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Google News Lab partnering with university journalism departments Paid Members Public
Journalism education in the UK has a digital problem. I’ve worked with a number of universities offering journalism degrees now – and there’s a consistent pattern. While there are a few bright spots of very deep digital knowledge, it’s unevenly spread, even within individual departments. It’s no
Prof Brian Cox on the anti-expert mood Paid Members Public
> It’s entirely wrong, and it’s the road back to the cave. The way we got out of the caves and into modern civilisation is through the process of understanding and thinking. Those things were not done by gut instinct. Being an expert does not mean that you
In Memoriam: Professor Lisa Jardine Paid Members Public
I’ve had two truly memorable interviews in my life. In one, one of the interviewers was clearly drunk, and her colleague was more interested in giving her the stink eye than in interviewing me – yet I got the job anyway. In the other, for a place at university, the
Investigating the impact of Data & Society Paid Members Public
Well, this looks very interesting [http://www.datasociety.net/initiatives/fellows-program/]: > Data & Society is currently looking to assemble its inaugural class of fellows. The fellowship program is intended to bring together an eclectic network of researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy creators, journalists, geeks, and public intellectuals who are interested
Institutional Knowledge Transfer (journalism edition) Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/city-uni-lecture-room.jpg] Actually, as annoyed as I am with BT – 11 days without phone and broadband and counting – that’s far from the only reason I’ve been quiet. I’ve been to Berlin for NEXT Service Design [http:
physics is hard, and that's a good thing Paid Members Public
While I was away in France, the annual fracas over improved A level results broke out. Now, I know where I stand on this; I know people who work and teach in Higher Education and they’re seeing a decline in the educational quality of freshers, not an improvement. Here’
The UK's Educational Death Spiral Paid Members Public
A couple of things caught my eye in the papers over lunch *(I know, I know. Dead tree papers. How very 20th century of me.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * *The first up was this piece about the declining standard of UK graduates [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/
