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Beyond the Comfort Zone
Last week started off in unfamiliar ways. I’ve written before about the challenges of doing something for the first time, and this week I had two consecutive days of things that felt stressful and unusual to me. These issues of … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Funding
Tagged Labour, New Scientist Live, Peter Kyle
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Investing in People
We have all got used to the wonders of Zoom (or Teams if you prefer) over the last couple of years. It may have made academic life as we were used to it viable during the pandemic, but it has … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education, Science Funding
Tagged apprenticeships, House of Lords, skills, solar panels
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The Future of Skills and Education?
It is only six weeks since I last wrote about skills on this blog. Not, you might think, a very long time for change to happen. And yet much has. A new monarch (probably the least important for the theme … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Science Funding
Tagged Further Education, investment, Lifelong learning entitlement, science superpower
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Joining the Dots Around Skills
You don’t have to read beyond the first few lines of the summary of last week’s House of Lords’ Science and Technology Select Committee Report to recognize they are sceptical about the Government’s direction of travel when it comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education, Science Funding
Tagged absorptive capacity, diffusion, Felixstowe, green economy, House of Lords
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Marking UKRI’s scorecard
UKRI is still a relatively young organization, trying to find its way in a funding landscape that has been impacted by Brexit, a pandemic and now soaring inflation eating away at the value of every grant or PhD stipend. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Funding
Tagged communications, Grant Review, interdisciplinarity, Nurse Review, Ottoline Leyser
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