We have just come through the league table season, with the Guardian, the Times and even the new look TEF, each offering their versions of the best universities in the UK. On LinkedIn and elsewhere colleagues are finding the numbers that position their universities in the best light and telling the world that they areContinue reading “Reflecting on Excellence”
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Robin and Marion: Reworking Medieval Structures.
While travelling back and forth between Kidderminster and Swansea I listened to a great deal of music and a sizeable proportion of that was medieval music. One CD struck a chord with me and got me thinking. It was a performance of Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion by Adam de la Halle. ThisContinue reading “Robin and Marion: Reworking Medieval Structures.”
I am Approaching Sixty: Thinking about the Creative in Myself.
I am currently reading two rather bizarre and somewhat eccentric travel books (and yes, I always end up reading more than one book at any one time, it comes with living in two different places). The first is Rose Macaulay’s Towers of Trebizond. The opening sentence, with its reference to both high mass and camels,Continue reading “I am Approaching Sixty: Thinking about the Creative in Myself.”
Martin Stringer Quartet 