It’s Just Gareth

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#OU; Senior #Editor #Carbon; #CEng #FIMMM #CPhys #SFHEA #Genealogist #F1 Fan #CQ & #Familyman. Usual caveats apply...

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

Don't forget to submit your papers to Carbon... any questions, let me know. https://t.co/MTz0arrA7N . .

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

Another year and another pitiful pay increase sub inflation…. Should have been a train driver… @bphillipsonMP @Keir_Starmer … the question is whether HE is in crisis? https://t.co/Ins8CeZQMg.

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

It’s an early start this morning… Morris Dancers welcoming the day in… Happy May Day everyone

[Yasuhiro Yamada @Ysh_Yamada]

A New Class of Carbon Materials for Advanced CO2 Capture: Viciazites, carbon materials with adjacent nitrogen functionalities, published in Carbon https://t.co/18n3PiYHsh

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

It’s hot! Luckily I found an old conference freebie to help keep me cool!!! Fanning away… 🥵

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

This is a crazy decision… far better to have 16-24, and my prediction will be a U turn on 21. The principle of the levy is now broken. Higher skills will now decline particularly in health… 😢

[FE Week @FEWeek]

🆕 Public funding for level 7 apprenticeships will be removed for people aged 22 and older from January 2026, the government has confirmed

https://t.co/Tvvcr3gbex

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

And I wasn’t alone in thinking its bad… https://t.co/HP9kuyEcom

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

This might seem like a concession, but it is not especially those that access HE through foundation courses or makes no allowance for placement years or other circumstances… bad policy leads to bad results - higher tech skills needed @bphillipsonMP

https://t.co/n03hu7nYig

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

You can see a short presentation on the work here… https://t.co/la5fduWtt8

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

Looking forward to presenting our work on Employer Facing Education later this week at #eSTEeMConf25 - Wed & Thur

Join the discussions throughout the conference via @OU_eSTEeM

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

Interesting reading of the https://t.co/2SVOGGrfUe brief this morning. No mention of critical minerals or the infrastructure needed for EVs. We need to have a comprehensive LCA to secure more environmental sound ways forward… some old ideas too on shared ownership

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

“The government’s forthcoming apprenticeship reforms will deter many employers from upskilling their workforce via higher and degree apprenticeships, according to 69% of the nation’s universities.”

Important to retain Level 7 skills

https://t.co/y52qRPrQD3

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

@UKRIO @Impacthublondon Great to be here and contributing to this important event and guidance in progress by @UKRIO #UKRIOAuthorshipWorkshops

[Faculty of STEM, The Open University @OU_STEM]

Applications are now open for 2025 PhD projects with CENTA, a consortium of research-intensive universities and institutes, offering doctoral research training in Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Find out what opportunities there are with the OU: https://t.co/c1n05lpjWr

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

December headline from 24 years ago.

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

Proud to have signed a letter to @rachelreevesMP to #KeepFundingL7Apprenticeships (coordinated by @UniAlliance)

The UK economy needs high level skills and workers need the opportunity to up-skill especially in #STEM

https://t.co/nTsUh1syuN

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

My new badge arrived in the inbox today…

#AssociationOfMentalHealthFirstAiders

#MentalHealthMatters

#MentalHealthFirstAiders

#WorkplaceWellbeing

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

Supporting @RAEngNews & #NationalEngineeringDay celebrating brilliant engineers. Whilst I never met #Brunel (besides in wax), he had a big influence, esp. when I helped to create @utcswindon from his old engine sheds. Legacy lives on with new engineers through education @OU_STEM

[OpenLearn @OUFreeLearning]

Today is #NationalEngineeringDay - a celebration of how #engineers make a difference in the world and shape the future, and the theme for this year is 'engineering role models'.

We’ve 'engineered' some fantastic free resources to mark the occasion...

https://t.co/qSPU8viHlK

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

The most moving remembrance at #stowe @nationaltrust with complete silence at 11 with the last post.. I’ve been to a few and this was the most moving as the guns fell silent

[It’s Just Gareth @GNeighbour]

Early pre-dawn start, at @nationaltrust stowe gardens for the event ‘for your tomorrow’ recognising the fallen… very moving and solemn. Very grateful for the sacrifice of the earlier generations.