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Calado claims first GP2 win of 2013
August 25th, 2013
James Calado scored his first race win of the 2013 GP2 Series at Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday. The ART driver held off Racing Engineering's Julian Leal by just 0.4 seconds. Calado, who had a fresh set of prime tyres available for this race by dint of starting on the soft on Saturday, streaked into an early lead from pole position
Bird back in title hunt after victory
August 24th, 2013
Sam Bird scored his fourth GP2 victory of the season at Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday and put himself right back into the title fight in the process. The Briton won the feature race for the Russian Time team by seven seconds over Marcus Ericsson. ART's James Calado grabbed the lead off the startline, making a great getaway on his soft-compound slick tyres from third on a slippery circuit
Bird takes dominant Belgium pole
August 23rd, 2013
Sam Bird will start the Spa GP2 feature race from pole position after dominating qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps. The Russian Time driver set his best time on his first set of new soft tyres, and although his rivals took plenty of shots at beating the Briton, nobody achieved it. Fabio Leimer came closest, the Racing Engineering man was three tenths down on Bird after the first run.
Dillmann leads Russian Time front row
July 26th, 2013
Russian Time team-mates Tom Dillman and Sam Bird have locked out the front row for Saturday's GP2 race in Hungary. However, Bird's second fastest time is under investigation following an on-track incident with Caterham's Sergio Canamasas
Bird flies in Hungary practice
July 26th, 2013
Sam Bird set the pace in a scorching hot GP2 free practice session in Hungary. The Russian Time driver ended the 30-minute session over three tenths faster than his closest rival, Caterham's Sergio Canamasas. Tom Dillmann underlined the pace of the Russian Time car by recording the third-best time
Vettel fastest as young driver test ends
July 19th, 2013
Sebastian Vettel topped the final day of the young driver test, setting the fastest time of the three days of running at Silverstone. The triple world champion took over the Red Bull from junior driver Carlos Sainz Jr for the afternoon, packing in 78 laps while evaluating the new Pirelli tyres which will be used from next weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix onwards. Force India driver Adrian Sutil's fastest time of the morning was good enough to end the day second fastest, three-and-a-half tenths slower than Vettel.
Sutil sets early pace on final day
July 19th, 2013
Adrian Sutil put Force India back on top of the timesheets on the final morning of the young driver test at Silverstone. The Silverstone-based squad had topped the first morning with rookie James Calado and Sutil knocked Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne off top spot in the second hour of running today by two tenths of a second
Ricciardo stays on top on second day
July 18th, 2013
Daniel Ricciardo ended the second day of Formula 1 testing at the top of the timesheets, but in his Toro Rosso and not a Red Bull.
Ricciardo tops second morning for STR
July 18th, 2013
Daniel Ricciardo set the fastest time on the second morning of this week's young driver test at Silverstone on Thursday as teams began shifting more focus on to tyre work. The Australian was having a morning in his regular Toro Rosso car, prior to a move across to sister team Red Bull for the afternoon.
Magnussen tops test for McLaren
July 17th, 2013
Kevin Magnussen ensured McLaren topped the first day of Formula 1′s Silverstone young driver test. The Dane had not been a factor at the head of the timesheets until the final 20 minutes, when he bolted on medium tyres and set a 1m33.602s that would prove unmatched for the remainder of the session.
Calado: Force India talk no distraction
July 17th, 2013
James Calado insists he put thoughts of a possible third driver role with Force India in Formula 1 to the back of his mind as he tested for the team at Silverstone on Wednesday. Force India has made it clear that it is evaluating the GP2 frontrunner at the young driver test.
Calado fastest as rookie test begins
July 17th, 2013
James Calado put Force India on the top of the timesheets on the opening morning of this year's Formula 1 young driver test at Silverstone.
Force India to evaluate Calado
July 16th, 2013
Force India will give GP2 racer James Calado a test at Silverstone this week, ahead of possible Formula 1 free practice outings later in the season. The Briton, who has already carried out straightline test duties for the team and currently sits fifth in the GP2 standings, will share the test with Force India's two race drivers Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil
Ericsson finally gets first 2013 win
July 6th, 2013
Marcus Ericsson won his first GP2 Series race of the season, and the third of his career, at the Nurburgring on Saturday afternoon. Despite setting two pole positions this year, DAMS driver Ericsson had scored just one point in a race, but finally it all came good for him in Germany. He won by 7.8 seconds over James Calado of ART.
Richelmi grabs maiden GP2 pole
July 5th, 2013
Stephane Richelmi will start the feature race for the sixth round of the GP2 Series from pole position at the Nurburgring on Saturday. Richelmi grabbed the top spot in Friday's qualifying session from DAMS team-mate Marcus Ericsson by 0.276s on his second run on new tyres to score his first career GP2 pole.
Frijns fastest in Nurburgring practice
July 5th, 2013
Robin Frijns set the fastest time in free practice for round six of the GP2 Series at the Nurburgring. The reigning Formula Renault 3.5 champion lapped the grand prix circuit in 1m39.838s in his Hilmer Motorsport-run car, 0.124 seconds faster than Sam Bird of Russian Time
Lancaster takes maiden GP2 win
June 30th, 2013
Jon Lancaster scored his maiden GP2 Series victory at Silverstone in the sprint race on Sunday to make it two British winners on home soil this weekend.
Leimer gets penalty for Coletti clash
June 30th, 2013
Fabio Leimer has been given a 10-place grid penalty for the second GP2 race at Silverstone as a punishment for taking championship leader Stefano Coletti out on Saturday . Coletti was trying to hang on to fourth position in the closing stages when Leimer made a passing attempt into Brooklands
Bird wins chaotic Silverstone race
June 29th, 2013
Sam Bird won his third GP2 race of the year at Silverstone on Saturday afternoon, beating Stephane Richelmi by 2.4 seconds. A chaotic race had a wild start, as poleman Marcus Ericsson looked to have made a fine getaway to lead Felipe Nasr, while Bird made a relatively poor launch from second
Leimer fastest in wet GP2 practice
June 28th, 2013
Fabio Leimer made a solid start to his campaign to get his GP2 title bid back on track by topping free practice at Silverstone on Friday afternoon.


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Christian Zionism – Scofields Deviated Bible & The War On Islam
This an interesting film about Christian Zionists and their War on Islam. No one should believe that Western leaders are engaged in a so called "War on Terror". Sometimes their true agenda leaks out such as the recent revelations that
U.S. army officers were taught 'America is at war with Islam:' Pentagon probe
The Bible comes is so many versions that it's original message is largely lost. The Scofield Bible is the root cause of Christian Zionism and Scofield was a convicted criminal.
We Muslims are fortunate that Allah s.w.t. promised that the Quran will be protected until the end of time. No single letter of the present day Quran has been changed since it's revelation neither will it be even if every copy was burned since thousands of Muslims have memorised the Quran in it's entirety from scholars in chains of recitors going back to the Prophet Mohammed p.b.u.h.
Chapter (15) sūrat l-ḥij'r (The Rocky Tract) ayat 9
Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.

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Lionel Cliffe obituary
In a small Tanzanian town earlier this year, a man approached my old friend Lionel Cliffe, emeritus professor of politics at Leeds University. "You were my teacher 40 years ago," he said. This man was a graduate of Dar es Salaam University, where Lionel had taught in the heady post-independence years. Such an encounter was not unusual for Lionel, who has died aged 77. He is well remembered by his many students, who include two African presidents and numerous other politicians, activists and academics.
He was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and educated at the city's King Edward VII school and Nottingham University. A conscientious objector, he avoided national service and instead worked for Oxfam in the late 1950s. In 1961 he went to Dar es Salaam to teach at Kivukoni adult education college. He also worked in Uganda and Kenya. Back in Dar es Salaam, he engaged vigorously in the university's curriculum reform and in 1970 became the first director of the interdisciplinary development studies programme. He also wrote prolifically and co-edited the two-volume collection Socialism in Tanzania (1972), which remains a key reference source.
