“Very Serious Incident” outside DMU

[Samilktray]

Been reminded of the great summer of 2016, catching pokemon on Pokemon Go down on Bede Park

[Muzzy_no7]

All those little videos from Leics Live, just let the Police do their job FFS

[Parafox]

3 hours ago, SpacedX said:

Thank you for clarifying. 

 

Unfortunately, DMU finds itself in appreciable deficit along with approximately 40% of the sector. It had pedigree in some subject areas and has significantly contributed to the economy of the city. Its reputation has deteriorated as has the calibre of student. The entire Higher Education sector is in crisis largely due to inherited costs whilst government is largely indifferent. It's as though they believe a cull is necessary and that natural selection will ensure the survival of the fittest, meaning the elite, which was precisely what New Labour committed to challenging all those years ago. The former dichotomous model between University/Polytechnic should never have been have been removed.

I agree with you in particular your last sentence. Uni was always considered a cut above a Polytechnic but now there seems a weak blend of both. 

[SpacedX]

16 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I agree with you in particular your last sentence. Uni was always considered a cut above a Polytechnic but now there seems a weak blend of both. 

In the case of some institutions yes. Thirty years on from the abolition of the "binary divide" through the Higher Education Act, did polytechnics become universities, or did universities become polytechnics? 

 

Some things got better. Universities have been enabled to cite metrics that are intended to reflect the quality of learning and teaching and significant pedigree of many practically applicable courses were carried over in addition to more kinesthetic learning and pedagogic practice as opposed to the traditional autodidactic assumptions of university teaching.These metrics have become an important, albeit slightly flawed means for students to make informed choices about where to study. Of course it's right to be suspicious of metrics, in particular when they result in league tables, as they always will. But it’s a good thing that students have access to various forms of empirical evidence about the likelihood of them getting a good deal when they sign up for a course.

 

The alternative to the use of these actual metrics is to return to the old-fashioned, implicit metric of “reputation”. That’s basically how students used to have to decide things. And it wasn’t good enough. Some Modern Universities prior to being awarded their charter such as Trent, Coventry and DMU never did very well in that regard, and that was never fully justified. 

 

And this is where the story of metrics becomes increasingly perplexing. There was and remains a culture of valuing research revenue higher than teaching in the higher education sector as a whole. One reason for that is that research activities produce metrics that are easier to interpret on an individual level.

Grant-capture and peer-reviewed publication are a currency that are much more easily spent on individual career advancement, than the more diffuse, collective achievements of teaching teams. Inevitably things that are measurable have a tendency to take priority over things that are less measurable and soft targets. Much easier to envisage, and thereafter forge a career from research publication than to do the same from teaching excellence, perhaps in part why many  Russell Group universities have been outperformed by the Moderns in the TEF framework. 

 

As a Polytechnic an institution was unambiguously in the business of teaching and vocational skills. Some within remain proud of their Polytechnic heritage, and have mixed feelings about the consequences of the 1992 act in which those less academically inclined students find themselves increasingly out of sorts at university. To the VCs, a charter conferred land, estates and status often lacking in its previous life as a polytechnic. 

 

 

[Muzzy_no7]

Man from London charged with Murder.

 

Victim from the capital, too. 
 

Has it been confirmed that the suspect was also at DMU? 

[South Shire Fox]

44 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Man from London charged with Murder.

 

Victim from the capital, too. 
 

Has it been confirmed that the suspect was also at DMU? 

No surprise whatsoever. London c*nts bringing gang culture with them

[whoareyaaa]

I wouldn't say it's just DMU this is happening al lover the country, gangs use uni's to peddle drugs.

Edited 6 February by whoareyaaa

[Voll Blau]

2 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

No surprise whatsoever. London c*nts bringing gang culture with them

 

2 hours ago, whoareyaaa said:

I wouldn't say it's just DMU this is happening al lover the country, gangs use uni's to peddle drugs.

Any danger we could wait for the facts of the case to come out in court before saying stuff like this, eh lads?

[South Shire Fox]

36 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

 

Any danger we could wait for the facts of the case to come out in court before saying stuff like this, eh lads?

Do normal people carry knives around with them then?

[Voll Blau]

7 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

Do normal people carry knives around with them then?

You've got me there, DCI Facebook...

[Ashley]

Twat of a presenter from Sky News saying his name wrong multiple times. OliPEADO how do you even get to that? Show some respect.