I don’t know him, have never met him, but I subscribe his blog and find it interesting, so I want to wish Dan Lockton the best of luck with his upcoming PhD. He’s going to be continuing on his theme of Architectures of Control, looking specifically at the environmental impact of products. He’s outlined his [...]
Congratulations to my Dad, who has just had his degree result confirmed as a 1st. Along with my girlfriend Fiona, who has also graduated with a first this year, I’m beginning to feel that my 2:i was a bit crap (dammit, shoulda worked harder). Dad’s degree title is the slightly alarming ‘BA with HONOURS in [...]
So today is the day that many undergraduates will find out the results of their degrees. I graduated last year (with a 2i), but many of my friends are a year behind. This year of course, some students will be getting their results late, due to lecturers industrial action, where they’ve refused to hand in [...]
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 – [...]
Well done to my friend Kat Lay for exposing the Mail on Sunday’s sinister attempts to infiltrate islamic university societies (registration required). Via Ed J.
Yesterday evening I set up a student radio weblog for the Student Radio Association. This is something we’ve been planning to do for a while – as I reckon that it might turn out to be a good way to share experience and knowledge amongst student radio stations, as I describe in the blog is [...]
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 [...]
I’m off in a mo to go to the venue where tonight the Student Radio Association is hosting the 10th annual Student Radio Awards ceremony. The SRA, along with some radio industry professionals who have kindly given us much of their time in support, advice and pulling in favours, have spent months working hard to [...]
One of my extra-curricular roles at the moment is my position as Chair of the Student Radio Association, which I was elected into in April. Amongst other things, the SRA runs the annual Student Radio Awards, which has now been running for 10 years, supported by BBC Radio One. Over the last few months, I’ve [...]
ITV and the BBC have announced plans to launch a free-to-air satellite tv service to rival Sky. What this means, in reality, is that ITV will join the BBC in switching off the Sky encryption and broadcasting its channels ‘in the clear’. So far, this doesn’t really change too much. You can already get BBC [...]