At the end of 1971 he left Tanzania for short spells in the US and Sweden, then settled in Rottingdean, East Sussex, where he lived with his partner Doris, whom he married in 1981. With like-minded colleagues and friends, he started the Review of African Political Economy, setting the agenda for research on Africa for a generation. Missing Africa, he accepted a post at the University of Zambia in 1975, but was falsely accused of fomenting student revolt against the government for its weakness on the matter of Southern African liberation. He was detained in a Lusaka jail and deported.
From 1978 he worked at Leeds University until his retirement in 2001 and gained international recognition for his research. In 2002 the Royal African Society marked his career with the Distinguished Africanist award.
His and Doris's home in his beloved Sheffield was an open house for activists and academics from all over the world. After their separation in 1988 (they divorced in 2006), he moved to a village nearby, enjoying Friday nights with neighbours in the pub, organising trips to Test matches at Headingley and remaining undefeated in the annual 100 metres handicap dash along their lane. There, with his partner, Margaret, he created another open house.
He remained highly active at Leeds, and continued to travel extensively, especially to Eritrea and South Africa. Lionel loved Doris's children and later Margaret's as his own, becoming a much-loved grandfather.
In August he was diagnosed with myeloma. Typically, he told his friends that "having a ball and enjoying company has suddenly become a much greater priority. But the 'face' I want to see must be serious about the world, not me."
Margaret and his stepchildren survive him.
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Wrestling with a teaching career: the classroom vs the ring
Deputy head and wrestling champion Mark Cocker uses his success in the ring and the RE classroom to show students they can achieve anything with the right work ethic
Mark Cocker is deputy head at Sale High School, Greater Manchester. As well teaching RE, he is a British wrestling champion who continues to compete internationally.
Wrestling and RE are a match made in heaven. For some people, to go from wrestling to being an RE teacher seems weird. But actually it was a logical step because I knew from my sporting experience that I liked to work with young people and I knew from my experience studying philosophy at Manchester University that I loved religious studies. It was ideal for me and I've never looked back.
My love of wrestling has always gone side by side with my passion for education. Sport has been a stabilising feature of my life. It's always been there, through school and college. Unlike many young athletes, I have stuck at it and there's never been a point when I stopped being a wrestler to become something different. There was a time at the end of university when they told me to choose between a career in education or sport. That wasn't a choice I was willing to take. People seemed to imply that you couldn't have both. I was certain that if I worked hard, I could compete in sport at an elite level and stay in education.
Although it's been really hard work and taken lots of sacrifice, at the end of it all I can stand in front of my students and tell them it's about how much you want something and how much you believe in it. That's what actually gets you to your goal. The lesson for students is that it is not always about compromise. Sometimes if you have the work ethic, you can have the best of both worlds.
When students hear I am a wrestler, they realise there's a person behind the teacher. It does definitely spark interest in the classroom. They're very curious as to how I manage to balance being a teacher with being an athlete and there are a lot of questions around whether that's actually possible. They're always keen to find out how I manage to fit it all in. I talk to the students about how the things that make you successful in sport also help you in your life and career. Things like dedication, goal-setting, and focussing on achieving targets.
People think that because you're a wrestler you get no problems in the classroom but it's not easy engaging kids, especially in RE. People often stereotype the subject as a tool to preach, but actually it's the opposite. It's essentially a study of what it means to be human. Whether you're religious or not, RE should be accessible to all.
I never see students as numbers or targets, I always see them as individuals. Teaching is about striking up relationships and engaging young people. Take religious education, for instance. The subject challenges students to think about big philosophical questions, about why people choose religion and what it means to be human. But RE can become very fragmented and not very engaging if students don't see why they're doing it. It is about finding some common ground and making sure every student in the room has something they can relate to in the subject, regardless of whether they are a Christian, a Jew, Muslim or atheist.
Good RE teaching in schools is essential today and in the future. I don't see how anyone of any religious or non-religious persuasion could make a good argument for upsetting the place of RE in British education. It's the one lesson in school where we get a chance to explore issues of morality, ethics and social responsibility.
School isn't just about being a factory that turns out numbers, grades and results. We are also sending students out into the world as well-rounded individuals with an understanding of the religions and cultures of the people around them. RE plays a crucial role in enabling young adults to be able to do that.
My favourite place is in the classroom in front of the students. One of the biggest challenges is to get certain students to see the potential that, as a teacher, you see in them. But there's no bigger reward than when that child starts to believe in themselves.
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Six creative ideas for practical maths lessons
From designing bling swimming pools for Beyonce and Jay-Z to spaghetti trigonometry, teachers share their top tips on practical maths activities that will really engage students
We asked six teachers to share their most successful functional maths lessons and here's what they came up with.
Dance routines and symmetries of the square from Danny Brown, head of maths, Greenwich Free SchoolI wanted to teach inverses to my year 8s and thought why not throw in a bit of group theory and have a bit of fun at the same time (it's always fun to teach 12 year olds some degree-level maths). So we decided to create a dance routine based on the symmetries of the square.
Kids made up their own moves for rotations and reflections, such as 'windmill' for 90 degrees clockwise, and its inverse, 'anti-windmill'. Other names for these included 'righty-tighty' and 'lefty-loosey'! The reflections were given names like 'mirror-mirror'.
Armed with a collection of rotations and reflections, pupils got into dance troupes of four and created their own routines that took them from the starting position (known as the identity in proper maths speak), through a rather complex sequence of moves, and finally back to the start. We then analysed the routines and worked out why the sequence of moves took us back to the start using inverses.
As an added bonus, I even got the teacher and deputy head who were observing my lesson to accompany on the xylophone and bongo drums.
Paper plane flight data from Mel Muldowney, a maths teacher at Trinity High School and co-founder of Just MathsWe've done this activity with our new intake (on transition days) for the past two years and it's been superb. The students work in teams and start by making their version of a paper plane. During the lesson they are introduced to more unconventional designs and then go on to build their choice. The teams then compete with each other based on which flies the farthest and they use the information from their flights to try to calculate its speed. It really is a great fun lesson and can be as structured or as freefall as you want it to be. I always win though, as I screw the paper up and throw it as a ball for the finale.
Find full details of this activity in the Guardian Teacher Network resource bank: Paper planes – practical maths lesson.
You may also be interested in the other type of practical maths that I use, topics that will be genuinely useful to them in their lives, but more importantly, things that they can relate to, and unsurprisingly these type of topics usually involve money or mobile phones. I have found the Personal Finance Education Group is invaluable for ideas – some of which I'll be using in tutor time, with my year 13s looking at the practicalities of money management as they go off into the big bad world so as a conversation starter I've put together this Always true, Sometimes true and Never true card that will trigger off all sorts of discussions about credit and money in general.
Spaghetti trigonometry from Adrian Pumphrey, a British mathematics teacher, now teaching at Herron High School in Indianapolis, USAOne of my favourite activities is to use spaghetti to introduce trigonometric graphs. The aim is for students to understand the origin and characteristics of the graphs of sin(x) and cos(x). All students need to do spaghetti trigonometry is: a blank unit circle and trig graph, a glue stick, a protractor, a small pile of spaghetti noodles.
First ask students to label the unit circle axis (-1 and 1's) and the trig graph x-axis (0 degrees to 360 degrees). Now students use a piece of spaghetti to mark the unit distance from the origin at 15 degrees to the x-axis. They can stick it down and label the angle. Now they can take another piece of spaghetti and measure the y-coordinate (sin(x)) of the point on the circle. They can transfer this piece to lie on the trig graph vertically above the 15 degree mark. Repeat at 15 degree intervals all the way around the shape. When they have finished, they can draw a line going over the top of all their spaghetti sticks to show the graph. Finished all the way to 360 degrees? Try the same again but this time measure the x-coordinate (cos(x)) of each point on the unit circle (with a blank trig axis).
