Yes, only a minority are ever really engaged & many continuing to ignore clear and repeated guidance but % showing up to teaching is higher than last couple of years, & doing optional formative assessment doubled (although this is 1 academics experience at 1 university so was original post!)
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Yes, only a minority are ever really engaged & many continuing to ignore clear and repeated guidance but % showing up to teaching is higher than last couple of years, & doing optional formative assessment doubled (although this is 1 academics experience at 1 university so was original post!)
Yes, not real in my experience, this years 1st years more engage than last couple of years
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Yes, not real in my experience, this years 1st years more engage than last couple of years
I’d agree with this. I’ve been covering a 1st year class for a sick colleague. There’s an optional formative assessment, in recent years only 25% have done it, this year I had 50%. Other colleagues report similar experiences
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’d agree with this. I’ve been covering a 1st year class for a sick colleague. There’s an optional formative assessment, in recent years only 25% have done it, this year I had 50%. Other colleagues report similar experiences
Weird, I’m a northerner and I just press a button in the HL app and the money moves to my bank account?
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Weird, I’m a northerner and I just press a button in the HL app and the money moves to my bank account?
Yes, this a real tell about whether the author has experienced poverty or not. Paul Johnson’s Times article a particularly egregious case. No one who has experienced poverty would write this (eg compare with Tim Leunig)
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes, this a real tell about whether the author has experienced poverty or not. Paul Johnson’s Times article a particularly egregious case. No one who has experienced poverty would write this (eg compare with Tim Leunig)
I.e. Japan a really big version of Malta if Luftwaffe had continued to focus on it in 1942 & pedestal had failed
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I.e. Japan a really big version of Malta if Luftwaffe had continued to focus on it in 1942 & pedestal had failed
In ETO strategic bombing on its own could not have won the war on its own, so Harris’s counterfactual self serving nonsense. Not sure this would’ve been the case in Japan even without Atom bombs, strategic bombing + naval blockade could’ve starved Japan to collapse?
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
In ETO strategic bombing on its own could not have won the war on its own, so Harris’s counterfactual self serving nonsense. Not sure this would’ve been the case in Japan even without Atom bombs, strategic bombing + naval blockade could’ve starved Japan to collapse?
LeMay had a better case than Harris?
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
LeMay had a better case than Harris?
Tbf I don’t think I read anything written after about 1998 because they are so boring, but there were some good IPPR & Fabian ones in the mid 90s. Demos not so much. IPPR was important in terms of doing New Labour staff work. No one seems to do staff work anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Tbf I don’t think I read anything written after about 1998 because they are so boring, but there were some good IPPR & Fabian ones in the mid 90s. Demos not so much. IPPR was important in terms of doing New Labour staff work. No one seems to do staff work anymore.
The point of pamphlets is the writing/thinking. I don’t want to read them but it is important to write them
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The point of pamphlets is the writing/thinking. I don’t want to read them but it is important to write them
This worked for me with skibidi toilet
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This worked for me with skibidi toilet
Keep going, in a few years time their friends will start commenting “your Dad’s really funny” at which point you’ve won
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Keep going, in a few years time their friends will start commenting “your Dad’s really funny” at which point you’ve won
This study clearly has limitations with measurement and inference but I’m sceptical that a study would necessarily produce better data. Getting people to complete surveys is hard and assumptions that non response is random seem optimistic
October 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This study clearly has limitations with measurement and inference but I’m sceptical that a study would necessarily produce better data. Getting people to complete surveys is hard and assumptions that non response is random seem optimistic
I’m curious as to why you think a study would be superior? Getting good data is really hard. Non-response bias, social desirability bias
October 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m curious as to why you think a study would be superior? Getting good data is really hard. Non-response bias, social desirability bias
Repeat please *disregards rules of engagement and shoots down Russian plane*
September 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Repeat please *disregards rules of engagement and shoots down Russian plane*
Two very good boys?
September 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Two very good boys?
I am not in the emailing Harry Cole demographic but it’s big news for my teenager who was v familiar with Kirk from TikTok
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I am not in the emailing Harry Cole demographic but it’s big news for my teenager who was v familiar with Kirk from TikTok
Do you have a crew cut and are you wearing trainers?
September 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Do you have a crew cut and are you wearing trainers?
I read Wolf Hall on kindle and enjoyed it so much I decided to get the next one in hardback so I’d have the physical artefact. The problem is it is literally too big to read comfortably and I’ve never read it. Should’ve been a 9 book series not a trilogy
September 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I read Wolf Hall on kindle and enjoyed it so much I decided to get the next one in hardback so I’d have the physical artefact. The problem is it is literally too big to read comfortably and I’ve never read it. Should’ve been a 9 book series not a trilogy
Advancement has been in the UKRI scoring criteria for scoring grant applications for as long as I can remember
August 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Advancement has been in the UKRI scoring criteria for scoring grant applications for as long as I can remember
It’s a great piece of writing; it makes me feel an enormous sense of relief that I’m too old and settled to have to go to bars and try to bond with potential significant others over shared passions!
August 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It’s a great piece of writing; it makes me feel an enormous sense of relief that I’m too old and settled to have to go to bars and try to bond with potential significant others over shared passions!
Their parents were also pre-f*cked up by their fathers being killed or having shocking PTSD and dodgy lungs from the Great War (both my parents maternal grandfathers were killed)
August 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Their parents were also pre-f*cked up by their fathers being killed or having shocking PTSD and dodgy lungs from the Great War (both my parents maternal grandfathers were killed)