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Here’s another vertical video report I did for City, University of London. Here I talk about how the academic institution did in the latest release of the University league tables by Complete University Guide, which ranks UK universities nationally and regionally 🇬🇧🎓

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Thanks to everyone for the messages and reposts. I wanted to provide an update, which hopefully answers all your questions. I'm looking for a maximum of 6 FE colleges in England (not Wales, sorry!) who deliver college-based HE and are interested in participating in a collaborative project that will involve staff and students using the Cycle of Collaborative Observation (CoCO) as the methodology for exploring the theme of effective transitions from FE to HE in college-based contexts. Students will work collaboratively with staff to explore agreed areas of focus through CoCO, with the aim of developing an evidence base that will inform and improve the learning experiences of the students participating on a range of courses and for students in the future. If you are interested in participating, I need you to do two things in the first instance: 1) Email me to formally express your interest with your details: matthew.oleary@bcu.ac.uk and 2) get an agreement in principle from the relevant senior leader in your college. There will only be a maximum of 6 colleges involved in the project proposal I'm working on at the moment, so I'm afraid this is on a 'first-come, first-served' basis. Thanks for your interest. Matt

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😳 ➡ ➡ ➡ 🤠 That first week I'd been to two colleges already & dropped out because I just could not find traction around a focus of study AND Because I was paying for all my college, I was quite invested in ensuring that the outcome of my education was targeted, focused, WORTHY of the time, energy, and treasure Was this a step backward? I completely erased all the accumulated credits when I applied to Oxford - their undergrad program does not accept previous university experience from anywhere else in the world Your entire University career depends on 8 comprehensive exams, taken at the end of your final year of study. No quizzes, no quarterly tests, nothing.... One week, one Thesis paper, & twenty-one hand written essays set the score for your entire University experience Hard, you bet; scary, ALOT I was in heaven. The experience taught me to read deeply, argue dispassionately, write with reasonable clarity (which is the same as thinking). Work with consistency, put the hay in the barn every day, treat school like a job, delay What You Want Now, for What You Want MOST I learned a great deal about paying attention, integrating a crazy volume of information into a focused picture, & making the complex a little bit more intelligible SO, to the freshers rolling in to the first term of 2024. Godspeed. You have an amazing opportunity in front of you that will be determined by how to spend each hour, of every day between now & exam week Spring 2028 What an amazing metaphor for life - Cowboy up:)

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Some fantastic work shown in this video by level 6 business and management students working on a consultancy project with me on student sense of belonging! It focuses on second year undergraduate student's belonging moments, because this is often a time they can disengage. Well done team! Sammy Ridding Charlie Whale Leeds Beckett University Zakk Mitchell Jack Johnson #senseofbelonging #studentexperience

That's Caius.. 🥰🥰 So weird to see them on LinkedIn as I have seen them even talking about that Sainsbury 🙃 and right inside Caius College on Instagram all the time.. They are a trio actually - there is someone doing theology originally from Oxford, like me.. 😇 I would have gone to Cambridge, not touching Oxford at all, if I had known about Caius but I only found out about Caius through Varsity fencing as part of Oxford.. Oh, it was tough genuinely tough inside me... Never mind how fabulously fantastic Cambridge is for the stuff I do, as evidenced by how many times my old uni sent me over to Cambridge to get me trained properly in bioinformatics and dealing with loads of raw genomes to dig in, including this routine stuff, sequence structural alignment, easy peasy 3d modeling and that well-known probability matrices representing domains like voltage-gated potassium channels vs calcium dependent ones.. you know.. those little bits.. 😇 Anyway, mostly, the original works underpinning the bread and butter of what you do to find a target from any genomes and tossing out the structural meanings, in order to do something about the easy part of finding biological genomic targets - that's just how you get started.. 🙃 most of them were from Cambridge, if not the east coast across the pond, or Swiss something - they are good and Heidelberg for EMBL.. That's how I got cooked from vanilla blank.. So my old uni was good to send me away so often, to teach me how to do stuff.. Oh they do more fancy things and far more computationally expensive tasks producing glorious pictures unlike my sort of basic not much glory at all, a lot of basic steps you go over and over.. That's not a popular thing.. I did some stats at the hospital in the medical campus opposite JR hospital but again 🙃 not the fancy part of making gorgeous sophisticated graphs.. 😇 If you gonna get something really out of that, you have to see the raw data of clinical trials as the datasets are sent over to you for processing from wherever in the world.. They are not always readily compatible nor comparable.. And this attrition rate... it kills you as one line of coding you add in your script to handle those attritions can change clinical efficacy, before your eyes, to a range which begs a belief.. No one is too keen to do that part.. Someone has to do it.. How much effort those people would have put in to produce that ugly dirty looking datasets and all those numbers are real people and one box of attrition might have been down to someone got too ill to walk to the ... or their family member was taken severely ill preventing them from keeping to the schedules agreed.. It's so emotional and heavy to be faced with raw clinical trial data... Some of these famous drugs' efficacy would drop to .. you don't wanna know.. if you ... and that's not what they want from biostatisticians.. Absolutely not.. 😇 Never mind.. 🥰 Gonna make a cuppa. Okay. Bye. 🩵

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