Jonathan Tummons

'Retrieval practice' is not a synonym for teaching or learning. The learning = memory narrative is really problematic for our conception of what education is. #EduSky

Regulators open inquiry into University of Greater Manchester amid fraud claims University is already being investigated by police over ‘allegations of financial irregularities’ and has suspended three of its senior staff

A regulator that waits for journalists, whistleblowers, MPs & police to do its work is failing in its basic duty

The soporific Office for Students finally lumbers into action at Uni Greater Manchester .... after months of allegations of bribery & misconduct

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Regulators open inquiry into University of Greater Manchester amid fraud claims University is already being investigated by police over ‘allegations of financial irregularities’ and has suspended three of its senior staff

A regulator that waits for journalists, whistleblowers, MPs & police to do its work is failing in its basic duty

The soporific Office for Students finally lumbers into action at Uni Greater Manchester .... after months of allegations of bribery & misconduct

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Boulez is going to the charity shop. It's just not good enough. #NowPlaying the Böhm Siegfried which is much more like it. Better in every way. As fast as you need it to be. Tremendous through line - it really does sound like one (big) single piece.
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Tomorrow is Record Store Day Black Friday, sadly we won’t be participating by stocking overpriced exclusive releases scraped from the bottom of a barrel.
What we will be doing is our own version of Black Friday by giving away a free copy of this LP to the first 3 paying customers to ask for one 😎

Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector

"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

More Wagner homework so #NowPlaying the Boulez centenary recording. And he goes at quite some speed - you do lose a bit of detail sometimes. RIP Donald McIntyre who sadly passed away recently - singing The Wanderer here and he's really good.
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.

Blimey I had completely forgotten that I own that record. I have put it on the pile for tomorrow. Genuinely cannot remember what it sounds like.

That is such a fantastic record

This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes.

Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.

Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.

That is such an excellent record. Love Neko Case.

Siegfried by Richard Wagner. This is the Marek Janowski cycle released on Eurodisc in the early 1980s. On my record player and ready to go!

Early homework today for the next part of the Ring Cycle at Covent Garden so #NowPlaying Siegfried cond. Janowski. Hugely underrated Cycle and overall preferable to some other big name studio versions (Solti, Karajan, Levine, Haitink, I am looking at you)
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Věc Makropulos by Janáček - CD box set on the Decca label.

Getting my homework done for Covent Garden the week after next so #NowPlaying Věc Makropulos by Janáček (which I don't know as well as his other mature works) whilst reading a PhD thesis, which constitutes a pretty good day at work I reckon.
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Gender-related violence in Australian and UK universities We analyse interview data from two projects undertaken in Australia and England to explore gender-related violence (GRV) and its impact on university staff. This focus is novel and important as mos...

Great to see my article with Emily M. Gray is now published open access.

Lancaster University industrial action begins Monday with 1 in 4 jobs set to be axed Staff at Lancaster University will begin industrial action on Monday November 10 over management’s threat to axe one in four staff, the University and College Union (UCU) announced.

Senior management at Lancaster University insist cuts of 1 in 4 jobs are “difficult but necessary”

This means “we messed up the finances & you’ll be paying for it”

www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...

More by Pulp playing on my record player.

Why, yes, More. by Pulp is #NowPlaying on my record player *again*. The real question is for anyone who hasn't listened to it yet: why not?
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#Nowplaying volume 2. Worth it for the first track ("Jeannine"). This is my only proper OG @bluenoterecords.bsky.social pressing, though I can't remember where I got it (it was ages ago). Will keep this old one when the Tone Poet reissue arrives.
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#JazzSky

I am going to go back for another PhD when I retire if I can afford it. I started out doing history and I still miss it.

Yes! Old memories activated. Borders had an excellent music section in terms of coverage but they were always more expensive. But back in the day they were occasionally good for hard-to-find titles (cd releases on Constellation being a good example).

Donald Byrd At The Half Note Café volume 1, all set up and ready to go on my record player.

Donald Byrd is #NowPlaying in my front room. At The Half Note Café volume 1. Tone Poet reissue on @bluenoterecords.bsky.social and sounds absolutely amazing. Proper hard bop, no messing about. Excellent! And excited for the volume 2 reissue.
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Some Kind of Fun: Hüsker Dü’s Generational Blues The miracle year and miracle band that shaped the sound of underground music to come.

Hüsker Dü’s miracle year wasn’t because of happenstance or good luck; it was due to hard work, inner strength, and a big, unforgettable sound. Here's a look back on this formative era for the band.

Smokin' At The Half Note. Jazz LP by the Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery. On my record player and ready to go.

Am having a slow start today (worked late yesterday evening because reasons) so #NowPlaying some proper hard bop whilst drinking my coffee. I should start EVERY day like this.
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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted

This story is grim - and one outcome of the ‘business’ model of higher education. Academic freedom at risk not (just) within a country but from external forces…

Pretty much perfect

Love that record. Remains my favourite thing that they've done.

Programme for La Bohème by Puccini, performed by Opera North.

Splendid evening with @operanorth.co.uk last night for some Puccini: thanks very much! Looking forward to Britten and Mozart in February. At the end of this month, off to London for some Janáček, which I am particularly excited for.

The financial backers of the war on woke THERE is a professor on the TV telling you that Britain is run by a “new elite of radical, woke, middle-class liberals” who want to stop you from feeling “British” enough — and that it is the real pro...

"Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. "
#Reform #politics #woke
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...

That's a fantastic record