A stone carving over a door: very innate. Reading AD 1909, Girls' High School

Llwyn-y-Bryn, Gower College Swansea

This epitaph goes hard.

A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.

“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”

It is also a very tedious read, so I may well have glazed over at some points and missed crucial bits in the write up

Essentially, the judgment is: it looks like it will meet DAPS criteria if they do their plans, lets see what happens ...

There's a lot of words in the OfS report on its assessment for New DAPs. Its hard to tell without seeing the original evidence, but it looks like there might be more academic human involvement in teaching than the THES headline suggests

www.officeforstudents.org.uk/media/syvowi...

Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin smile out from the cover of an album: Songs from BBC TV's Play School and Play Away

At 11am on 21 April 1964, Play School made its debut, and became the first programme ever broadcast on BBC2

10/10 for the explanation

Well, yes

Its the competency: he's not demonstrating any of the qualities that you look for in a leader. Throwing civil servants under the bus isn't a great trait.

Lukewarm take:

What Keir Starmer brought to the table was the perception that he was competent and had integrity

Neither of these attributes is looking positive for him now

Part of page 411, the Glossary to 'Faster Than Thought', edited by BV Bowden, 1953. Copy available online at https://archive.org/details/fasterthanthough00bvbo As well as the Cybernetics entry quoted in the post, it also has, 'Computor. "Bad spelling of computer" — Oxford English Dictionary.'

"Cybernetics. A word invented by Professor Wiener to describe the field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal. None of the authors quite understands what the word means, so it has not been used in this book."

Yes!

The rot started with the transistor radio

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

#dataviz

That robot who ran that marathon is now in a work meeting thinking how they can mentions it in the any other business.

UNDIAN EASTER was the answer to a cryptic crossword clue I was doing in my dream last night

No, I don't remember the clue

No, I have no idea either

Wot no Trostsky?

I've not yet been able to read and digest John Blake's full report, but the interim recommendations seem really good: they're eminently do-able and would make a real positive difference

Looking forward to spending proper time on this when I have finished my to-do list*

* ie when the sleeper wakes

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a grand entrance hall, all archways and fireplaces and staircases, with fancy brick and tile work. Printed on the card is Entrance Hall, the University of Liverpool

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

The students must have been erk’d

www.maptap.gg April 21
95🏆 100🎯 100🎯 64🫢 81✨
Final score: 830

Round 4 was my little finger brushing the screen, honest

But round 5 was just me being rubbish

Wordle 1,767 4/6

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Terrified at the prospect of confronting Granny Weatherwax, Bob found a punt and launched it onto the river

We've lost the notion in many universities, I think, of leadership being stewardship of a community

Oooh, nostalgia!

Of all the places I've worked, Goldsmiths was the most challenging, but also the one of which I am fondest

Assuming you already follow @dreadships.bsky.social ?

The best alt-text in the business, and threads of joy, in a field you didn't know you'd be interested in

Merthyr most foul and unnatural

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer.
I'd genuinely be better. #VoteBinface

clues from the cryptic crypt:
PM under pressure, recycling trite remarks, wasting time (4,7)