@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Attleeton would be better to pronounce as Attleton
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Mark Porter
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🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns
- Elizabethtown (after the Queen)
- Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline)
- Attleeton (after ex-PM)
- Athelstan (first King of England)
- Seacole (after nurse Mary)
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@LucySixsmith growing up in a small anglican church, one of the old ladies was rumoured to be his aunty
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@mrmarkporter I was once told (with zero explanation) that I looked like Cliff Richard's grand-daughter, so maybe I'm supposed to be able to make this happen. Not sure it would help though
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Is it over-fussy to feel a bit dispirited by the idea of a Lord's Prayer Tour
Archbishop of York@CottrellStephen
On Thursday I will be at @MancDiocese for the next leg of my Lord’s Prayer Tour. You can read more about it here: bit.ly/3NGFiHl The Lord's Prayer is not just a prayer, but a way of learning how to live, a way of educating ourselves to know what God's will is for our lives and our world.
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For those out of the UK, this morning’s BBC Breakfast coverage of the return of those #DoctorWho Daleks Master Plan episodes
(Part 1)
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@timeshighered @JulietteRowsell WTF How do they come up with even more ways of making everything worse?
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Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research-intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution, reports @JulietteRowsell
timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffield…
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@percy_gryce I think for this to work well you'd need to give them more freedom to shape the curriculum that they teach
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We need to normalize PhDs teaching high school. That solves at least two problems: absorbs some of the elite overproduction and put subject-matter experts (rather than ed school grads) in hs classrooms. (I know there are other problems.)
Stephen G. Adubato@stephengadubato
Out of my 10 friends who got phds in the humanities in the last few years, only 2 got tenure track jobs. The rest are doomed to teach high school…or adjunct.
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@app_settings what happened to flower power and blue dalmation?
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this is what the MacBook Neo would’ve looked like if came in the iMac’s colors btw
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@giulio_mattioli There seems to be a German concept of guest which is all about being super subservient to your host rather than about being offered good hospitality
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I find the idea that EU citizens exercising their freedom of movement ought to be "grateful" deeply odd. If you moved from NRW to Bayern for family reasons no one would expect you to be "grateful" towards Bayern, would they?
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A survey: "A minority of EU immigrants in Germany wants to leave the country because of issues they experience"
Me "I am not surprised"
Replies: "Why are you ungrateful!"
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@derJamesJackson the barriers have always existed there though. The difference is that the pluses that compensated for them are disappearing
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For the first time in 15 years, more EU workers are leaving Germany than arriving due to discrimination, language barriers and exploitation
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@MadsDavies From an American context, this piece by maria guarino is also fascinating ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume…
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@MadsDavies It doesn’t focus specifically on cathedral schools but Anna Bull’s work on class, control, and classical music is a lens I’d find pretty relevant here
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I'm starting to research a piece on cathedral schools. This was a recent letter to CT following news of closure at Exeter
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Small change:
Looks like Apple updated the keyboard on the new M5 16‑inch MacBook Pro. The Backspace, Return, Shift, and Tab labels are gone, replaced with symbols instead.
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Der iranische Botschafter wurde heute ins Auswärtige Amt einbestellt. Wir haben das iranische Regime unmissverständlich dazu aufgefordert, seine rücksichtslosen Angriffe auf Staaten der Region unverzüglich einzustellen. 1/2
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@giulio_mattioli Presumably on this basis I should also be trying to pressure my German university to stop offering part-time contracts to wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
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@giulio_mattioli I don’t really get how he thinks you can have any feeling of prosperity without having work life balance.
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German conservative discourse believes in Schrödinger's Germans.
So hardworking that they support with their hard-earned tax money lazy refugees, Southern Europeans and French pensioners.
But so lazy that they have 4-week working days and mostly call in sick.
Clash Report@clashreport
German Chancellor Merz: We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true. But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly. With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.
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Mark Porter retweetledi
The reason AI is so threatening to academia is because of the choice of university leaders and government to fully reorient the purpose of universities entirely around routine outputs (essays, degrees, REF submissions, etc.) and not intrinsically valuable processes.
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@giulio_mattioli Germany really going for the ridiculousness award this week – Munich airport, the film festival, the pinnochio thing, this...
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I had no idea you could be sued for screenshotting an article in Germany 😳😱
James Jackson@derJamesJackson
I need your help paying the fine from a malicious SLAPP suit. Protect independent journalism against government aligned “NGOs”
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Small journey on the newly refurbished voyager 👀
220033 takes me from Reading to Oxford
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