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Engineering. Education. WP. Policy. Bits and pieces.

[SBE @ESapience]

@TheNewsAgents @GlobalPlayer @maitlis @RobSladden Surprised to hear no mention of the 112 civil protection alert system. How does Rob think people got advice of when to evacuate and where to go?

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#FYNAC22 thank you for an excellent two days of exchanging ideas on #foundationyear

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[SBE @ESapience]

The Engineering Foundation #EFY at @ucleast is launching in 2023! Aimed at under-represented groups it offers support, academic skills & the confidence to move onto Engineering UG degrees at @UCLEngineering. Join our info event on 7th July at 4pm! https://t.co/kw7WzIkEKK

[Shannon Chance @shannonchance7]

Both surprised and delighted that our work won the Prof. Susanne Ihsen Award for Best Paper on Diversity and Inclusiveness at SEFI 2021! #EDI #SEFI2021 @InesDireito @tempest2349 @Wintla

https://t.co/yNHTedipxk

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Pandemic burnout will slow restart of research – universities must accept that overworked scholars cannot simply resume their research careers overnight, says @JennyPickerill https://t.co/qyWuwbJ05k

[everywoman @everywomanUK]

Today marks the official opening of the 2022 @FDMGroup
everywoman in Technology Awards! Celebrating the tech industry’s most exceptional talent, from the UK and beyond. If you know a talented individual nominate them today! https://t.co/Dbo8pjEeu1 #ewTechAwards #womenintech

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Microcredentials don’t stack up, academics warn: paper from @leesaw2 and @GavinMoodie dismantles arguments for higher education’s latest ‘craze’, arguing that micro-degrees are “gig credentials for the gig economy”.
https://t.co/bOzieto7od

[SBE @ESapience]

@nicola_dEU @debra_fbpr Nope. The owners are Grecotel, a Greek family owned chain of hotels. Russians stay there, but I doubt any Russian has any significant assets is this kind in Greece.

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@chrisholley12 @VirtualAstro Because it's night over the UK. https://t.co/dp7pTgnfsQ

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@IKEAUKSupport same as everybody else, no reply to DMs, phone line not working and I've been trying to get in touch since early November.

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@GeorgeMonbiot "Ideological commitment to the private sector" is what in other parts of the world is called corruption. Yet we never see that C-word in UK media.

[SBE @ESapience]

An inmate’s love for math leads to new discoveries https://t.co/kLKegJaWSF via @ConversationCA

[The Office for Students (OfS) @officestudents]

'Universities and colleges must stop making these offers that are not in the best interests of students. They should not make any unconditional offers or amend existing offers for at least two weeks while @Ofqual develop the new system' @nicoladandridge https://t.co/EJGkapCUmW

[Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart]

awww. for all the faculty new to #online out there & worried they're not doing it right...

let your students see your humanity.

see theirs in return. that's what #education should be anyway. :)

[OpenLearn @OUFreeLearning]

Due to school and university closures around the globe, many educators have been told to #pivotonline.

Our FREE @OpenUniversity course 'Take Your Teaching Online' will teach you more about new tools and pedagogies for online teaching. Try it: https://t.co/UZ0453fzHN

#OER

[NASA @NASA]

Our @NASA_Astronauts have been flying to space for more than 50 years and for nearly 20 years, crew members have spent months-long missions living on the @Space_Station. Take a look at what we have learned studying social isolation on and off the planet: https://t.co/vEdN0bUy70

[Guardian Education @GuardianEdu]

'People think it's magic': how one of Brazil's poorest cities gets its best school results https://t.co/aUX0dwtwYS

[IEEE Spectrum @IEEESpectrum]

Here's why building a universal quantum computer will be so difficult—and how engineers may overcome the many challenges involved. https://t.co/p9AppvwfsS