Riddle
Under stone, beneath heath, deep in the
sodden ground.
Turning earth, giving worth, humblest
serpent brown.
Eyeless monster of the deep, when do you
sleep?
Every the pleasure of birds, toddlers and
boys … what are you?
Losing our presence - how the latest @OpenUniversity #location "consultation" is utter madness ...
After reading a considered write up from colleague Ray Corrigan and support from Cory Doctorow I feel that here is one decision from our senior management, that for the first time in seven years made me wonder about the state of mind within the Open University (OU). One of the primary reasons I joined the OU is that it was a organisation I could get behind - irrespective of its many eccentricities. It's mission to enable whomever that tried; to reach for higher education - this was something I could easily get behind. We do need to look at how we use the different offices - but to cull them in such a manner and looking at the outcomes of the location analysis. Strikes me that whomever was given the job - did little to review each location and approached this from a purely numerical perspective. Having worked hard to develop a community of Cisco Academies, Vendor interests and interventions in the Computing and Network Engineering teaching communities. I have used thes...
A relative of this Anglo Saxon?
ReplyDeleteA moth ate songs--wolfed words!
That seemed a weird dish--that a worm
Should swallow, dumb thief in the dark,
The songs of a man, his chants of glory,
Their place of strength. That thief-guest
Was no wiser for having swallowed words.