and they have not made the connection to the "weekend only" issue.
There is a nice chart in the FT piece - but it is 22/23 data!
we are 3 years on from that. CCCU's franchising has doubled since then
FT has run a couple of good stories recently, but if they'd spoken to the right people - rather than Economics profs - they would have realised it is mostly franchised provision that they are looking at.
student ratio at CCCU is something like 1:3 core to franchised and most of latter is Business
I think they only clocked v e r y recently what was going on with franchising.
DfE seemed to think it was just HEIs collaborating with local FE colleges.
Canterbury Christ Church had turnover of £100m pa c. 5 years ago. Now over £300m - all of that income growth is franchising.
ok take 2
the reason i appear to care - i was there when it was written etc etc, i was part of team grischuk in kazan 2011 (together with bacrot and riazantsev) so i had a front row seat to it
looks like it from the picture.
I was just debating whether to get tickets. Probably the band I saw more than any other in late 90s / early 20s.
Do they have 2 drum kits front of stage?
Tortoise live, 2026
Great to see #Tortoise last night. The bass was so loud/ rumbling, I'm pretty sure it dislodged my prostate. I first saw them in London about 30 years ago. Then I saw them in San Diego in 2004. And now in Switzerland. 3 shows in 3 countries over 3 decades. Excellent band.
old ice lolly cinema ad for 'A Love Supreme'
Heathen that I am, for some reason I've always thought that 'A Love Supreme' sounds like the name of an ice cream or lolly.
"Two Cornettos, an Orange Maid, a choc ice, and a Love Supreme, please"
🎞️ A lost silent-era film -- "Gugusse and the Automaton" made by French film pioneer George Melies in 1897 -- has been found inside a battered wooden trunk in Michigan and donated to the US Library of Congress.
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I blame Pink Floyd
Absent a comprehensive national solution, therefore, the escalating financial demands to succeed in football and basketball combined with the significantly loosened rules governing eligibility, transfers, and pay-for-play schemes may force curtailment of women’s and Olympics sports, and may even jeopardize the overall financial well-being of universities with which the Federal Government has important financial relationships. Universities are important defense research contractors for the Department of War, important medical research contractors for the Department of Health and Human Services, and important scientific research contractors for the National Science Foundation. The health of the university system is integral to the Federal Government’s basic functioning.
The White House issued an executive order on college athletics (on a Friday evening during a long weekend for many Americans). I zoomed in on this paragraph given the cuts to research in today's proposed FY27 budget.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This week on Wonkhe: The plate glass universities were founded on intimacy, radicalism and community. Adam Wright asks whether an obsession with growth has made those promises impossible to keep
🇯🇵 Teams race for rice in Japan's office-chair endurance contest
Dozens of competitors take part in the ISU-1 Grand Prix in Japan, a two-hour endurance race inspired by Le Mans run entirely on unmodified, store-bought office chairs.
how much has Goldsmith paid its finance directors in recent years??
I would point the finger at managers and government first & second.
consultants do normally get the basic maths right, unlike managers at two institutions relevant to this post.
NEW on Wonkhe: The 22,000 weekend delivery students need information wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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⚖️ Isabelle Adjani soupçonnée de fraude fiscale: le parquet général a requis jeudi à Paris contre l'actrice une peine de 18 à 24 mois de prison avec sursis probatoire et 250.000 euros d'amende, avec exécution provisoire.
many will be making a swift exit.
and the error has been clearly laid at the feet of the universities involved...
🐋 Exceptionally rare footage of sperm whale giving birth in the wild
Scientists have released footage of a spectacular event rarely witnessed by humans: a sperm whale giving birth while other females worked together to support the mother and her newborn
this development has not really been picked up by mainstream media.
wonkhe.com/blogs/weeken...
Excellent overview by Jim.
I would add that this creates huge financial difficulties for at least 5 of the institutions affected. Franchising was doing most of the cross-subsidy work.
I used to live across the river Dee from Holt. Corfe is the more famous example
my firsthand tip is that Public Enemy covered Edwin Starr's War (and they were fantastic live)
the wait is almost over, and in a couple of hours the candidates will finally take off. i'll try to post some thoughts about the rounds after end of play, but for now - very happy to be here, with jan, to talk about my favorite event as it unfolds.
www.youtube.com/live/fGON0E0...
perhaps next you can "recreate" the weekend of April 2003 in the abandoned Pontins at Camber Sands?
www.setlist.fm/festival/200...
opening night included The Fall, Public Enemy, Aphex Twin
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson unpacks the fallout from a DfE crackdown on weekend course misclassification – and finds students caught between forced repayment, forced delivery changes, and a system that is unlikely to accept blame buff.ly/Wd1hPso
I used to work in this one. Now featuring as for location filming - e.g. Killing Eve
also hosted the 2018 world chess championship in the adjoining Peacock Theatre
This is great. The cognitive load of decision-making is part of Coase's point that there are costs of using the market. Companies have specialists to cope with such costs: HR depts, buyers, lawyers etc. But individuals don't.
An Iran-linked hacker group has accessed an email account of FBI Director Kash Patel and published personal photos and other material online, US media reported Friday.
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