This activity is really good for students to make predictions about how they think the graph will continue past 15 degrees, at the start of the lesson. Students always ask me for more lessons like this, so do give it a try. More detailed info on my website.
A swimming pool for Beyonce and Jay-Z from Fiona Stone, maths teacher, Deptford Green SchoolPerimeter can be a tricky concept for students to grasp. I tried putting students in the role of designers for 'Aqua', a high end swimming pool designer. I gave them a letter from Jay-Z and Beyonce asking for the most bling swimming pool possible, paved in gold so Jay-Z could exercise their dog around it while Beyonce swam. Students designed a swimming pool and measured the perimeter for the gold, which they then calculated the cost of (plus their design time, plus a profit margin) and wrote a quote back to the happy couple. You don't really need anything other than paper and a fake letter from Beyonce to the class to do this exercise. I also included a slide of extravagant pools. After this activity I found the silliness of the task made it easier to refer back to the gold path as a hook for perimeter. Can be done with loads of other things; from fencing round a farm to a security guard doing his rounds of a building to the framing of a picture.
Visualised word problems from Valentina Castaldi, year 3 teacher at St John's and St Clement's Primary schoolThis is my first year of teaching after a long career as an accountant, so I'm really into real-world maths. Make maths relate to real life and the pupils' understanding and enthusiasm will be much increased.
So if you want to do word problems and divisions, make it real. We have 29 children in the class, plus myself and our teaching assistant. We want to go to the Science Museum. If each minibus sits six children, how many minibuses will we need to get there? Actually create the minibuses in class by putting six chairs in rows – get children to come and sit in the chairs in groups of six and then they can actually work out how many minibuses will we need. This helps children to visualise the idea of division and also to think of remainders (five minibuses will sit 30 people and we are 31 so we will need six to all fit in). It is also a fun activity, so children really want to take part.
My other tip is don't throw away your egg boxes with 10 holes. They are invaluable to visually reinforce number bonds. So put three blocks inside the empty egg boxes, how many more to get to 10?
Coding calculations from David Benjamin, A-level maths teacher at Folkestone AcademyIt goes without saying that all my students are obsessed by iPhones and other electronic devices. So what about investigating some maths on what happens behind the scenes every time they use them?
In everyday life we represent numbers which are created in base 10 (denary numbers). Students are fascinated to find out that electronic devices, like mobile phones, essentially use a binary system to move data around their internal circuits. The binary system uses only the two digits zero and one ['off' and 'on'].
In computer jargon, one binary digit is called a bit, two digits are called a crumb, four digits are called a nibble and eight digits are called a byte.
So challenge your A-level students:
The denary number 19 in base 2 is 10011 [16 + 2 + 1] – so what are the next two column headings after 16?
If A = 1, B = 2, C = 3 what is the definition of this word? 1 1100 111 1111 10010 1001 10100 1000 1101?
(The answer is ALGORITHM.)
Can your students to represent their name in a similar code?
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World's oldest Buddhist shrine discovered in Nepal
Archaeologists say structure inside Mayadevi temple in Lumbini dates from sixth century BC – around the time of Buddha's birth
Archaeologists in Nepal say they have discovered traces of a wooden structure dating from the sixth century BC which they believe is the world's oldest Buddhist shrine.
Kosh Prasad Acharya, who worked with archaeologists from Durham University, said on Tuesday that the structure had been unearthed inside the sacred Mayadevi temple in Lumbini.
The Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, is generally thought to have been born in about the sixth century BC at the temple site.
The findings were published in the December issue of the journal Antiquity.
Acharya said the traces had been date tested using radiocarbon and luminescence techniques. The archaeological team dug underneath previously known brick structures in the temple, and experts from the University of Stirling examined and collected the samples, he said. The team has been working at the site for the past three years.
Previously, a pillar installed by the Indian emperor Ashok with inscriptions dating to the third century BC was considered to be the oldest Buddhist structure, Acharya said. "This finding further strengthens the chronology of Buddha's life and was is major news for the millions of Buddhists around the world," Acharya said.
"Very little is known about the life of the Buddha, except through textual sources and oral tradition," a Durham University archaeologist, Robin Coningham, said. "Now, for the first time, we have an archaeological sequence at Lumbini that shows a building there as early as the sixth century BC."
Each year, tens of thousands of Buddhists visit Lumbini, 175 miles south-west of Kathmandu. Followers believe Siddhartha, a prince, left his family and kingdom and meditated in the jungles of Nepal and India before achieving enlightenment.
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L'école maternelle refondée
Ils s'appellent Jean, Sofiane, Laura, Shaïma… Ils ont entre 2 et 6 ans. Levés tôt, habillés vite, ils arrivent à l'école entre 7 et 9, à pied, en voiture, en poussette, avec leurs parents, leurs frères, leurs sœurs… Savent-ils que la journée sera faite de rencontres, que chacune d'elles, à sa façon, l'aidera à grandir, à apprendre, à comprendre… en ayant pour grande ambition la réussite de tous ?
Jean, Sofiane, Laura, Shaïma… à l'heure où la refondation de l'école appelle à une construction collective qui mobilise l'ensemble de la communauté éducative et du système éducatif, nous interpellent et appellent à prendre la plume pour penser leur école. Une école dotée d'une redéfinition de ses missions au sein d'un cycle retrouvé ; réaffirmation de sa spécificité, rééquilibrage entre épanouissement de l'enfant et apprentissages, entrée vers de nouvelles logiques de travail. Que sait-on aujourd'hui de l'école maternelle ? Quelle est donc sa spécificité ? Quelles sont les attentes ? Qu'y apprend-on et pour quoi ? Avec qui ?…
Ce dossier des Cahiers pédagogiques souhaite donner la parole à la communauté éducative dans son sens le plus large, apporter des éléments de réponse variés, des témoignages d'expériences concrètes, exprimant des points de vue différents d'acteurs multiples, tous concernés par la première scolarisation.
Tout nous intéresse… avec une préférence, autour de trois axes d'écriture :
- De la spécificité de l'école maternelle
- Des apprentissages et des pratiques
- Des témoignages variés et ouverts à l'ensemble de la communauté éducative (parents, collectivités territoriales, animateurs, associations, éditeurs, etc.)
Nous espérons des contributions qui s'éloignent des généralités, témoignent du quotidien, croisent les regards, portent la réflexion et ouvrent des débats.
Les écrits peuvent prendre des allures variées ; témoignages personnels, écritures partagées, récits de pratiques, interviews, portraits, textes d'observation, productions d'élèves, documents iconographiques, etc. Ils peuvent montrer des réussites, des doutes, des échecs, des travaux en cours.
N'hésitez pas à nous contacter, à nous envoyer un pré-projet d'une dizaine de lignes pour présenter votre proposition, en indiquant l'axe qui vous intéresse et la forme d'écriture que vous envisagez, dès cette fin d'année ou dans les premiers mois de 2014.
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Scottish independence and its impact on higher education – live chat
Join our online discussion Friday 29 November 12-2pm BST to discuss research funding, recruitment and global reputation
Following the unveiling of the white paper, Scotland's future – your guide to an independent Scotland, we want to discuss the impact of the 670-page report dubbed the "independence encyclopaedia" on the future of Scottish higher education.
The paper says there will be "major direct gains" for Scottish universities in an independent Scotland. The policy proposals are as follows:
• Access to higher education will be based on "ability not wealth"
• Scottish students will continue to receive free access to universities in Scotland
• Negotiation with Westminster on fair funding formula with UK research councils, based on population share
• Scotland to develop its own policy on immigration to support students during and after their studies
• Promotion of Scottish higher education through a dedicated overseas diplomatic and trade network
David Willetts, minister for universities and science, has already warned that Scottish academics "would lose billions in funding" if the country became independent. There are also concerns that Scottish universities would face a brain drain of talent after independence as funding declined.
