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Water and Energy
I’ve refrained from blogging about the fraught history of my attempts to have a new gas boiler installed in my house. Today, however, at last I have finally succeed in getting a state-of-the-art...
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Among the Crachach
Catching up on the news by looking through my copy of last week’s Times Higher, I came across an account of a speech made by Welsh Assembly Minister Leighton Andrews about the Future of Higher...
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Higher Education Spending in Wales
Just a quick post to pass on the news that the Welsh Assembly has now published its draft budget for 2011/12 (and following years). You can find the documents related to this here, the most useful one...
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Uncertain Universities…
Interesting snippets of Higher Education news today from the BBC website. It seems that the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HECFW) has voiced concerns about the sustainability of no less...
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Why should Wales subsidise English universities?
As the argument about increased tuition fees for English universities intensifies in the run-up to Thursday’s debate in the House of Commons, the Welsh Assembly Government last week announced that...
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Local News
I’m looking forward to tonight’s Annual Chaos Society Physics Ball, in advance of which I’ll have to go home to get my glad rags sorted out. This posh night out should provide some welcome fun at the...
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The Dissolution of the Assembly
Yesterday’s mail included a polling card for the forthcoming elections to the Welsh Assembly. Coincidentally, I found out this morning that the Welsh Assembly will be dissolved on 31st March, to be...
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University Admissions in Uncharted Territory
It turns out I have a few minutes spare before going to our staff Away (half) Day this afternoon, so I thought I’d pass on another interesting bit of news that came out this week. The Universities and...
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Admissions Latest
Only time for a short post today, so I thought I’d just pass on a link to the latest Higher Education application statistics, as reported by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)....
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UCAS Update: Worrying for Wales?
Just time for a quick post today, to comment on the latest batch of application figures released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). A late rush of applications has changed the...
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