Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

Hefce scheme encourages businesses to co-fund students:Higher Education Funding Council for England to support government policy of getting businesses to co-fund students with up to £105m over the next three years
(Via Education Guardian).
At the same time Hefce confirm that the “controversial proposals to withdraw £100m of funding for people studying equivalent or lower degrees (ELQs) [...]

The ‘father’ of Pattern Languages is the architect Christopher Alexander. In the 1970’s he became concerned about the way in which the design process of living spaces had changed from one whereby those who live and use the buildings, streets, parks, etc. were primarily responsible for their design to one dominated by architects, town [...]

Try this out – send yourself a mail message inviting you to a meeting. In the body of message in the middle of some text include the meeting time and date something like ‘Thursday 12th February 12pm – 2pm. On receipt of the message you will find that Mac Mail recognises the pattern [...]