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Local News
I’m looking forward to tonight’s Annual Chaos Society Physics Ball, in advance of which I’ll have to go home to get my glad rags sorted out. This posh night out should provide some welcome fun at the...
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Loose Ends
Just a brief post today, I think, in order to tie up a few loose ends from this week. For reasons that I really don’t understand my blog suddenly became very popular on Thursday (31st March),...
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Local Matters
I think I’ve caught up with most of the signficant things that happened during my travels, so I thought I’d end this series of updates with some local news from Cardiff (and Wales generally). First, I...
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Welsh fee plans up in the air…
I had just finished the exciting job of marking my examinations and collating all the results with coursework when I noticed a rumour circulating on twitter about the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Cardiff News
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about local affairs, but the emergence of three items of news in the past few days has given me an opportunity to remedy that. First, and hot off the press this...
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Acting and Clearing
Now that I’m back from my trip to Copenhagen, it’s going to be back to work with a vengeance. To those of you who think academics have massively long summer breaks, I can tell you that mine ends on...
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Stellar Research?
I heard today that Chief Scientific Advisor to the Welsh Government, John Harries, has called for Welsh universities to be more “predatory” in attracting “star researchers” to Wales. At first sight I...
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A Healthy Increase
Up early again this morning, I thought I’d do a quick post because I just remembered that there’s a bit of a loose end I’ve left dangling for a week or so owing to my recent indisposition. I posted...
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Admissions Latest
Only time for a short post today, so I thought I’d just pass on a link to the latest Higher Education application statistics, as reported by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)....
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Open for Clearing in Physics and Astronomy
It being A-level results day, I thought I’d try a little experiment and use this blog to broadcast an unofficial announcement that, owing to additional government funding for high-achieving subjects,...
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Farewell, then, Leighton Andrews…
Although I no longer live in Wales I couldn’t resist commenting on the resignation, announced on Tuesday, of the Welsh Education Minister, Leighton Andrews. It seems that Mr Andrews was spotted holding...
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