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Effective (well, post-queue anyways) immediately: Bobby Thompson: don't post in this thread. Rust Martialis: Put Bobby Thompson on ignore. If I see you reply to them again, I'm giving you a month. Everyone else: stop egging each other on to the point where I considered permanently closing this thread.
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Josef bugman posted:I did have a question. I'm a lecturer at a research-intensive uni & I'm happy to say that Lecturers are good now! Most unis now require lecturers to have a PgCert in education/teaching and accreditation with the Higher Education Academy. This work emphasises how to get the best teaching done that meets the goals you want for the module, while accommodating students' needs, delivered in innovative ways. Curriculums and their delivery need to be refreshed regularly so there's much less trotting out the same slides from 1985 - you have to keep up to stay relevant to students. While teaching has historically been looked at by lecturers as the distraction from their real job, I think (and this is based in the depts i know) there has been a change so lecturers are starting to care much more about the teaching aspect of the job. I'd put it down to a range of factors that has seen the culture shift. First, applying for grants suuuuucks now - you basically have to be perfect to be in with a chance of getting money (or be connected to the PM it seems) & awards are at the whims of capricious strangers. But teaching's real, within one's control, and can be instantly gratifying. Second, because money's hard to get from grants, student numbers have skyrocketed and the uni's emphasis, including reasons to hire people, have to change with the demands. Third, HR here have changed how teaching is regarded when it comes to staff appraisals and teaching is (in theory) now held in the same regard as research Last, instability of the job, casualisation, & teaching only/majority time contracts, etc mean that long-term research is hard to plan for in one's life. Being good at teaching is a more direct route to becoming important to the department and staying employed. There are of course still major issues with the delivery of material and inability to meaningfully differentiate according to student ability that come with a class size of several hundred. There's a big push to try and line up modules in courses so that we get a long-slow build of interlinking knowledge and skill across the students' time here. The aim is that students get to develop a passion and then drive much of their own learning in ways that fit them.
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pitch a fitness posted:I'm a lecturer at a research-intensive uni & I'm happy to say that Lecturers are good now! That sort of depends as well. In my field - which is a clinical one - you can get a job as a lecturer without having any additional qualifications (including a PhD). Of course, that goes alongside a course that has a particularly high amount of contact time, so it's not a typical university course.
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a thread lock with an ominous mod post, i was expecting more juicy drama to come out of that than two probations. can someone have a good ol' meltdown please, i'm having a dull saturday night
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Josef bugman posted:I did have a question. Personally, I loved it, and I thrived until my mental health began spiralling for other reasons, which then led to harder times in uni that made brain worse etc. etc.. For me it was a place of genuine learning, discussion, and exploration of ideas, and I came away greatly enriched. However, a couple of caveats and clarifications; I'm naturally suited to the kind of work done in unis. Makes it easier to have a productive time when you're lucky enough to fit into how uni operates and what it expects of you without effort. I did undergrad when it was three grand a year, which is still more than it should be but was WAY more reasonable than what it is today. I had an extremely bad time in school so pretty much anything would have looked better in comparison. I was raised with a romantic and noble view of scholarship and academia that still influences me, basically the idea that it's one of the highest things a person can strive for. Can sadly cross over into classism and the like very easily and I've had to try hard to banish such aspects of it from my thinking. So my perspective is heavily tinted by the very positive experience I had, and I'm not going to say they're perfect places that have no flaws. I'm not well informed enough to speak on that tbh, the furthest I'll go is that I think tertiary education is the least dysfunctional. It has huge problems with things like equality and representation and can very often be used in a colonialist manner as a result, and deep entrenchment of views can occur and hamper progress.
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Sep 29, 2019 00:25
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Who wants to do a UKMT goonmeat in London sometime
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Sep 29, 2019 00:26
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kingturnip posted:That sort of depends as well. Yeah, I'm in a dept with a really cool mix of current and ex-practitioners, research-only staff, teaching-only staff and trad-academics. It's been real interesting to see the different perspectives on how to contribute to the department and somehow it seems to all hang together well enough.
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https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1178075102639988736?s=21 Very lol
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Sep 29, 2019 00:35
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In a quest to learn Bobby Thompson's past, I ended up in an old thread where this was linked and now I've seen it you all have to https://youtu.be/gi5j7jjhm4M (TW: New Labour)
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Sep 29, 2019 00:47
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The Times turning on Boris already is pretty hilarious
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Sep 29, 2019 00:48
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How the gently caress is he getting laid so much?!
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Sep 29, 2019 00:51
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Necrothatcher posted:How the gently caress is he getting laid so much?! 
