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Useful education links for June 22nd through July 2nd

TweetThese are the education links we found interesting between June 22nd and July 2nd:

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Investigating a “toxic waste dump” school – Sheila Oliver

Tweet Sheila Oliver has been investigating the decision to build a school on contaminated land over at sheilaoliver.org/toxic-waste-dump-school-.html – the processes that should have been followed… “After much harranguing by local residents the Council grudgingly carried out contamination investigations. These were completely … Continue reading

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Useful education links for May 15th through June 12th

Tweet These are the education links we found interesting between May 15th and June 12th: Key Gove adviser blocked civil servants’ free school inquiries – Office of the Independent Adjudicator – OIA Homepage – The Higher Education Act 2004 required … Continue reading

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IP policy at West Midlands universities part 2

TweetCross-posted from Student Intellectual Property Rights This post is intended to be a follow-up to part 1, which I posted previously, and will look at the IP policy of the University of Birmingham, University of Warwick, University of Wolverhampton and University of Worcester. … Continue reading

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IP policy at West Midlands universities part 1

TweetCross-posted from Student Intellectual Property Rights Following on from my previous post, I narrowed down my study of university IP policy to West Midlands-based universities. As there are quite a few universities in the region, I will firstly be looking at … Continue reading

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An introduction to university claims over student IP

TweetCross-posted by Anthony Williams from Student Intellectual Property Rights. The world of intellectual property can be murky at the best of times, but where universities can claim IP rights over the work of students, it is especially so. The University … Continue reading

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The Adjunct Project aims to promote transparency in higher ed

TweetA new U.S. website, The Adjunct Project, is looking for data on how adjunct, or contingent, faculty are treated at institutes of higher education. The best part about this is that anyone can submit data. There’s a fairly simple form … Continue reading

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Students are increasingly turning to prostitution to fund their studies – or are they?

TweetUPDATE (Feb 29 2012): The Telegraph reports on research that suggests “one in ten students know someone who works in sex trade”. The actual research is somewhat more specific: “A tenth of trainee doctors now claim to know someone who … Continue reading

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Didn’t catch Gove’s answers to #AskGove? Read our Storify summary

TweetA few weeks ago, we blogged about how the Education Committee was soliciting questions from the public to ask Michael Gove via Twitter. Did you miss the actual committee meeting where Gove answered the questions? Well, there are a few … Continue reading

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Receive email or RSS alerts on education reports, consultations and links

TweetInfo4local.gov.uk is a useful government website providing feeds and email alerts on a range of services – including education. The registration page for email alerts gives an indication of how narrowly or widely your free subscription can cover – from … Continue reading

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Link: Boris Johnson advertises for unpaid intern (and some legal context)

TweetGraduate Fog do some straightforward digging to reveal that London Mayor Boris Johnson, who “attacked young jobseekers for lacking the “appetite” to find work”: “Is busy recruiting for his own unpaid intern to help with his Back Boris 2012 campaign … Continue reading

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HMI Education’s list of education reporters

TweetWhat better way to stay informed on education issues than having access to a database of national and local education correspondents? All the correspondents can be found here. There’s also a Google Reader bundle of those and other feeds here. … Continue reading

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