Higher Education Statistics Agency figures show that Scotland's universities are more reliant on UK grants, which provide 26% of their overall research funding compared to 22% grant income for the UK as a whole. Edinburgh University alone won a third (£83m) of its research funding from UK grants – more than from the Scottish Funding Council.
A UK government paper published earlier this month also looked at the impact of independence on scientific research. In 2012-13 Scottish higher education institutions secured £257min grants from the UK research councils, which equates to 13% of UK funding on research (excluding infrastructure), compared to Scotland's 8% share of UK GDP.
"We do great things as a single, integrated system and a single integrated brings with it great strengths," Willetts said. "It's a coherent system which works well for Scotland; we don't want to see it fragmented or split up." But Michael Russell, Scottish education secretary believes Scottish universities are "a case study in the benefits of decisions about Scotland being taken in Scotland – the central point of the independence debate".
Join us in the comments section on Friday 29 November from 12-2pm GMT to discuss the impact of the Scottish referendum on the future of higher education. Here's what we are looking to discuss:
• Research funding and collaboration
• Student recruitment and finance
• Academic movement and immigration
• Global reputation and ranking
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Why students don't laugh off joke candidates
Young people are interested in politics and want to vote, but they're bored stiff by the usual suspects
A "joke" candidate was elected president of the student union at Oxford University last week. Louis Trup, who said students should vote for him because he wears flip-flops, now represents 22,000 students.
In March, the University of St Andrews came within 200 votes of electing a candidate who suggested students vote for him "because he has nothing better to do with his time". What is happening here?
Russell Brand's recent critique of British politics went straight for the jugular. He argued that the political system was broken as evidenced by the refusal of young people to engage with it. The solution: keep breaking it and build a new system. These student elections suggest that he is only half right. The system is broken, not because it fails to meet our needs, but because of the sort of people it attracts.
Our generation desperately wants to engage in politics, but we will only do so when the people hoping to represent us actually reflect our character. David Cameron, Ed Milliband, and their colleagues who greedily eye the top jobs, are all of the same breed. They get a kick out of the intrigue, the machinations, and the power of politics. What they are less interested in is people. When Michael Gove and Tristram Hunt banter about the the new English GCSE syllabus, they manifestly do so without actual children in mind. Russell Brand is the polar opposite of these cold political machines and is exactly the sort of person who would reinvigorate our democracy. The system may be broken, but it is not beyond repair.
It is easy to dismiss votes for joke candidates as protest votes. But unlike the recent surge in support for UKIP, nobody here is protesting against a particular policy. They are fed up with a personality type. Therefore this is not something that will go away with a consultation.
Policies are important, but they are useless if nobody can be bothered to listen to the person presenting them. Boris Johnson is such a powerful weapon in the Conservatives' arsenal because he is able to succeed where Cameron fails: he entices us to listen by virtue of having a personality. Even when we don't like what he has to say, we still engage with him. The jokes that joke candidates deploy work because they are suggest a sense of humour, a desire to make people laugh, a personality.
Democracies need to be representative of the population they seek to govern. In Britain this means having more women and ethnic minorities in parliament. But that is not enough. More of a certain gender or race will not engage young voters. Candidates must also be representative of our character and personality. For this new generation, character is king.
The major political parties need to recognise that to engage with young voters and attract our votes, we need to see more Brands and Borises.
Parties should take note of what is happening on campuses all over the country. There are lessons to be learned about how future elections will be lost or won. Our generation is interested in politics. We want to vote. Just give us someone to vote for.
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EU referendum: time for UK university leaders to speak out?
Universities have as much to lose as major companies from a 'no' vote in any forthcoming EU referendum, says Paul White
The chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry has done it. Firms involved in inward investment in the UK (such as Nissan) have done it. But, as yet, British university leaders have not raised their voices in the Europe debate.
There are outstanding reasons why Britain's universities should do so. Knowledge, understanding and insight know no boundaries. Advances in research and education depend on talent, and science is expensive. The UK's participation in various EU programmes create access to that talent in terms of researcher and teacher mobility, and through encouraging some of the brightest students in the world to study and to take up postdoctoral positions in Britain.
The benefits of the international pooling of resources and expertise have been demonstrated in the work of CERN and in the development of Graphene for which British-based scientists won the Nobel prize – both significant beneficiaries of EU funding. And such funding has compensated for the 'flat cash' settlements from the UK government.
EU membership discussions often take a balance sheet approach. In research funding, the UK is massively a net receiver. Data to June 2013 shows that the UK hosts the highest proportion of European Research Council grants of all EU member states: 23% against Germany's 14%. While the UK contributes around 11.5% to the overall EU budget, it has won 14.5% of the research funding under the Framework 7 programme.
Between 2007 and 2011, the UK received €3.6bn for research and innovation from this source. These are not benefits that are confined to the university sector. Valuations carried out as part of the development of the next round of EU research support show that every €1 of funding from Framework 7 (the latest funding programme for research and technological development) produces an industry added-value of €13. The annual contribution of the programme to industrial output in the UK exceeds €3bn.
These figures include indirect effects, many of which depend on industrial partners. Would such partners be prepared to work on the same scale with UK universities if they were not able to draw benefit from participation in EU research programmes? Boeing at Sheffield, Janssen Pharmaceutica at Oxford, the Tata group at Warwick: as in manufacturing, for such companies future research partnership with universities elsewhere within the EU may seem a more sustainable proposition.
The EU is the UK's principal trading partner. The development of skills to operate in such a market is further dimension of universities' benefits from membership of the Union. More than 14,500 UK students participated in 2012/13 in the Erasmus programme to study or work in another country as an integrated part of their degree, a figure that has doubled in six years. Cultural agility is crucial to the UK's ability to compete in the global economy. Were the UK to leave the EU this interchange of students, and young researchers through schemes such as the Marie Curie fellowships, could be threatened. Withdrawal from the Erasmus programme would damage yet further the already problematic recruitment of students into modern European languages.
Graduates from UK universities who hold an EU passport can seek employment anywhere within the EU. UK-domiciled students do so less than students graduating in a number of other EU countries, but for many the existence of the EU-wide labour market presents important opportunities for their career development. Departure from the EU could restrict UK graduates to the UK labour market.
Surely if the UK were to leave the EU it could negotiate the 'associate' status that is currently enjoyed by Switzerland or Norway? Switzerland has been a great success story in European research funding. But it is not at the Council of Ministers where policies and budgets are hammered out.
In the creation of Horizon 2020, the EU's future research programme, the view that the prime criterion for funding should be research excellence won through. The Commissioner, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, credits this in part to the support of David Cameron supported by evidence provided by British universities. The alternative, favoured by some member states, was to share funding according to national contributions. An EU without the UK at its heart could take very different paths on various educational issues.
With the progressive evolution over recent years of the reach of EU policies and institutions, the core activities of British universities – research and education – have become intimately linked to opportunities elsewhere in Europe. The UK higher education system is recognised as the second strongest in the world, after that of the US. But part of that strength is derived from collaborative international research fostered by the EU, and by the stimulus of the free movement of talented staff and students.
UK universities have as much to lose as major companies if a 'no' vote in a forthcoming referendum consigned them to a semi-engaged offshore status. It is time for the UK university sector to stand up and enter the debate.
Professor Paul White is pro vice-chancellor for learning and teaching at the University of Sheffield – follow it on Twitter @sheffielduni
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Piers Morgan: a psychiatric assessment
Piers Morgan's recent Twitter comments suggest he thinks people with mental health issues shouldn't be allowed to perform meaningful jobs. However, given his history, does this mean he himself shouldn't be employed?
