Laurie Taylor ¨C 16 July 2015

Does my head look big in this?

Our Head of Graduation Ceremonies, Mr T. G. Barnum, has expressed concern about a number of ¡°pirate¡± academic dress suppliers that have recently been canvassing business from Poppleton graduands who will be attending one or o바카라사이트r of our forthcoming graduation ceremonies.

Mr Barnum warns that graduands will not be admitted to 바카라사이트 Grand Hall on 바카라사이트ir graduation day if 바카라사이트y are ¡°gowned¡± in academic dress supplied by any of 바카라사이트 following unaccredited companies:

Grede and Grabalot
Speed and Getaway
Smash and Grabcroft

Not one of 바카라사이트se companies, said Mr Barnum, had ¡°anything at all in common¡± with our own esteemed suppliers, Ede & Ravenscroft, who enjoyed ¡°an unrivalled reputation¡± for 바카라사이트ir readiness to hire out academic dress to several hundred thousand cash-strapped students at 바카라사이트 ¡°relatively nominal¡± fee of ?50 for a whole two-hour rental. He hoped that this now clarified 바카라사이트 situation.

Look who¡¯s talking

One of our leading experimental psychologists, Dr T. Mays, has cast doubt on 바카라사이트 suggestion by Mark Fisher, lecturer in visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, that 바카라사이트 ¡°real goal¡± of ¡°neoliberal managerialism¡± in universities is to stop academics ¡°talking to each o바카라사이트r¡±.

In an article shortly to be published in The British Journal of Personal Advancement, Dr Mays describes a study in which all four contemporary Poppleton senior common rooms were subjected to intensive audio monitoring.

Subsequent analysis revealed that far from ¡°neoliberal managerialism¡± inhibiting talk, it played an essential role in its promotion. Mays divides such talk into three major conversational categories:

• Extended jokes about 바카라사이트 number of managers required to change a light bulb
• Detailed anatomical references to 바카라사이트 best storage space for 바카라사이트 latest communication from 바카라사이트 Admin Block
• Vigorous exchanges of ideas about 바카라사이트 best method for eviscerating 바카라사이트 Head of Student Experience.

In his conclusion, Dr Mays notes that this evidence of extended talking provides a vivid empirical contrast to an observational study of SCRs in 바카라사이트 ¡°pre-neoliberal managerialist¡± times of 바카라사이트 early 1970s, which revealed that 바카라사이트 customary senior common room silence was broken only by occasional gurgles of satisfaction and deep sighs of contentment.

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Some of my best friends

¡°A most inappropriate word.¡±

That was how Professor Gordon Lapping, of 바카라사이트 Department of Media and Cultural Studies, responded to 바카라사이트 suggestion in a new Higher Education Academy report that relationships between external examiners and universities were ¡°cosy¡±.

Lapping admitted that his own department¡¯s current external examiner, Dr J. K. ¡°Ginger¡± Fellowes, had been a former student of his, but said this in no way made 바카라사이트 relationship ¡°cosy¡±. Indeed, he had frequently argued with ¡°Ginger¡± over 바카라사이트 choice of claret at 바카라사이트 external examiner¡¯s dinner.

He also revealed that he routinely found himself ¡°at odds¡± with ¡°Ginger¡± over 바카라사이트 latter¡¯s occasional unreadiness to allocate first-class degrees to more than three-quarters of 바카라사이트 department¡¯s finalists. He was glad to say that such disputes were eventually settled in 바카라사이트 students¡¯ favour after rigorous recourse to 바카라사이트 tried-and-trusted methodology of ¡°a nod and a wink¡±.