Robin Mellors-Bourne

Thoughts on careers and also on higher education; Research Director at CRAC/Vitae; lapsed volcanologist. Views are my own

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

@nickhillman Suggest you try buying for FA Cup once it gets going. Much easier.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

We @CRACcareers are hiring for a new Head of Research and Evaluation post. Do please share if you know potential candidates https://t.co/k9I1puwnY0

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

@JohnnySRich You might be a Private Eye reader. Did you see item in middle of p7 of this week's issue?! I claim priority.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

The PM says it is normal to rebuild or refurbish 500 schools per decade. And there are 22,000 schools. So that means schools have to last 440 years. Hope they built them well. Oh, ...

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

My MP must be very proud to have the endorsement of such a diversity of constituents.

[Thérèse Coffey @theresecoffey]

Thank you to the Selection Council of Suffolk Coastal Conservative Association for re-adopting me aa their candidate for the next General Election #VoteConservative

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

I agree @Rosie148 I have repeatedly been surprised in career surveys how so many people view their career path as positive in hindsight, irrespective of their direction.

[Dr Rosie Alexander @Rosie148]

I've been saying this for years as a careers adviser. I have rarely spoken to people who have regretted making changes in their jobs, more often they've regretted things they didn't do....

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

Clever...

[CRAC @CRACCareers]

📢Looking for enthusiastic & motivated professionals to join growing team for Vitae programme that @CRACCareers manages.
Exciting opps managing portfolio of projects & undertaking research & eval around careers & related policy areas. https://t.co/m1oH5ijufH Deadline: 4 Jan

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

@rolandharwood @EdUKaid Fantastic, well done. Am impressed if under 4 hours, too. R.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

@KFenbyHulse There are some interesting short stories in 'Land of big numbers' by Te-Ping Chen. Some quite dystopian.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

6 days on, this still reads well.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

As this is a major gov't response, can we expect announcement of a kettle scrappage scheme?

[Tommy Sheppard @TommySheppard]

Buy a new kettle and save £10 on your £3,549 energy bill, says Johnson.

The Tories just don’t get it. Never have, never will. #YouYesYet?

[Random Neil 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🌍 @NeilDav80348247]

If you would rather have a general election than this. Please retweet and we can see how far it goes.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

What puzzles me is gov't argument that you shouldn't windfall tax them because they've committed to invest, I think, 18Bn *between them* by 2030. That's chicken feed compared with profits.

[Simon Roach @RoachSN]

Oil and gas companies say they’re going green. Yesterday I looked through some of their accounts to see if it’s true.

In the first half of this year, 4 companies made £74.4bn and reinvested £3.4bn in low carbon energy. On average, that’s equivalent to 5% of their profits.

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[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

At last someone has mentioned decoupling the market. In response to question about why we are paying for electricity at gas generation prices when most isn't gas generated. So....?

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

Why are UK electricity consumers being charged gas-price-driven prices when only minority of UK electricity is from gas? I have to pay extra for a 100% renewable tariff - it ought to be cheaper! Somebody in the middle must be making increased profits at expense of consumers.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

I'm sorry but the actual figures don't support the idea that non-UK students are displacing UK. Non-UK went up by 1360, UK went down by 12,000. This was position 1 day after A2 results. Other influences are at play.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

A record one in five young undergraduates starting at top universities this autumn are from overseas, according to official figures, up 7%in a year. The number of British undergraduates has declined by 13%

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

@Cash4Questions It is pretty hard to find labour market info like that. So these are estimates from our recent work on fellowships - we have evaluated several schemes - and analysis of HESA data.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

I think the more relevant ratio is under 500 ECR fellowships in total in UK per year amongst more than 30,000 postdocs.

[Robin Mellors-Bourne @HeadofWeather]

6 minutes of perspective.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

This film has been viewed more than a million times across social media. Huge thanks to @GavinEsler for his voiceover