Dean BurnettBattle for Richard III reburial site on hold as high court case is adjourned
Judicial review hearing delay as Leicester council becomes party to case involving Plantagenet Alliance on resting place for bones
Richard III's remains may be in search of a home for a while longer after a high court case was adjourned amid anger and disappointment in London.
Leicester city council's claim that it has a key role in deciding where the last Plantagenet king of England should be interred or buried could mean that the hopes of Leicester University and the city's cathedral for placing his skeleton in a new tomb by next August will be dashed.
The council was an interested party in the proceedings, and on Tuesday lawyers for the local authority said it was prepared to launch its own consultation.
Lawyers for the Plantagenet Alliance, members of which claim to be descendants of the king, successfully argued that the authority should be a third defendant in the case they are conducting against the Ministry of Justice and the city's university over the way they have handled the legal process that facilitated the dig for Richard's body and then the decision on its reburial.
No new hearing will be possible before the new year. The alliance argues that the ministry, which granted an exhumation licence, and Leicester University, did not consult widely on the issue of where the king should be laid to rest; York and other places could be options, they say.
The failure to take into account relatives' wishes or the king's "own preferences" had breached their human rights, the alliance claimed.
The university and cathedral authorities said after the judicial review hearing had broken up that they were disappointed at the delays.
The authorities, which said they had followed due legal process, would not be drawn on whether they would still consider leaving the decision on Richard's remains to an independent panel of experts .
The university may yet face a decision on whether it will have to apply for an extension of the exhumation licence. Any consideration of changes to the cathedral to accommodate the body of the king are already on hold because of the case.
Matthew Howarth, of the Yorkshire law firm Gordons, which is representing the alliance, said the council's actions meant there would inevitably be delays. "We are not going to finish by August next year."
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How important are languages for diplomacy and national security? – Live chat
Join us on November 28 between 10AM-12PM GMT for an online discussion about the importance of languages in diplomacy
Is Britain's language skill deficit threatening diplomacy and security? A report from the British Academy, published this week found that the government's language capacity is in need of immediate attention. The Lost for Words report urged government to develop a strategy to recognise the importance of languages within its own departments, warning that Britain's diplomatic influence is at risk if more is not done to tackle the language skills deficit.
The foreign secretary, William Hague, has taken a personal interest in addressing the languages problem within the government. Hague has previously warned that Britain's global business standing, and its position in the diplomatic world, is at grave risk owing to a lack of language skills.
At the reopening of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's language centre in September, Hague said: "The ability to speak, read, listen and write in a foreign language is one of the fundamental skills of our diplomats. Without it they cannot get under the skin of a country and really understand its people."
To mark the launch of the British Academy's Lost for Words report, and to round off November's languages festival, we're holding a live chat about the importance of languages for diplomacy and national security on Thursday 28 November between 10AM-12PM.
You can take part in the conversation by posting any questions you have in the comments below. You can also follow the debate live on Twitter using the hashtag #languagesdebate.
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Arts head: Purni Morell, artistic director, Unicorn theatre
The theatre director on childhood creativity, paying attention to parents and why audiences should know more than performers
Hi Purni, could you tell me a bit more about Unicorn Theatre and how its history plays into its mission today?
The Unicorn was founded in 1947 as a touring theatre that operated out the back of a van and took plays around the country for children. Its core founding philosophy was that plays for children should be treated as, made the same way and judged the same way as plays for adults.
Today, the Unicorn serves an audience aged zero to 21-years-old. At the moment, the majority of our audience comes from London and we're about half school audiences, half family audiences. We programme around 30 shows a year, of which about half to two-thirds are our own productions.
It's very important to me that we're seen as a theatre first and foremost, and it's a coincidence that our audience happens to be children – rather than considering that what we're doing is educational, or building the audience of the future, or providing extended day care.
To my mind, the artists that we employ here are the same artists you would see on any stage in London or in the UK. I'm very passionate about making sure that what we're not is about educating children into enjoying plays into their future adult life; I think it's about the experience they have for that particular performance, on that particular day.
You mention being seen as a theatre first and foremost – do you get hung up on definitions?
I think it's really important to fight definitions if you possibly can. It's difficult to fight them because they're useful for having shorthand conversations, but shorthand conversations are always general. So if you're trying to investigate what it is we're doing, you have to move away from them.
Because you've also programmed work for adults …
The plays that we do I hope speak to children on their own terms about the life they're living, but in fact the greatest influence on our audience's life is that of their parents. I thought it would be interesting from time to time to do a show that was for adults, just to complete the picture.
Maybe once a year we'll do a show for grown-ups but it tends to be on the theme of children or childhood, or the way in which we, as adults, relate to children, our assumptions about them and so on. I'm not going to be doing Ibsen, for example.
How do you approach those two kinds of shows and audiences?
When I started, I found there hadn't been much of a crossover between artists working for adults in theatre and artists working for children. I think there had been an assumption that making theatre for children was a specialism, or required special skills, whereas I take the view that doing a play requires the special skill of being able to speak to your audience and understand who your audience is.
That's true of whether you're in a city, or in the country, or whether you're dealing with adults or children. It doesn't really matter how you cut that particular cake; each time you make a play you've got to revisit that for the first time.
How have recent changes to funding and cultural education impacted on what you do?
There are undoubtedly a lot of changes taking place in funding. But for us – and we're unusual in this – the greater effect has come from the changes to cultural education, and the changes that have been made to the curriculum.
The pressure on teachers has grown noticeably and palpably, even in the two years I've been in this job. The biggest question that we talk about in our staff meetings is what we, as a theatre, can be doing, should be doing, want to do, to make sure that a child's experience of childhood isn't just passing exams or meeting targets.
When you're six, you're examined at a number of things. The criteria for success, particularly in education, are becoming narrower and narrower. As the foremost theatre for young people in this country, we have to do something about that. I see teachers thinking "I really want to take this class out, but if I do then they won't be able to study this and they won't be ready for that exam, and then we'll be marked down."
What role does the theatre have to play in that?
Cultural education is, for some reason, something some people are quite suspicious of, or something they don't quite trust. Yet we all benefited from it ourselves, and we all participate in it all the time. I feel like that's the biggest challenge, but that's not a challenge for Unicorn. The question for us is: what is our place within this thing that is a problem for society?
Are we trying to create young people who are going to be able to get jobs, or are we trying to develop young people who are confident in who they are, and can think creatively and can shape the world in their own image in the future? I think, as a theatre, we have a part to play in that.
You've spoken about Europe treating children's theatredifferently than the UK – what are the differences?
I have a friend who says there are two problems in this world, and only two: one is how you live with other people; the other is how you live with yourself. What I like about theatre is that it's the meeting point of those two problems.
Theatre is both the private and public. When you're at the theatre, you are moved by what you experience and see in an intensely private way, but you do it with a lot of other people who are doing it in their own intensely private ways. You also receive it collectively. Theatre is the only artform where that particular problem – where the individual and society intersect – can properly be explored. It's not that you sit there and think about it, because it actually happens in that environment. It's visceral.
What my experience in the rest of Europe told me was that theatre was an artform of the emotions, rather than of the intellect, and that you can do exactly the same for children as you do in theatre for adults. If you go and watch a production of Macbeth, much of the drama comes from you knowing that what Macbeth is doing, and the course he's embarked on, is a bad plan. The drama comes from the fact that you, as the audience, know more than the character does.
Sometimes, traditionally in English children's theatre, there has been the habit to do the opposite, to assume that the people on stage have got something to tell the audience; that the performers and characters know more than the children in the audience. I think that's the death of drama.
One of the things I learned in Europe was to make sure that what you're doing for children is that same thing you're doing for adults, rather than doing something different because they happen to be younger.
