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Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 23/05/2015 - 6:22pm
"Rental stress" is defined as a tenant "forced to spend 30 per cent or more of their income on housing". Wow. For maybe 6 months in my entire adult life I have _not_ had rental stress. http://ur1.ca/mm5uk
Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 22/05/2015 - 10:12pm
Congrats to Phillip Adams for getting through an entire interview with somebody named James Brown without once asking if he felt good. A standard of professionalism to which I could never aspire. #LNL
Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 22/05/2015 - 9:18pm
When trying to remember the names of either Milton Friedman or John Maynard Keynes, my addled brain locks onto Milton Keynes and refuses to go any further.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 22/05/2015 - 8:59pm
You know that little bit of lateral jerking and swaying you do on a train, like a Gerry Anderson marionette being held as still as possible? And the smell of stitched leather on the sunny side of the carriage? God, I miss that.
The next time somebody asks you to believe that the best way to allocate educational resources is through the well-informed consumer choices of (mostly) 18 year old kids, or that the best way to assess the performance of academic staff is through the considered judgement of those same kids, I ask that you make an earnest effort to remember what you were like when you were 18 years old.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 22/05/2015 - 12:37am
Always happens after leaving the house for longer than it takes to go to the corner shop and back. I'm over-stimulated and not at all interested in going up the little wooden hill to Bedforshire.
Once or twice now (I'm being evasive to protect my sources), when venting frustration at neoliberal higher education, I've been told by a member of the academic precariat (paraphrasing heavily):
"I completely understand where you're coming from, and I sympathise, but I don't personally work like that. I go through the motions of administrative accountability, but what I do is principally guided by my own academic integrity, and is as near as possible to what I would do under ideal circumstances."