or later?
Anything that is not Aberdeen, St Andrews, Oxford or Cambridge
Glasgow was founded before Aberdeen.
In the 1960s, the term 'new university' I think referred specificially to the new institutions established on a site where there wasn't a college beforehand. When I went to a redbrick in 1971, I think the new ones were Sussex, Keele, Essex, UEA and Warwick. They were all regarded as inferior to the redbricks which in turn ranked below Oxbridge, UCL, etc.
As an alumni of Warwick it is of course now ahead of almost every red brick university in the league tables with the possible exception of Bristol albeit still behind Oxbridge, UCL, LSE and Imperial
PB readers: do you prefer physical copies of books or e-books? The latter solves the problem of shelf space.
I've just gotten a kindle. It's fine, and essential for travel, but though I've needed to divest myself of old books to make space, I do like the look and feel of physical books . I like the display.
The joy of books is that when you're done with them, you can pass them on to a friend who you know will appreciate them.
Or, if you keep them, the ability to easily and quickly thumb your way to the page you'd like to re-read (this goes doubly so for nonfiction and technical books). Kindle's UI doesn't come close to replicating this - indeed I have bought books as a "one time" digitally only to re-buy them as real books when I found myself referring to them often.
Personally, I find it very hard to 'concentrate' on an ebook (even on e-ink as opposed to ipad) vs printed text. Although I admit this seems to be just me.
For me, the only area digital wins on is portability and overall space taken up. Given the choice, I would always prefer a physical copy.
I can only use physical books. Many of my books are full of underlining, highlighting, and margin notes that make the book uniquely mine. Basically, I devour them. Sometimes I then burn them. Difficult with a Kindle.
I remember in 1962, I left my copy of Brothers Karazomov at home with heavy underlying on the arguments between the brothers on the existence and benevolence of God. My mother, who was a fervent Catholic, found it and was rather disturbed at my margin notes.
Agreed, I completely second this. I will highlight and make notes on all my nonfiction, but often find myself highlighting and questioning parts of literary fiction I enjoy too - the 'highlight' feature on an ebook doesn't come close to replicating the experience.
Ebooks are useful when travelling, otherwise give me the real thing every time.
One thing I really wish was possible is if I buy a physical copy, I would get a code so I have the digital copy too - thus being able to keep the real thing in my bookshelf but be able to refer to the book when travelling.
I'm sure most dvds offer something like this, should be doable for books.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
I'm commenting on what her typical reaction would have been to the Robbins report, given her policies during her term of office 1979-90 and especially once her majority reached 100+which meant under our system the only official opposition became the House of Lords. The article already cited on the OU contains the quote
'... The cuts in 1981 were a disaster for British higher education – some of worst things that have ever happened to higher education ...’
What was this disaster in 1981? Can't have been all that bad.
She realised - a bit late, but no matter - that the prospect of university education for their children was very popular with Conservative-voting parents. So she went into reverse on that one.... So much for "the lady`s not for turning".
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
I thought it was Major who changed the polys?
Yep. Another thing Major managed to screw up.
Though Major did leave a growing economy and won the highest number of Tory seats in 1992 than any Tory leader since Thatcher
On topic I agree with David except about laying Ruth Davidson.
I’m backing her.
If she formally announces her intention to stand at Westminster her price is going to collapse.
That's still quite a tall order -
- She would need to find a winnable and probably therefore English seat. - Win the local constituency party's nomination. - Garner sufficient support of the Parliamentary Party to go into the final ballot. - Short of there being a "coronation", win the Tory membership vote.
Taking account of the above, it might require a two stage process for her to become say the leader after next, which could take 9 years or more and by which time there are likely to be other, as yet unidentified contenders.
I think there are several Scottish seats she could easily win on current polling - if they became vacant.
Cuckoo
Ahem - border seats, Aberdeenshire seats - you really think the Tories will lose them all on current polling. You obviously haven't had your daily turnip yet.
John Lamont has spent his career trying g to become MP of BRS, he gave up his Holyrood seat to do so - he isn't moving.
Dumfries and Galloway has a large Labour 3rd place to squeeze for an anti-terrorism vote.
Only DCT of the borders seat is a viable seat for Mundell to step down and Davidson to take over.
Oh indeed - my point was simply that Ruth could easily win a Scottish seat if one came up.
LOL, in other words you were talking out of your rectum.
Comments
Trump is now odds AGAINST for a vote of impeachment to be passed in the House.