Purni Morell is artistic director of Unicorn Theatre – follow it on Twitter @Unicorn_Theatre
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Michelle Obama 'leans in', just not in the direction privileged feminists want | Enuma Okoro
Politico bashed the first lady recently, but her fights for children and low-income communities are the kind of activism we need
I am not even sure where to start to respond to Michelle Cottle's recent Politico article in which she calls first lady Michelle Obama a "feminist's nightmare". Cottle suggests that Obama is underplaying her position of power and letting "feminists" down. Do I begin with the implicit narrow definition of feminism, touted by the writer and those she quotes? Or do I begin with the equally simplistic understanding of activism and political action inherent in the criticisms.
What these so called feminists fail to see is that Michelle Obama is a social and political activist working passionately in arenas commonly ignored by white politicians and white feminists: the needs of the children and youth raised in low-income communities, including equal access and availability to health and nutritional education.
Focusing on obesity and exercise for young people is not only a needed form of social activism to help predominately minority youth break cyclic issues of health, education and low self-esteem, but it also shows foresight and wisdom towards creating and sustaining healthier communities overall. These same young people who "feminists" criticize the first lady for spending so much time and energy on will grow up to be the next generation of adults making an impact in the ongoing development of this country. Michelle Obama is using her role as a woman of power in the highest office in the country to educate, inform, raise and expand the imagination of children and youth. How is that not social activism and political strategy of the most essential order?
Beyond disagreeing with Cottle about the significance of the first lady's work, I also do not adhere to Linda Hirshman's and the article's other quoted feminists' needlepoint perspectives of what feminism is or what feminists can or cannot do. Why does Michelle Obama's choosing (especially as an African American woman) to invest in the future of children – hers and others' – have to equate to a blow to feminist projects?
It is both shameful and contradictory to the very nature of feminism itself that Cottle's article reads like the scene from a schoolyard bullying attempt, trying to get the alarmingly confident and focused new kid to conform to the arbitrary rules that determine who is "in" and who is "out". A true feminist, like any individual who asserts justice and equality for all without discrimination, not only recognizes her innate rights to equal access and treatment, but also seeks to use those rights to ensure a more just future for all who are marginalized
Michelle Obama, is using her power and place to reach some of the nations most vulnerable. In her Democratic National Convention speech (to which Cottle refers negatively), Michelle Obama says of her husband:
And he reminds me that we are playing a long game here … and that change is hard, and change is slow, and it never happens all at once.
The first lady's passion for childhood and youth health and education seems to be representative of that wise counsel.
Do these "feminist" critics have any idea how important the first lady's work is for underprivileged communities, most of whom are African American? Since becoming first lady, Michelle Obama has pursued a diverse range of activities and initiatives to bring about the vital work of getting children and youth to believe in and work towards a better future for themselves, and effectively, for their communities. Everything from her anti-childhood obesity initiative to her recent focus on ensuring more low income youth go to college is proof that Michelle Obama is leaning in and leveraging her power.
But apparently the first lady's just not leaning enough towards the agenda of upper middle class, predominately white, so-called "feminists". Despite being a strong, independent, accomplished and ambitious woman in power, Michelle Obama is leaning in for the benefit of those who her critics would likely just ignore.
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Using a pen helps us discover thought – but the writing's on the wall | Andrew Brown
Keyboards are fine for communicating with machines, but handwriting captures the disconnected and chaotic patterns of real thought
Swedish schools are considering whether to abandon the teaching of handwriting. They will continue to teach block capitals, but the subtleties of cursive writing will no longer be transmitted outside the elite. This seems to me to lose one of the most wonderful cognitive tools ever invented. Handwriting helps you think. The physicality of it makes the associated mental processes clearer and more memorable.
This kind of argument is quite wasted on educational bureaucrats, for whom the question is whether children can learn to type faster and more clearly than they can write by hand. After all, there's no call for handwriting in most jobs today, any more than there is any requirement for independent thought.
I don't think there is any doubt that a trained typist can type faster and more legibly than it is possible to write in longhand. Nor have I ever found any kind of handwriting system that lets me communicate quickly and accurately with a computer. The nearest thing would be the phone keyboards that let you slide a finger around them instead of striking individual letters. In any case, they lack all distinctiveness. That's an asset if you are feeding into machines. But the point of handwriting is not to communicate with machines. In some sense it's not even a means of communication with other people. It is valuable because it distances us from machines, and makes our output both more precise and less predictable.
There is so much more encoded in a handwritten page than in something typewritten. The archives of metadata that Google or the NSA can collect around our words cannot match the variety and depth of associations that my handwriting reveals to me. It may not be apparent to anyone else, but the purpose of private thought is not immediately to be shared.
Handwriting is the expression of all those aspects of personality that cannot be shared or even glimpsed on Facebook. Handwriting is what I turn to when I need to discover thought – the pen, like a divining rod, moves in my hand towards something I can only feel and not yet see.
This is partly because it is so much more complex an action than typing. That looks like a drawback, but we are physical, embodied creatures, and need to use muscles when we think properly. Just as walking is much better than sitting still if you want to work out a difficult problem, so does the varied co-ordination required to write cursively drive thought more efficiently than simply moving fingers up and down on to the keys.
It also captures the disconnected and chaotic ways in which real thought emerges. A handwritten page can have loops, insertions, deletions and marginalia in ways that computer software really finds hard to emulate. It works against the false simplistic certainties of PowerPoint and for that reason alone is a skill that all democracies should teach.
My own handwriting is little used now. I still keep a pen and pad of paper on the writing desk for when I get stuck and have to feel my way through a difficult passage. And only a hand-scrawled page or three of A4 can capture the glorious and almost dreaming exuberance of thought that sometimes anticipates the day's first cup of coffee. But I am the only person who ever reads or tries to read what I write that way. Handwriting as a mode of communication with other people is almost dead.
My father had a firm, clear hand. He belonged to a generation where all important decisions were conveyed in handwriting, and typing was a specialised manual skill, so he needed to be read by other people. I once found his notes on a Foreign Office document in the Public Records Office in Kew, and the firm neat downstrokes had hardly altered at all from those of the letters he wrote to me 40 years later. I see them in my own hand now: the marks of a Belfast protestant temperament, although the loops and swinging trails are all my own.
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Les présidents de fac prendront des cours de gestion à l'ENA - Kira Mitrofanoff, Challenges, 26 novembre 2013
La ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur invite ceux dont les universités perdent de l'argent à suivre une formation qui doit leur permettre de sortir du rouge.
Geneviève Fioraso veut renvoyer les présidents d'université et leurs administrateurs sur les bancs de l'école. En tout cas ceux qui le souhaitent. La ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur est en effet en train de leur concocter une formation sur mesure pour apprendre à préparer et exécuter … un budget. Qu'on se rassure, ils n'iront pas apprendre les méthodes des cost-killers que l'on enseigne à HEC ou l'ESSEC mais ils seront formés à l'ENA, qui est chargée de concevoir le programme.
Il faut dire que depuis qu'elles sont devenues autonomes, dans le cadre de la loi LRU de 2007, les comptes financiers d'une vingtaine d'entre elles ont viré rouge, parfois sévèrement (voir tableau) [1]. Dépourvu d'une comptabilité analytique, les équipes administratives sont souvent incapables d'avoir une gestion prévisionnelle des effectifs, encore moins de faire des projections à moyen terme de la masse salariale. Une cécité qui a conduit à des dérives dommageables. Beaucoup d'entre elles ont profité de cette transition pour embaucher à tour de bras, augmenter l'enveloppe des primes et ouvrir de nouvelles licences et masters.
L'exemple à ne pas suivre à Versailles Saint-Quentin
Le cas de l'université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (UVSQ) est emblématique. Récemment, cet établissement qui dispose d'un budget de fonctionnement de 144 millions d'euros pour 15 000 étudiants s'est déclaré en cessation de paiement. Les salaires du mois de décembre ne pourront pas être payés et le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur va lui faire une avance remboursable de plusieurs millions d'euros.
