There is something wrong about Camelot, the new TV telling of the Arthurian Legend. It could be the stilted acting, it might be the anachronistic language of the script, perhaps it is the fact that Eva Green always makes me feel a little ill (I swear that woman has a touch of the fey about […]
Year: 2011
The Poor Elite
So the government is shocked and surprised that Universities want to use the new fees system to recover all the money they lost through the HE funding cuts. Most V-Cs seem to think that a charge of 7.5k to 8k would allow them to balance the books again, and many of the UKs stronger Unis […]
Chasing EdShare: In Pursuit of a Usable Teaching and Learning Repository
The last five years or so has been an incredible time to be involved in e-learning. We’ve seen the rise and demise of the Digital Native, the flight and delight of students and academics to Web 2.0 systems, and the attempted murder of the VLE (we now know that reports of its death have been […]
How To Vote
So later this year the UK will go to the polls for a referendum on changing our voting system. It will be the first national referendum since 1975. It will also be a massive waste of time and money. Now if we were proposing changing the voting system to something with real constitutional bite – […]