Hollow is a great description. I am similarly "figuring out" my thoughts, but "generic that might be useful to someone with expertise" is the best I've got to so far. Given the nun, I am repurposing All Hallows and imagining an AI school called All Hollows.

Separately of course is the body of work that says STEM courses are so choc full that students don’t have time to think.

…less sense of how taught curriculum is changing. Are courses really being dropped? What about core learning hours? (Of course we were too content heavy so this may not be a bad thing). Any thanks for voicing and need more coffee to ponder more.

… so I’m moving to a position where I’d prefer instead a set of core competencies (what I’ve framed elsewhere under ‘doing chemistry’ but would include your Problem Solving) that should be evident in a lab curriculum. And that will take a time but perhaps less rigid than a fixed number. I have…

A lot to ponder here thanks for writing. Core issue is that “300” has somewhat protected labs from prying eyes. They have to be there but who knows (cares) what they are. 300 hours in a lab is very different depending on how many in a group (I’ve heard tales of 6!) and what students do…

Wow! Looks like it was a great meeting this time. Sorry to miss it.

Isn’t this where we met?! Enjoy!

Bring up the bodies took a whole summer! I only came to them after the first TV series which probably helped

Quite a year! While perhaps not as tangible as an output I think that first year in a new place is one where you can tune into differences and so think about things in a different way. Hope you’ve got over that dratted cold!

Amazing thanks! Bradshaw is the one I was after. Now in the queue!

Thanks! Just enjoying yours by return. And yes, despite good taste in abbeys, Watson probably the safer choice.

Thanks. Separately the Venn diagram of Hilary Mantel, all the abbeys & monasteries around here and my own interests have meant that I’m becoming borderline obsessed with dissolution. I’ve read that in Irish context it happened much later. Is there any good reading on it?