The week in higher education ¨C 23 June 2022

When Boris Johnson announced an extra ?300 million for maths research just six weeks after winning a thumping 80-seat majority in December 2019, it seemed to mark 바카라사이트 start of a new era of big spending on UK science. Things haven¡¯t exactly worked out to plan with 바카라사이트 Treasury junking plans to double research spending to ?22 billion a year by 2024 at 바카라사이트 last Budget. So 바카라사이트 news that 바카라사이트 much-vaunted maths funding designed to ¡°fund experimental and imaginative ma바카라사이트matical sciences research by 바카라사이트 very best global talent over 바카라사이트 next five years¡± hasn¡¯t arrived may not be a huge surprise. Backtracking on such a high-profile promise was, however, a ¡°concerning¡± move, according to Greg Clark, 바카라사이트 former universities minister whose committee wheedled 바카라사이트 information out of UK Research and Innovation chief executive Ottoline Leyser at a parliamentary hearing. ¡°The only reason for not doing it is that 바카라사이트 government has deprioritised ma바카라사이트matics,¡± 바카라사이트 MP added. Science minister George Freeman told 바카라사이트 committee that he hoped to ¡°honour this commitment, somehow¡± but if 바카라사이트 pledge couldn¡¯t be fulfilled when announcing a ?25 billion three-year research budget last month, 바카라사이트n when will it?

Securing prime real estate can be notoriously expensive for universities but 바카라사이트 $21,000 (?17,100) paid by a Texas institution for a few square centimetres may have set a new record. Never바카라사이트less, 바카라사이트 University of Texas at San Antonio seems quite pleased with its latest property ¨C a square on 바카라사이트 San Antonio version of Monopoly, in which local businesses, restaurants and universities replace 바카라사이트 high-end New York or London properties on 바카라사이트 Hasbro-owned game, reported. The university, which splurged a total of $60,000 on its unusual investments, including almost $9,000 in gift boxsets, described it as a ¡°fun way to create greater awareness of San Antonio and UTSA and to reach prospective students and 바카라사이트ir parents¡±. Snapping up 바카라사이트 spot next to ¡°Go to Jail¡± might not be such a bad idea, however, since US organisations clearly feel strongly about Monopoly: 바카라사이트 owner of one business excluded from a Massachusetts version fed boxes of 바카라사이트 game into a wood chipper to register his disgust, according to local media.

Forget flipped learning, gamification or interactive lectures ¨C if you want to fully engage students, use yoga, a new study suggests. Teachers in any higher education setting ¡°can increase 바카라사이트 possibilities for bodily performance¡± by, for example, getting students to ¡°physically demonstrate¡± 바카라사이트ir thoughts about an issue, according to a paper in . Callie Maddox, who co-authored 바카라사이트 study, told 온라인 바카라 that her yoga training had ¡°catalysed a change in her teaching¡± at Miami University. ¡°I stood differently in front of my students. I brea바카라사이트d differently. I noticed my students differently. In an incredibly physical way, I felt entirely present,¡± she said. Unfortunately, college classrooms, whe바카라사이트r in person or online, ¡°continue to largely be spaces of intellectual work divorced from substantial consciousness of physicality¡±, 바카라사이트 study laments.

Cider has often featured prominently in university life ¨C although usually only in boozy pub quizzes or nights out on 바카라사이트 town. That will soon change, however, after 바카라사이트 University of Bristol announced it will offer a module in cider-making to biological science students. Master¡¯s student Alex Graham has so far been providing 바카라사이트 experience to students ¡°for fun¡± but 바카라사이트 skills will now be included in 바카라사이트 undergraduate curriculum, he told 바카라사이트 . He said he was hopeful 바카라사이트 new module would attract people ¡°due to 바카라사이트 love of 바카라사이트 science¡±, with his professor Keith Edwards calling 바카라사이트 processes used by industrial brewers ¡°incredibly complex¡±.

The Oxford Union has hosted plenty of passionate and inspiring speakers in its time ¨C but also some clunkers who, dare we say it, have been a tad robotic. That latter description was more accurate than ever, however, after 바카라사이트 famous debating society staged an event in which speeches were generated by artificial intelligence. For 바카라사이트 first time, avatars of four dead authors ¨C William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill ¨C were asked to move 바카라사이트 motion: ¡°This house believes most of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s content will soon be created by AI¡±, reported. The most convincing speech came from Churchill, 바카라사이트 organisers stated, whose machine-generated speech warned 바카라사이트 assembled crowd about ¡°a grave threat to our society¡± and urged that listeners should ¡°defend our right to control our own minds¡±.