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Andrew McGettigan

@amcgettigan.bsky.social

Author The Great University Gamble. University funding & financing. But also chess, shogi and tai chi. andrewjmcgettigan AT gmail

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shotinthedusk@shotinthedusk.bsky.social · 2w ago

#AngineDePoitrine 以前は寝袋を使っていて話題になった Khn のギターケース。 新ギターのハードケースは Montreal の Boblen 製、“目立たないように”という要望で特徴のないデザインに。 ネックは取り外して持ち運び、飛行機では専用の座席を確保しているとのこと。 www.coastmusiconline.com/boblen www.guitarworld.com/gear/electri...

“We told their manager we were open to making them a guitar. Two weeks later they were touring our factory”: The making of Angine de Poitrine’s new Godin double-neck – and why it’s not a signature mod...

The Canadian guitar firm stopped all other production for 38 days to embark on its most ambitious project yet: a microtonal double-neck for the viral polka-dot duo

guitarworld.com

Hazel@hackneyhaz.bsky.social · 11h ago

Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d ago

The last two or three times I've been to business meetings in Germany I have told my clients "be careful, because whatever has gone wrong with Britain it started with the trains"

David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d ago

My initial view of German trains is they aren't just bad, but utterly catastrophic, sweeping cancellations far in excess of any reasonable system, and everyone just shrugging that this is normal. As a symbol of a fading economic giant it is perfect.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

History Today@historytoday.com · 2d ago

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. ✍️ Brodie Waddell reviews the recent #history book www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

‘The Cheese and the Worms’ by Carlo Ginzburg review

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.

historytoday.com

Andrew McGettigan@amcgettigan.bsky.social · 6d ago

OfS has publicised its method for assessing financial risk. www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications... It's a bit vague and differs from what the former head told the Education Committee they used in November

Financial viability and sustainability risk assessment framework - Office for Students

This guidance explains how we assess financial risk in practice, highlights the characteristics and indicators that inform financial risk judgements for individual providers, explains how we apply reg...

officeforstudents.org.uk

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 6d ago

log in to facebook to find wall-to-wall ads for university clearing places, including many from ThePresitigiousRussellGroupOfUniversitiesTM. August is going to be a fight to the death.

Dundee UCU@ducuuo.bsky.social · last wk.

“We have for six weeks now requested full financial data, we have still not received this. “Data on students numbers and projections has not been supplied. “Equality impact assessments are incomplete and with no mitigations. Stress risk assessments inadequate. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University accused of keeping staff in dark over financial data behind job cuts

The institution disagrees with the claims made by a leading Dundee University trade union.

thecourier.co.uk

Chris Dillow@chrisdillow.bsky.social · 3w ago

Plans to drill for more North Sea oil & gas are worrying not because they'll burn the planet - the amount is too small for that - but because they're a symptom that Burnham is kowtowing to the wrong people.

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 3w ago

The closure of the University of Essex Southend campus will devastate a community. As Pam Cox, MP for Colchester, told Parliament, the loss is already being felt by residents, staff and students. The government must step in before more communities lose their universities.

Richard Littler@richardlittler.bsky.social · 3w ago

The tent acts have all got names like: Corti Zone The Lidl Collective Sam Widge Dr Hoop's Tardigrade Thumb Professor Seatbelt Thrushrash XXX Hamster The Walk-in Baths DJ Stump JB & Fairy Liquid Pork Mittens Ton-E & Auditory Sound Noize Generation Hex Trust-a-Trader Dot Com Apoca Lips

David Timoney@fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 3w ago

One of the key factor's in the UK's poor productivity performance since the 80s (masked by financial services' outsize contribution up to 2008) is the poor calibre of British management. A manifestation of that is fashionable outsourcing whose corollary is contempt for techies.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure

Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state

democracyforsale.substack.com

Richard Littler@richardlittler.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can affirm. Although, in my case, it wasn't a lone pillar but an intact, abandoned, brutalist Third Reich amphitheatre built in folkloric Odenwald, on the site of a former Celtic hill fort, and place of Wodan worship, later turned into a Roman temple to Mercury.

Panoramic shot of Thingstätte
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.

A lone brutalist pillar, possibly the lone surviving remnant of a medieval car park, situated in Dartmoor woodland. The scene is a little reminiscent of the cover of the album Who's Next by The Who (which shows The Who in the aftermath of pissing next to a similar obelisk) but many years on, when the landscape fertilised by The Who has flourished, blissfully unaware that the band are now variously dead or supporters of Right Wing politics. I lived not much more than half an hour's walk away from this pillar during early 2022, when I was finishing my first novel Villager, which, though I'm biased, is a good fucking book, which someone once called "psychedelic Cranford", and the pillar's presence was one of many reminders of the mystery of the British landscape, prompting me to write about Dartmoor not straightforwardly as it is but as a very slightly warped parallel dimension version of itself with new social history, lost music, folklore and ghosts, yet with the same mossy dripping otherworldly feeling I always got during my many many long walks there, during which I always ended up writing novels (many of them now sadly lost forever) in my head, felt like deep history was touchable, and that I was passing through a landscape that had somehow put itself on steroids. It is great when more people discover a love for walking on it and swimming in its rivers but so sad that so many of them, with their selfie sticks and dogs, now contribute to a horrible growing Instagram tourism that I fear might eventually ruin the place, only leading to even more Instagram influencers populating it not because they're truly enchanted by Dartmoor's magic nor what Dartmoor does to them but because they want likes on Instagram from other potential Instagram influencers who will then also visit it, leading to more litter and dog shit and maybe even, eventually, a greater dystopia of people taking selfies of themselves next to this pillar, or chiselling bits of it off as a "souvenir".