August 26, 2009
One of the great things about this morning’s (so far peaceful) cat and mouse start to Climate Camp has been the way the media and police were kept guessing as to the eventual location. Yes, I know it annoyed Jack Straw and others and, in the greater sense of doing good by everybody, the organisers should really have […]
August 26, 2009
Biased though I may be as a research professional, might the reason so much of the traffic on Twitter is counted as pointless babble because the entry box reads: What are you doing? Given that many people engage with social media, online news and the cricket during their lunch hour (and, it seems, more and […]
August 26, 2009
Can’t help but wonder if tricks are being missed all over the developed world. People are spending large amounts of pounds (£££) to divest themselves of large amounts of pounds (lbs), largely because they’ve spent too many of the former on eating too many of the latter in the first place. The easy answer is not […]
August 25, 2009
Success where measured against intrinsic goals … was seen to be psychologically nourishing. A June study in the Journal of Research in Personality sheds new and interesting findings on the concept of happiness at work within a graduate context. Running a series of psychological surveys with 147 alumni from two universities, once twelve months after graduation […]
August 25, 2009
(blŏg snôr’kəlĭng) n. The act of searching through blogs manually, especially as part of managing your online reputation. More people should use this term.
August 21, 2009
It’s all well and good for David Lammy to continue to beat a drum for Higher Education but is it not now time to ask what benefit the Government policy of pushing people into University courses, regardless of desire or appropriateness, produces for the individuals or for society? New data from The Push Student Debt […]
August 21, 2009
(grād’vər-tī’zĭng) n. The activity of attracting public attention to a graduate job or career, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media. The business of designing and writing advertisements for such jobs.
August 20, 2009
And also a bit of a nutter give what he’s trying to do! Puts my 500km into the shade rather… For those of you who don’t know, he’s trying to run from London to Cardiff to Belfast to Edinburgh to London – 30 miles a day, one day off every seven – and he’s not […]
August 19, 2009
Always up for a campaign with downloadable tools – especially ones that go whizz. Let’s hope the campaign can be as interactive as the button.
August 28, 2009
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