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Brendan

Brendan

Mainly interested in higher education in an international context. Also interested in the role technology plays in changing culture/society.
scottshigeoka: Interesting graph supported by US DOE info on correlation between socioeconomic status and #university admissions http://tcftakingnote.typepad.com/...
Good summary by Will Hammonds of the UUK scenarios project - Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-... via @BC_CIHE
KeithHampson: Ryan Craig: massive online courses not a game changing innovation | http://www.insidehighered.com/views...
sjwku: Interesting read for those interested in HE management and IR (yes, both of you!): https://www.airweb.org/Educati...
policyreviewtv: All the videos and docs from today's #LearningComesFirst event organised by @Cam_Assessment is now available here: http://www.policyreview.tv/confere...
RT @ucas_online: Latest applicant statistics and analysis for 2012 entry now published: http://www.ucas.com/about_u...
GiftedPhoenix: Anonymised NPD data will be made available by DfE 'from June 2012' - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa... (Col WA249)
Hansard coverage of yesterday's debate on postgraduate education http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...
HanoverHigherEd: (Not) Using Data for Decisions | http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
RT @1994group: Government funding letter offers few answers http://www.1994group.ac.uk/newsite...
Pauling's good ideas vs bad ideas #lwf - 7yo son spontaneously said "if you've got a bad idea you can always change it in to a good idea "
VC_UEL: BTEC & OCR are great quals. But here are the AAB equivalent quals rejected by HEFCE at the 11th hour on a split vote: http://scouts.org.uk/support...
RT @HE_Global: @fawcettbj #HEGlobal - we R also running roadshows at universities arnd the UK - check http://heglobal.international.ac.uk/news...
Interesting question on the front page of newly launched HE Global http://heglobal.international.ac.uk/ - Tell us what you need?
Finding it strange that the first bit of CES coverage I've read this year is this AdAge piece http://m.adage.com/article...
universityboy: Students are already consumers - but will we get cannier? (Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/educati...
markmleach: Important stuff MT @wonkhe: 'UG is an election issue, research is an economic issue PG students are a non-issue' http://t.co/qvlluXUj”
RT @Nuffic: Dutch higher education is facing strategic choices #highered http://www.nuffic.nl/interna...
This YouTube vid of Virgin ad on Senate House is pretty impressive. http://www.youtube.com/watch... via @shayne_lambie
This YouTube vid of Virgin ad on Senate House is pretty impressive. http://t.co/sPbea4cj via @shayne_lambie
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markmleach: Here's a tool that some HE wonks might like. Let's you compare HEIs/groups of HEIs in a whole manner of different ways: http://www.enterprisinguniversities.co.uk/...
uniworldnews: SINGAPORE: Doubts about fifth public university http://www.universityworldnews.com/article...
SchoolDuggery: Here is the data that forms the basis of today's Oxbridge Telegraph story. NB 0 means 0-2, so story a bit wrong http://www.parliament.uk/deposit...
julianskyrme: V interesting (& depressing!) figs breaking England’s 150 local authorities' Oxbridge & Russell Group entrants http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educati...
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guardiantech: The fallout from the Fukushima disaster http://www.guardian.co.uk/environ...
ClerktoGovernor: Understanding RAISEonline data: http://t.co/SRSzr04C (New guide for secondary data just published by NGA and RM, more details to come soon.)
RT @UoLAcReg: I'm sure HESES was invented solely as an instrument of torture... Must be a less painful way to dish out diminishing amounts of public funds
RT @AJCann: Unregulated KIS data overload will baffle, not enlighten, students | @scoopit http://t.co/BTBpcXvo
richardbadge: Starts easy, gets hard... RT @genetics_blog UVA "From Data to Knowledge" course, notes + R code http://www.ece.virginia.edu/~mv... #rstats #bioinformatics
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