"Il n'est pas question de favoriser les mauvais élèves en leur donnant plus, explique Geneviève Fioraso qui parle pour l'UVSQ d'une politique qui n'était pas soutenable, en termes de dépenses avec des prévisions budgétaires irréalistes, voire insincères."
Le rapport provisoire de la Cour des comptes, rendu remis début nombre, que Challenges a pu lire, pointe les dérives. Les sages ont découvert des masters et licences qui attirent entre 10 et 15 étudiants, dont l'une, "Musiques anciennes et monde contemporain", en compte entre 4 et 6 ; l'embauche de 156 salariés, entre 2009 et 2012, sans projection salariale ; des primes en hausse d'un million d'euros sur la même période ; une explosion des heures supplémentaires de 42 % en six ans, pour atteindre 36.400 heures en 2012, soit l'équivalent de 190 charges d'enseignement à temps plein ; la création par dizaines de nouveaux diplômes universitaires en six ans dont un "doctorat professionnel", suivi par … 15 cadres dirigeants chinois mais aucun étudiant. Enfin, deux partenariats public-privé (PPP), mal négociés, dont l'un conduit à un dépassement de 40% par rapport aux estimations initiales !
"Il faudra résister aux demandes de promotions, de primes"
D'ores et déjà, la mission d'assistance mise en place par le ministère a permis de recouvrer 2 millions d'euros de recettes égarées ou surévaluées sur un total de 40 millions manquants. Il s'agit de contrats de recherche non signés ou subventions des collectivités jamais versées… Pour retrouver l'équilibre d'ici trois ans, Jean-Luc Vayssière, le président de l'UVSQ, nommé l'an dernier, prévoit de réduire les dépenses de personnels et les crédits de fonctionnement.
Il va lui falloir aussi renégocier les contrats PPP signés avec Bouygues et Suez, et mutualiser les parcours alors que 24 licences et masters ont été créés sur trois ans. "Les universités vont devoir présenter des comptes responsables avec des formations de qualité, dit la ministre. Il faudra résister aux demandes de promotions, de primes, de création de masters, et cela demande du courage." Reste que la France est l'un des pays développés qui dépense le moins pour l'enseignement supérieur : presque deux fois moins que les Etats-Unis ou la Corée en pourcentage du PIB. Cela aussi, c'est un mauvais calcul.
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I've been re-reading Tom Wolfe for an upcoming NRO piece I've just finished. In my old copy of his out-of-print anthology The Purple Decades, I found this golden passage describing a fictional "Modern Churchman." It was written in the 1970s, but it sure adds context to current events, which didn't emerge from nowhere. Wolfe writes:
He was a socially acceptable but obscure minister to the Tassel Loafer & Tennis Lesson Set until the day in 1975 when he announced that he was a pederast. He not only announced it, he enunciated his theory that the sexual life of the child was an essential part of, not an obstacle to, the spiritual life of the child, and that anyone who doubted that God had created a link of sexual attraction between generations was an upland Tennessee aborigine.
Half of his congregation walked out, but the other half was stimulated by the television coverage. The diocesan governors had long been troubled by declining church membership and felt that here, at last, was a Modern Churchman who could Reach the Urban Young People.
Emboldened by a measure of fame and official support, he enunciated the theory that terrorists were God's Holy Beasts, arguing that Jesus had entered the temple with a flog or cat-o'-nine tails, according to which Renaissance painting one looke at, to drive the moneychangers out and that the Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros had once led a maching-gun raid on the home of Leon Trotsky. He was a great supporter of the arts, and in his home, an old carriage house redone in nail patterns by Ronaldo Clutter, the interior designer, the painting frame had replaced the cross as a religious symbol.
When he held a Holy Roller Disco Night in the sanctuary and urged the recitation of the prayer book 'in tongues,' he was featured in the Religious sections of both Time and Newsweek, and his elevation to bishop was said to be imminent.


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Casa Del Mar 2 Bedroom Waterfront Getaway - 5 Star Gated Community
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- Minimum stay:2 nights
- Internet:Yes
- Pets considered:Yes
- Wheel chair accessible:No
Cudjoe Key mobile home description
This Oceanside Waterfront lowrise home located in Venture Out's private gated community offering ocean views from your private back yard and lanai, living room and kitchen, this rental comes with everything you need to live, kick back and relax in the Florida Keys.
Located on Kemp Channel, one of the most accessible boating channels to both the beautiful back country as well as a quick ten-minute run to the open Atlantic and it's Coral Reefs. The private dock will hold up to a 36' overall length boat and has secure storage for all the gear, and a separate freezer for all your bait and fish. Bring your laptop - High Speed internet connection!!!
On the gulf side, Cudjoe Key offers the Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge, and just minutes from Big Pine's Key Deer. When it comes time to relax, take your choice: in the comfy living room with a flat screen television, having your favorite cocktail on your private deck, or just telling old fishing and boating stories sitting by the pool.
This community also features a large fresh water pool, children's pool and jacuzzi facing the ocean. This is the place to take all of your daily worries away and where lifetime memories are made!
Recently, we have added a golf cart rental that is available for our guests at an additional cost. The golf cart will be an immediate favorite! This golf cart is an extreme convenience to our guests during their stay in Venture Out Resort. It provides easy, low maintenance travel, as a couple, or with the kids to the ship store or pool areas. Just another detail not to worry about!
Property Type
- 800 sq. ft.
- Mobile Home
Accommodation Type
- Vacation Rental
- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
- Children Welcome
- Non Smoking Only
Bedrooms: 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6, Beds for 4-6
Bathrooms: 1 Bathroom
Kitchen & Dining
- Microwave
- Oven
- Toaster
- Kitchen
- Dining
- Dishes & Utensils
- Coffee Maker
- Pantry Items
- Linens Provided
- Heating
- Parking
- Towels Provided
- Washing Machine
- Iron & Board
- Air Conditioning
- Clothes Dryer
Game Room:
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- Television
- Satellite / Cable
- Stereo
- DVD Player
- Ping Pong Table
- Pool Table
- Video Games
- Internet
Pool & Spa
- Communal Pool
- Heated Pool
- Hot Tub
Outdoor Features
- Outdoor Grill
- Deck / Patio
- Lanai / Gazebo
- Tennis
- Sports & Activities
- Tourist Attractions
- Historic
- Adventure
- Family
Location & View
- Water View
- Waterfront
- Oceanfront
- Resort
- Ocean View
- Water Tubing
- Sound/Bay Fishing
- Parasailing
- Scuba Diving Or Snorkeling
- Kayaking
- ATM/Bank
- Groceries
- Snorkeling/Diving
- Snorkeling
- Basketball Court
- Pier Fishing
- Fishing
- Jet Skiing
- Fly Fishing
- Deepsea Fishing
- Wind-Surfing
- Golf
- Water Skiing
- Cycling
- Sailing
- Eco Tourism
- Restaurants
- Antiquing
- Beachcombing
- Walking
- Marina
- Churches
- Museums
- Recreation Center
- Playground
- Scenic Drives
- Shuffleboard
- Sight Seeing
- Massage Therapist
- Wildlife Viewing
- Boating
- Paddle Boating
- Miniature Golf
- Shopping
- Shelling
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Currency ConversionDates | Nightly | Wknd Night | Weekend | Weekly | Monthly * | Event |
Base Rate 2 night min stay |
$165 | $165 Fri, Sat, Sun |
$980 | $3450 | ||
Additional information about rental rates
RATES INCLUDE TAXES!!! :) A 5% fee will be added to all credit card transactions. Cleaning Fee $100.00. 25% Security Deposit due at booking. Yes we make last minute rentals so call for specials, please check calendar first.
