Just catching-up with this @UniversitiesUK report on the significant return-on-investment in both research and teaching and learning provided by universities. And can’t help noting that none of this benefit can arise without outstanding libraries
58% of children in Aston live in poverty. Soon their only access to everything a library has to offer is to walk 2 1/2 miles to the Library of Bham or ask their families to pay for public transport." Our children deserve better @BhamCityCouncil!
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As @BhamCityCouncil plans to slash library services in a city where 45% of children grow up in poverty, we say it’s time to roar. Here’s a new poem, ‘The Roar’ by Birmingham’s Poet Laureate @JasmineGardosi ❤️🔥 Join the fightback at @BrumLibraries
“It’s a soft target, isn’t it? If you close libraries, nobody dies – that’s what they think. But what’s happening is it’s society who suffers and people who suffer.” Says Michael Rosen https://t.co/RyNOCEMXkV
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New Edition James Boyle & Jennifer Jenkins, Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society - Cases & Materials; An Open Casebook (6th Edition 2024) https://t.co/q3N4rE91K4
@CrossCountryUK The 7.26 from Macclesfield to Stafford was cancelled and I have a return ticket. Can I get a full refund including the return element, even if that train is running (17.03) as I obviously won't be on it?
I've seen this piece promoted several times this week, and it's always great to see the academic voice speaking up strongly about the costs and wrong-headedness involved in academic publishing [1/12]
https://t.co/NbsImmhvJm
If AI really is the key to fixing Britain’s productivity, we need clear and transparent processes on where the tools have come from & their working limits.
Politicians & commissioners need to ask the right questions to ensure tools are fit for purpose and working as expected.
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