Phew, I made it through the Student Radio Spring Conference 2006, where I spent Monday to Wednesday this week running around welcoming speakers, chatting to delegates, and introducing the sessions. I’ll probably write more about the sessions and the organising and thinking behind the conference over the next few days, but first I just wanted [...]
I’m going to be in Paris for the next few days, taking a quick relaxing break. Then next week it’s the student radio conference at Southampton, which I’ve been helping to organise. The schedule has now (mostly) been announced, and I’m really looking forward to it. Hopefully the lineup of speakers and sessions will be [...]
I love listening to BBC 6Music – it’s by far the best music-playing national digital radio station (and that includes crappy XFM and Virgin) – but I’m constantly astonished at how similar to student radio the output often sounds. That’s to say that it features a lot of the good points of student radio – [...]
My girlfriend Fiona handed in her final year dissertation (BA History) today. Which means she’s only got two exams in a couple of months to go, and then we’re a student-free household. And won’t that be weird? At the moments I’m going out with a student, lots of my friends are still students, and so [...]
On Monday, I announced on behalf of the Student Radio Association that after considering bids from various universities, we had decided to go with Southampton to be our hosts for this year’s student radio spring conference. It was a tough decision – we did it over a lunch meeting in Birminham at the weekend after [...]
Jon Dale summarises a Times Higher survey of academics’ frustrations with students as follows: Poor written English, especially punctuation. Propensity to complain and to take complaints to extreme levels. Plagiarism, expecially online. Preoccupation with marks. Failure to understand the difference between learning and being taught. Students who fail through laziness, then try every available trick [...]