New community fees due upon entry! = $50.00 plus tax for 1-6 people
regardless of length of stay. Additional Car or Trailer Parking,
(after 1st car) still $2.00 per day.
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Holiday and special events at higher rate. Please call or email for a quote. RATES INCLUDE TAXES!!! :)
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Owner info
Year Purchased: 2013
About the owner: A Florida West Coast resident since 1996 originally from Pittsburgh PA. As a Florida Keys vacationer for the past 17 years it wasn't long before the desire to reside here became a dream. Our fortunate luck has given us the opportunity to purchase this home and share it with other that have the same dream as well!!! Enjoy!!!
Why the Owner Chose Cudjoe Key:
Florida Keys, Waterfront Living, full time security, Boating, Fishing, Scuba Diving, Snorkeling, Private Pool and Hot Tub, Tennis Courts, Shuffle board, Dockage, Ship Store, Gas Pumps, Picnic Area, Children Freindly...NEED I SAY MORE!!!!
The Unique Benefits at this Mobile Home:
Casa Del Mar is a pefect located Florida Keys two bedroom home Situated 15 miles from Key West, Florida. This home is Florida is truely a sportfish paradise. It has been set up to make a fisherman or diver comfortable and secure. Outdoor storage includes a bait freeze and allows you to keep the home free of debris and gear. The rear home has the perfect outdoor deck overlooking the private canal and bay. With the pool, boat ramp and ships store located righ community so there is very little need for driving. From a full kitchen gas grill needless to say fresh catch is always on the menu. With 2 bedrooms sleeping a group of 6 is no problem (room one has a queen bed with room two offer double twin beds) and as a bonus dont forget the pull out sofa. The dock will hold up to a 36'' boat and has water and electric. Homes are cleaned weekly and all linens and towels are keep in good condition.
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The Company's common stock will trade under the symbol "GNBPD" for a period of 20 trading days as a result of the reverse stock split, and common shares will also trade under a new CUSIP number.
"The name change to Lion Biotechnologies reflects the Company's transition to a new management team and board of directors, along with the adoption of a broader growth strategy," said
Shareholders are not required to send in their current certificates for exchange. Following the reverse stock split, each stock certificate representing issued and outstanding shares of common stock will represent a fewer number of shares. The Company's shareholders of record will receive a letter of transmittal and instructions from the transfer agent, Corporate Stock Transfer, regarding procedures for submitting their stock certificates in connection with the reverse split. Those shareholders holding common stock in "street name" will receive instructions from their broker if they need to take any action in connection with the reverse split.
In connection with the name change and reverse stock split, the Company also fixed the number of authorized shares of common stock after the reverse stock split at 150,000,000 shares of common stock and authorized the issuance of 50,000,000 shares of "blank check" preferred stock,
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365 days ago I arrived on my best friend's doorstep in Queens, four enormous suitcases at my feet, dark circles under my puffy eyes. I didn't realize it yet, but for the first time in my life I wasn't just visiting New York.
I was coming home.
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365 days ago I arrived on my best friend's doorstep in Queens, four enormous suitcases at my feet, dark circles under my puffy eyes. I didn't realize it yet, but for the first time in my life I wasn't just visiting New York.
I was coming home.
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A few weeks ago, I passed a big milestone… the big two-five. It wasn't the easiest of birthdays to approach honestly – in fact, I think it was the first year of my life that I wasn't excited for October 1st to roll around. So many things haven't gone my way in the past year, and I think I got caught up in the feeling that I hadn't accomplished enough to be entering my second quarter-century.
But then October 1st came. I spent the day in my new favorite city, surrounded by my New York friends and family who I love more than I can explain. I felt cherished, loved, and happier than I have in a long time. I can't even express how grateful I am to each and every person who made turning 25 one of the best experiences of my life – each person who completely turned around my little pity party in a matter of moments and reminded me what's really important.
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When my best gal Bre turned 24 last month, she decided to celebrate in a big way. She rented out Social Bar's quaint, beautiful rooftop, threw together a DIY photobooth with tons of fun props, and filled bowls with tons of throw-back candy {think AirHeads, Pop Rocks, Ring Pops, Fun Dip}. So we basically sipped yummy cocktails, got sugar-high, and goofed-off all evening — it. was. AWESOME. Here's a glimpse at what went down… » Read the rest of this entry «
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Sunday afternoon I headed to Williamsburg for wonderful mimosas and brunch at Station with two of my best pals. After plenty of OJ and champs, we wandered towards the water to see the goods at Artists and Fleas and the Brooklyn Flea Market. My friend Bre scored some adorable vintage finds, but I just wasn't having the same luck. Then – just as I thought I'd be leaving empty handed – I spotted a $5 vintage bin and pulled out this little number… » Read the rest of this entry «
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For my entire education, from elementary school through college, I struggled with math. When I was a young boy, my parents couldn't afford tutors So I had to get help from my mom, who was patient but knew only so much, and my dad, who was an engineer and just couldn't fathom that any son of his could barely add 2 plus 2.
Of course, things only got worse when those crusty teachers of the '50s and '60s saw how dense I was.
I had a near-death experience sophomore year in geometry, where my teacher loved to publicly humiliate me at the blackboard or when she passed back tests I'd failed.
My parents managed to get me a tutor then, and I passed by the skin of my teeth when an old practice test the tutor gave me turned out to be the actual final. It was just a fortuitous coincidence, but I tasted sweet revenge when the sadistic teacher returned the test with a perfect score and couldn't humiliate me.
Thankfully, I had further math requirements in high school. Math tormented me once more in my freshman year college. But I got a student tutor and passed -- barely.
So what's prompted my true confessions about math? It's very simple.
As a substitute teacher in Fairfield the previous five years and now as a full-time sub for a charter school in Bridgeport, I've covered math hundreds of times. But in Fairfield, teachers left detailed plans, students worked mostly in groups and only about five students ever asked for help.
But now, the heat is on. For the next 10 days I am backing up a teaching assistant in freshman and sophomore math. And I can already sense disappointment from some students when they ask a question, and I just don't get it. Even the teaching assistant looked a little frustrated.
So after several sessions of just sitting like a log and not being able to offer much assistance, I decided to face my math demons straight on. I called my friend Bob, an engineer who has taught college math. I told him I didn't understand the day-to-day work and was frustrated.
He was happy to help, and I've already met with him once. He was very patient, thinks I'm dense but not hopeless and helped me feel comfortable. Bob has a terrific analytical mind and infinite patience.
So far, he's helped me to begin understanding the process behind math and how to arrive at solutions.
As he explained things, I was pleasantly surprised to find I was absorbing more than I thought. Without the criticism and humiliation from the punitive old biddies from Chicago schools of the '50s and '60s, this 69-year-old numbers dunce may just have a shot at finally building a math foundation.
Right now, Bob and I are covering basic things such as fractions, percentages, whole numbers, exponents and distributive problems, using the same day-to-day worksheets the students do.
Before my first meeting with Bob, I actually picked up an Algebra book and read the introduction along with a few chapters.
Decades after my math failures, I found the material much more interesting than I expected. It was a freeing experience to finally face my demons and jump into the frying pan. This is a mission for me. I need to prove to myself that for the first time since I completed basic college math in 1963.
My boss chuckled when I mentioned I was getting tutored, but he appreciated the initiative. He reassured me that I needn't worry about being math proficient, but I explained that the students deserved the most prepared teacher. He understood.
By mid-week, with just one lesson under my belt and more self-assurance in math than I've ever had, I walked into the classroom feeling confident. I was ready and waited to see if any students asked questions.
Only time will tell, but I absolutely intend to succeed. It's time for math and me to call a truce.
Steven Gaynes is a Fairfield writer, and his "In the Suburbs" appears each Friday. He can be reached at email@example.com.