Weinberger suggests that ‘everything is miscellaneous’ – and there is much to agree with in his world view. But one of the biggest puzzles to me is why so many blogs are just collections or quotes of other people’s views/pictures/videos? Are blogs also just miscellany at heart? Does it matter? Is miscellany just another word [...]

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Business as usual

Despite the fact that we are being reviewed this week, business in the Institute carries on as normal. We are just completing our annual promotions round. Ideally, everyone submits a refreshed and revised CV to the promotions panel (consisting of all the managers) who (a) provide feedback on the presentation of the CV – the [...]

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Beyond Current Horizons

Last week spent a couple of fascinating days in the company of some wonderfully stimulating people. We gathered under the auspice of FutureLab as the Expert Advisory Group for the Beyond Current Horizons programme, which aims to provide a ‘long term and challenging vision for education in the context of socio-technological change to 2025 and [...]

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