The government isn’t going to pay for clever people just to sit in universities indulging their curiosity. No, they should be allocated something useful to discover and then research as hard as they can in that direction. Nothing good ever got invented by accident, apart from some silly fun stuff like the slinky, post-it notes, penicillin, warfarin and X-rays.
Never ever ask me to write something for you. and don’t pay me. i’d rather take £400 quid for assassinating a crack whore’s only child in a revenge killing for a busted drug deal - my integrity would be less compromised.
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| — | ‘I have never ended on an unstressed syllable!’ | The Guardian - Giles Coren gets upset over rampant subediting of his peerless prose. This is an old story but I completely missed it last year, and the insults are effing hilarious. |
An ESRC spokesperson insisted that Doctor Catchpole had created what he called ‘the wrong kind of impact’. ‘In general’, he went on, ‘the ESRC measures impact by the extent to which research findings agree with assumptions which have already been made by policy makers. In this respect, Doctor Catchpole has failed to make any impact whatsoever’.
Moat cleaning…you couldn’t get a more Tory thing to claim for. He may as well have tried to claim for the cost of his serfs being flogged.
I’ve just noticed this sort of thing getting increasingly common in higher education. That sentence doesn’t mean anything. I don’t think the words ‘leverage holistic governance’ should ever be put together.