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Sep 29, 2019 00:53
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For fucks sake these hacks know the full story already and are just stringing us along at this point
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Sep 29, 2019 00:56
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Monday: also she's a Russian spy
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Sep 29, 2019 00:59
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communism bitch posted:Who wants to do a UKMT goonmeat in London sometime I did one and didn't die, so I guess I could risk another
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Sep 29, 2019 00:59
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Necrothatcher posted:How the gently caress is he getting laid so much?!
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Sep 29, 2019 01:04
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Bobby Deluxe posted:cocaine is a hell of a drug Cocaine and stimulants in general make people have impulsive and risky behavior. Not that a lot of people would mind all the extra sex.
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Sep 29, 2019 01:06
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Necrothatcher posted:How the gently caress is he getting laid so much?! Just imagine how he fucks, like a fresh caught fish leaking spunk everywhere and incoherently barking excerpts from the most racist poetry of the 19th century.
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Sep 29, 2019 01:06
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OwlFancier posted:Just imagine how he fucks No, I absolutely will not do that.
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OwlFancier posted:Just imagine how he fucks, like a fresh caught fish leaking spunk everywhere and incoherently barking excerpts from the most racist poetry of the 19th century. Thanks, now I may never cum again.
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Sep 29, 2019 01:07
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communism bitch posted:Who wants to do a UKMT goonmeat in London sometime I organised the last one and it went fine, so maybe depending on timing? (I'd be coming from Cambridge) v0v
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Sep 29, 2019 01:10
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OwlFancier posted:Just imagine how he fucks, like a fresh caught fish leaking spunk everywhere and incoherently barking excerpts from the most racist poetry of the 19th century. One former partner of his described the experience as like "being crushed by a very large wardrobe with a very small key"
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Sep 29, 2019 01:27
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pablo gbscobar posted:One former partner of his described the experience as like "being crushed by a very large wardrobe with a very small key" That was Nicholas Soames.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That was Nicholas Soames. Surprised that Boris having an affair with Nicholas Soames didn't put tories off voting for him tbh.
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Sep 29, 2019 01:33
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Dissing someone you decided to gently caress seems a bit of a self own?
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Sep 29, 2019 01:33
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communism bitch posted:Who wants to do a UKMT goonmeat in London sometime Yeah I'm interested, depending on time and which end of the city it is.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Yeah I'm interested, depending on time and which end of the city it is. Yeah, interested as well.
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communism bitch posted:Who wants to do a UKMT goonmeat in London sometime I will not be attending.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That was Nicholas Soames. Ah fair dos, I heard it second hand and never bothered to research the quote. It's a mental image that will sadly stick with me for some time though
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Sep 29, 2019 01:43
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I will not be attending. queuing up a ban for mod sass.
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communism bitch posted:queuing up a ban for mod sass. OK I'll come.
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I do not want to see goon meat
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communism bitch posted:queuing up a ban for mod sass. More like foring ban sass up a queue mod 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I will not be attending. Well I'm sold. E: NotJustANumber99 posted:OK I'll come. gently caress.
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Sep 29, 2019 02:46
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loving London, loving Glasgow. When you goons going to meat somewhere I can get to. The end of my street (on a good day) Sigh, someday fair goons. Some day. Most likely Glasgow as I'm too pasty for London
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The Tories have just wheeled out the same plan for the BBC that they’ve had for the NHS: starve it of funding and run it into the ground so people begin to hate it so much that they don’t mind if the government just completely ditches it. It’s kind of embarrassing that leftists have fallen for it. Just like the NHS, the BBC should be rescued, not destroyed. Who do you think really benefits in a world with only privately owned television? Also, I’d be up for a goon meet in London.
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Carole teeters on the edge of an intellectual breakthrough https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1178024253305712640 Can anyone recommend me some good books about the climate crisis? I'm relatively uninformed beyond the basics, but I'm a science guy so don't mind something that gets heavy. Tarnop fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Sep 29, 2019 |
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Sep 29, 2019 03:03
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Tarnop posted:Carol teeters on the edge of an intellectual breakthrough The uninhabitable earth.
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Comrade Fakename posted:The Tories have just wheeled out the same plan for the BBC that they’ve had for the NHS: starve it of funding and run it into the ground so people begin to hate it so much that they don’t mind if the government just completely ditches it. It’s kind of embarrassing that leftists have fallen for it. They haven't starved it of funding, they've used it for its inherent purpose, which is to prop up the government. Healthcare cannot fail to benefit people, really, all you can do is deny people it, universal healthcare is inherently left wing. The BBC is not, it is merely a tool for whatever government is in power. The tories can't use the NHS, they can only destroy it, but they absolutely can and do use the BBC.
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