University 5

You deserve better

You deserve better

A candid reflection on leaving academia. From silence and sacrifice to freedom, trust, and a life beyond the lab.

The world is going to university

The world is going to university

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Kofi Annan

In the last few years I have experienced many universities, all of them are building. New campuses, new …

Post results

So, after the weekend in Manchester and having watched lady E run the race for life we have returned to Nottingham. So we only have a day or two now until I go off on Doug’s stag weekend and after that its a week in Sherringham on the Norfolk …

Nearly there

So, today is Wednesday. And university is all but past tense. He says with his fingers crossed, for Friday we find out if I actually have to do a viva next week. Which if I do then there shall be 30 minutes of hell next week on Tuesday or Wednesday …

A new beginning

Hello and welcome to my new blog. Some may remember my original blog that was hosted for many years on a certain social networking site. Unfortunately it was lost to the ether as a result of an argument with a particularly crazy girlfriend and as a …