The Higher Education (HE) world and the associated academic discourse would appear to be in a state of panic right now – at least in the British and American HE sectors. We have open rebellion at Durham against online learning and COVID-19 gutting finances whilst (going by job boards, LinkedIn, etc) an apparent rush to hire… Continue reading Panic in the disco(urse)
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The obligatory Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) post: With virtual working and online learning on most of our minds
This post has been in different stages of draft for a week or more and I am just doing a quick edit of the below before pushing it out – well aware that anything written on this topic soon becomes out-of-date. For example, the Facebook group mentioned below has gone from about 8000 members to… Continue reading The obligatory Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) post: With virtual working and online learning on most of our minds
10 years of Twitter
I recently received my “10th #twitterversary” email from Twitter and it made me reflect on my use of the platform. I’ve never been a big tweeter, tending to use it share at events and also retweet/like things that I would later blog about from those same events. Otherwise my use has been fairly limited. Going… Continue reading 10 years of Twitter
The often ignored realities of talent management (#2): one real solution for (screen based) workplace productivity
I think some posts on this topic have been lost on an old blog of mine so it can come in here as the second in this series… Do you hunch over a laptop? Do you constantly switch between apps, windows and tabs? Are you desk based but just have one monitor? If you answer… Continue reading The often ignored realities of talent management (#2): one real solution for (screen based) workplace productivity
Thoughts on L&D Recruitment 2 of 2: Applying
As a follow up to my previous post, now some thoughts on my job hunt. It’s over two years since my last job search, this time self-inflicted rather than redundancy driven. I had gone very ‘eggs in one basket’ for a role in an organisation I am really keen on (but have heard today they… Continue reading Thoughts on L&D Recruitment 2 of 2: Applying