Certainly, that is not the same as actually impeaching the guy which is largely the responsibility of the Senate.
But still...
Mr. F, psychology itself varies from being biology to sociology, with a fair smattering of politics and bullshit in the centre and fringes respectively.
One thing I’ve realised with my books - after four years or so they start to decay....
So much so that she promoted all the polytechnics to universities, without changing anything more than their names. These have been the butt of derision for all right-thinking PB Tories ever since.
Stop reading them in the bath!
@MarkHopkins
How technology is being used to solve the most important problems in today's world.
What is the point in B'ham City Univ? The city already has Birmingham (a standard red brick univ) and Aston (a technological univ.) It seems it also began as a College of Art. I went to a conference there in 2016 on technology. Doesn't seem very arty, I later thought, when I found this out.
I think her biggest problem is being in the rather un-newsworthy role at DFID, but it’s easy to see how a reshuffle or two in the next year could see her bumped into something more high-profile.
So basically, you can use it in the rain. But I wouldn't intentionally put it in the bath, or use it in one. And all bets are off with saltwater, so don't go swimming in the sea.
* Some would argue they actually made some polys that were quite good at a particular specialism worse as they were forced to offer a much wider range of courses.
In my experience they also seem to be some of the most pro-business / pro entrepreneur friendly institutions ie more akin to good us institutions, compared to some of the traditional institutions.
The one with the smallest proportion of Protestants (0.0%) is Greek Cyprus.
And the lowest proportion non-believers/atheists/agnostics (0.3%) is Romania.
The lowest level of Christianity (31.5%) is in the Czech Republic.
For prose I'm prety much exclusively e-books these days but until an affordable large format e-reader comes out for technical books I'm a computer pdf or (much preferably) physical person.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/remarkable-paper-tablet
It's also bloody pricey compared to a 100 quid standard e-reader.
It is expensive, but it isn't as e-reader. The surface is like paper. The videos I have seen of it in action makes it appear much more akin to reading and writing on paper than anything else that is out there.
https://twitter.com/ClarityToast/status/941691930047631360?s=17
The domain of the bitcoin 'company' that was acquired was registered by the Longfin CEO.
A cigar company said it was pivoting I to crypto and saw its shares increase 700%
https://www.wired.com/2017/09/review-remarkable-paper-tablet/
The bigger issue for me with all these e-ink based devices...No colour. If I am reading an academic paper and there are a load of diagrams or charts, with no colour it is often impossible to work out what is being illustrated.
I picked up on Exeter because I was born there and remember the University as a fixture of the city as I was growing up and so never really thought of it as particularly new.
MA History. Leicester.
Unusually, it remained mostly Pagan, until 1386, when its king converted to Catholicism, in order to become king of Poland, uniting both crowns. But, paganism survived up till the counter-reformation.
Or, if you keep them, the ability to easily and quickly thumb your way to the page you'd like to re-read (this goes doubly so for nonfiction and technical books). Kindle's UI doesn't come close to replicating this - indeed I have bought books as a "one time" digitally only to re-buy them as real books when I found myself referring to them often.
Personally, I find it very hard to 'concentrate' on an ebook (even on e-ink as opposed to ipad) vs printed text. Although I admit this seems to be just me.
For me, the only area digital wins on is portability and overall space taken up. Given the choice, I would always prefer a physical copy.
Can I suggest a few names who fail the pundit test?
RIP
I remember in 1962, I left my copy of Brothers Karazomov at home with heavy underlying on the arguments between the brothers on the existence and benevolence of God. My mother, who was a fervent Catholic, found it and was rather disturbed at my margin notes.
/pedant
https://www.axios.com/the-next-battle-trump-to-take-on-china-2517931805.html?utm_source=sidebar
And Cambridge University only came about because some big girls' blouses couldn't take a bit of Oxford "town v gown" rough and tumble.....
'Organic' community eh? Like most organic things that'll explain why it's overly expensive, its benefits overhyped, and mainly used by the rich and smug.
Ebooks are useful when travelling, otherwise give me the real thing every time.
One thing I really wish was possible is if I buy a physical copy, I would get a code so I have the digital copy too - thus being able to keep the real thing in my bookshelf but be able to refer to the book when travelling.
Actually I can visualise cartoons built around that general idea.
They argued that because they were top of the Norrington Table and Oxford was top of the university league tables they were the best academic institution in the world...