Tag: universities

• The limits of university power

  I am writing this from a hotel room in Washington DC, but this afternoon was spent in Baltimore, watching the Ravens play their last home game this season. (The eldest daughter being a big Ravens fan this was a must. It was not a great game, though the atmosphere improved dramatically in the final quarter as […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 29, 2014

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  Baltimore, Baltimore Ravens, Higher education, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, universities, University System of Maryland, Washington DC

• How to destroy our science base

  This is a first (for me) – writing a blog inside a university library – photographic evidence attached. Term does not start for another fortnight – Freshers’ Week is next week – and so there are not that many of us in the library. Of those of us here I’d guess about 50%, perhaps more, […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  September 21, 2012

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  Andrew Green, Britain, economic growth, Gordon Brown, MigrationWatch UK, Student migration, students, universities, University of York

• Why operating system research matters

  By 2020 home computing devices in the UK will be consuming around 7 Terra Watt Hours (TWh) of electricity every year: it was just 1 TWh in 1990. Consumer electronic devices, all of which will be running some software and many of which will have what can loosely be described as an operating system, will […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 3, 2011

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  consumer electronics, energy bills, energy use, Kilowatt hour, Operating system, research, Sustainable energy, universities, virtual memory

• Do universities fail science students?

  There is a very interesting article on the THES website today – “So last century” – which says that universities are failing students because they teach them in such a compartmentalised way. Whether the study is conducted by the CBI in the UK or by commercial for-profit educational providers drumming up business for their remedial […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  April 28, 2011

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  Astrophysics, degrees, division of labour, Employment, science, scientists, specialisation, Stephen Hawking, universities