This is from the FT, pointing out that the means testing of parental contribution to students maintenance, has some perverse side effects.

The UK’s hidden one-child-per-family university policy. Supporting two children studying at university could cost much more than you think.

And even when parents do cough up the parental contribution, that doesn’t mean the full maintenance loan amount is enough. For a good chunk, it doesn’t cover basic costs. Students on courses with long hours who can’t secure a part-time job are in trouble, but most won’t hear about this until they get to university as the debate is so skewed towards focusing on the ‘debt’.

I am still shocked at how many of our medical students work part time. That may say as much as about me, as them.

Wikipedia has some (quoted) beautiful lines about the greatest fly half that I had the pleasure to watch on so many occasions at the old Arms Park.

[Barry] John ran in another dimension of time and space. His opponents ran into the glass walls which covered his escape routes from their bewildered clutches

“The field of educational technology, largely ignorant of its own history, seems eternally condemned to repeat itself.”

Nature review of a book on the PLATO project. The internet that wasn’t

I hae been updating skincancer909. I am way behind schedule, but at last sorting out some of the typos and creating some more videos. Here is one of the ‘in one minute’ efforts. Enjoy. It will be finished soon. Honest.

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Prevention in one minute from jonathan rees on Vimeo.

Take salary: as Mrs. Neal told us during her crash course, you’ll carry your whole life the compound price of an un-negotiated first salary.

From Frederic Filloux in the Monday Note. A great article which, whilst focussed on the topic of journalism schools, has bags of relevance to future and therefore present day medical schools. The professional schools have a lot in common.

 

This is from the FT, pointing out that means testing of parental contribution to student maintenance, has some perverse side effects.

“The UK’s hidden one-child-per-family university policy. Supporting two children studying at university could cost much more than you think.

And even when parents do cough up the parental contribution, that doesn’t mean the full maintenance loan amount is enough. For a good chunk, it doesn’t cover basic costs. Students on courses with long hours who can’t secure a part-time job are in trouble, but most won’t hear about this until they get to university as the debate is so skewed towards focusing on the ‘debt’.”

I am still shocked by how many of our medical students work part time. That says as much about me, as them.

“The field of educational technology, largely ignorant of its own history, seems eternally condemned to repeat itself.”

Nature review of a book on the PLATO project: The Internet that wasn’t.

This is from a review of Jaron Lanier’s new book, in Nature. I think these comments give a flavour of one arm of the pincer movement that will hit higher education over the next decade.

What struck me most was the originality of Lanier’s trajectory as a research pioneer. His technological trailblazing and vision have led to him sitting on the faculties and boards of big universities. But the book shows that a conventional academic career might have hindered him considerably. As he reveals with tales of his development of VR programming languages and the VPL experience, he carved out the freedom to follow his scientific curiosity, unlike many a postdoc or tenure-track faculty member. That is a useful insight at a time when technology research is thriving outside academia, as Google’s DeepMind and other technology companies lead the way in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and, of course, VR.

Nature

He is one of 10 case studies in Black Tudors, an enlightening and constantly surprising book about the men and women of African origin who found themselves on a cold island on the fringe of Europe amid a pale and pockmarked people.

Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann — a hidden history

“The NHS will have a workforce plan for the first time since 2000, England’s secretary of state for health has announced.”

BMJ