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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve read some great books recently, and this is one of them. Since retirement. I’m slowing inching my way towards a better understanding of the long 17th Century. @alicehunt.bsky.social

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Replacing yourself with an AI avatar is an understandable response to the students’ persistent overuse of AI. We end up with the entirely pointless scenario of avatars teaching avatars…..

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Garn Goch Iron Age hillfort overlooking the magnificent Tywi Valley in Carmarthenshire. With a total enclosed space of 16.6ha, Garn Goch is one of the biggest hillforts in Wales. Strangely, I had this hugely evocative place entirely to myself. #HillfortsWednesday #Wales 📷 By me, last Thursday

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I stumbled across the 1964 film ‘Culloden’ by Peter Watkins. It relies mainly on amateur actors to portray the tragedy of the battle for those involved. Modern scholars would no doubt quibble about some of the historical detail. The anti-war message owes much to Vietnam. youtube.com/watch?v=whKK...

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Culloden (1964) Dir. Peter Watkins 1080p BluRay

YouTube video by Play For Forever

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m currently very much enjoying ‘The Road to Mons Graupius’ by @classicalalan.bsky.social My only problem is having left Scotland a couple of weeks ago I now need to plan another trip

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Here we go again. When talking about wild fires, why differentiate between the UK and Europe? The UK remains geographically part of Europe. Hence “As Europe battles wild fires” would have been fine. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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As the UK and Europe battle deadly wildfires, what lessons can Australia offer?

Knowledge learned over more than a century in Australia is being tested by worsening fires. It’s a familiar narrative around the world

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Muir O’Fauld Roman watchtower. One of 17 such watchtowers along the Gask Frontier. Situated just a few miles SW of Perth. #RomanFortThursday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Moredun Iron Age hillfort near Perth. The largest hillfort in the Tay Estuary. Fabulous views north to the Cairngorms, west to Dundee and the Tay bridges, south to Fife. #HillfortsWednesday 📷 By me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Tomnavarie Stone Circle, complete with recumbent stone. Near Aboyle, c.3,000 BC. #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The plaque below marks the house where the infamous Duke of Cumberland slept prior to the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746. It can be found at No. 38 High Street, Nairn, but you wouldn’t find it if you didn’t know where to look. The battle was undoubtedly an awful affair. #Jacobites #Culloden

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Pictish cross stone in Nigg Old Church, Easter Ross, Scotland. Dates from the 700s. Reputed to be one of the finest surviving Pictish carved stones, and one of the most elaborate such stones surviving from early medieval Europe 📷 photo by me #Picts #Pictish #findsFriday #Scotland

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

'On average the raw lifetime earnings gap for those aged 37 in 2022 who went to university, and those who could have but did not, was £290,000. And this includes a 3.5 per cent discount rate (applying Treasury Green Book rules) that lowers the value of earnings in later life'. 1/3

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Higher education study still makes financial sense for most

DK examines what the Institute for Fiscal Studies has done with a few extra years of data on graduate earnings, and on a new approach to comparing graduates to their non-graduate peers

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Wild camping with Suilven in the background. Not another person for miles #wildcamping #Assynt #Scotland

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Clachtoll Broch, NW Scotland. Iron Age homestead from 2000 years ago. Remarkable. I know it’s not a hillfort, but would ask for your tolerance. #hillfortWednesday 📷 by me yesterday

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

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The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Wild camping on Dartmoor. Because we can. Even at our advanced age #OkeTor #righttoroam #leavenotrace #stormynight 📷 by me, yesterday evening

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Better late than never… Charges sought for up to 57 people over Grenfell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I can only hope that I live long enough to see the UK back in the EU. But alas, the probability of this happening is very small. Perhaps my children will one day be able to celebrate such a day. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Where does UK-EU relationship stand and how might bid to rejoin bloc be received?

Labour leadership contender Wes Streeting calls Brexit a ‘catastrophic mistake’ while Andy Burnham sees ‘long-term case’ for rejoining EU

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Tre’r Creiri Iron Age hillfort in N Wales. Fabulously impressive and views to die for. #HillfortsWednesday 📷 photos by me, Monday

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Pont Britannia. Originally a wrought iron tubular bridge designed by Robert Stephenson. It opened in 1850 to complete the rail link between London and Holyhead. The bridge was destroyed by fire in 1970 and given new life by the addition of the steel arches now so dominant. #engineeringhistory

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Mosaic with head of Medusa. 1st Century BC from Pompeii. Now in Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli. #mosaicmonday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Visited the Mary Rose for the first time. A remarkable insight into the mid-16th Century, not least through the recovered day-to-day artefacts. 📷 By me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Mosaic of Mediterranean sea life. Pompeii, House of the the Geometric Mosaics. An octopus fights a lobster surrounded by a myriad of sea life. Early 1st Century BC. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli #mosaicmonday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Finally, yesterday, I made it to #Pompeii. It was everything I expected it to be, and more besides… Photos 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Danebury Iron Age Hillfort in Hampshire. Fabulous first time visit. Monumentality writ large. #HillfortsWednesday 📸 Mine

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Broken record here, but we cannot fix, save, improve, renew or whatever English universities if we only attend to taught students, DfE and OfS. Universities are major engines of research, innovation and civic good. Minimally DSIT must also be centrally in the frame. They're not big schools.

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Call for ministers to curb ‘excessive risk-taking’ at universities - Research Professional News

Former government adviser says Office for Students should be given “significant new powers”

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Roman fort at Ambleside in the Lake District. Stunning location at the head of Lake Windermere. #RomanfortThursday Photo by me.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I’m not normally one to boast about my educational achievements on social media, but in 1965 I received 1st prize for good attendance at Manchester Road Methodist Sunday School in Burnley.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Temperate rainforest alive and well in Langdale.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Here lies the remains of Britain’s only truly europhile prime minister. Salisbury Cathedral.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I’m really enjoying reading this. It’s a real page-turner. The adopted long-term perspective on the relationship between UK and EU brings fresh insights @tommctague.bsky.social

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Swarkestone Bridge near Derby. Most southerly point reached by the Jacobites in 1745.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close. That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education? #Universities #HigherEducation

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“I believe funding study from general taxes is a good thing for the UK and despise the older generations who went to university for not paying their share and lumping it onto my generation.” www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...

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£99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans

As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the system

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is excellent -highly recommended. I say this as someone who has worked in the university sector for 40 years. Cap doff to @gsoh31.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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The Universities’ Doom Spiral – Can Britain avert disaster?

Podcast Episode · Oh God, What Now? · 03/02/2026 · 1h

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It all started with the Trent Outrage..

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