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		<title>University tuition fees &#8211; the accounting is almost over</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Offa deadline for universities in England to declare the fee levels they propose to charge from 2012 passed yesterday. In the run-up, the Times Higher Education (THE) has been tracking declarations. The data make interesting reading. Despite David Willett&#8217;s initial assertion that most would charge more than £6000 only in &#8220;exceptional circumstances&#8221; and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=126&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK university web site rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a quick post prompted by the recent Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of university web sites according to sixth formers (&#8216;Deciphering the code&#8216;, 19 August 2010). There are of course &#8211; as most people acknowledge &#8211; serious methodological questions and caveats with most newspaper league tables, this one included. However, the impetus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=119&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy &#8211; a conceptual framework for SALT?</title>
		<link>http://pllatreille.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/strategy-a-conceptual-framwework-for-salt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having recently taken up a new role as Director of the Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT), I&#8217;m beginning to think about developing a strategy for enhancement of Learning and Teaching. The graphic here, courtesy of JISCInfo and via Julia Ault seems a good starting point. Posted in Teaching<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=85&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Credit crunched?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit crunched?, originally uploaded by pllatreille. Couldn&#8217;t resist this one, taken on Edgeware Road. Seems like boring is the new exciting (at least in banking)&#8230; Let&#8217;s hope there&#8217;s something behind the facade! Students: comment on the role of expectations in driving the credit crunch. Posted in economics Tagged: advertising, city, credit crunch, economics, finance, london, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=55&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All quiet on the blogging front (or is it?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long while since my last post (8 months or so to be precise), mainly because I tend to use my public postings to talk about teaching related matters. And that&#8217;s how long it&#8217;s been since I last did any teaching proper. What&#8217;ve I been doing instead? I&#8217;ve been working on an ESRC/Acas-funded placement at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=48&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progressive humour&#8230; ?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 17:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me will know of my major penchant for prog(ressive) rock music &#8211; I&#8217;ve even got the name of an IQ album into a presentation at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference . The genre often takes itself very seriously, with a reputation for pomposity and self-indulgence. IMHO humour is essential &#8211; not least to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=42&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why essays are like sandwiches&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pllatreille.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/why-essays-are-like-sandwiches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common mistake made by students in exams is the equivalent of thinking you can make a sandwich without the bread...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=40&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Student attendance and lecture notes on VLEs: part of the problem, part of the solution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...while making notes available via VLEs may be part of the problem, the technology potentially also provides the means to be part of the solution.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=29&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Money</title>
		<link>http://pllatreille.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/making-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not how to (would that I knew the secret myself)! I&#8217;m actually referring to the title of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s latest Discworld offering&#8230; I&#8217;m just coming to the end of this now, and speaking as an economist it&#8217;s been great fun to play &#8216;spot the economics concept&#8217;. There are just so many in there: fiduciary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=21&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The qualities of a top student &#8211; a lecture exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried out my first &#8216;new&#8217; material on my first year EBG102: ICT &#38; Study Skills for Business and Economics module last Friday, using an idea that I&#8217;d originally come across in a paper by Anne Lee and Penny Burden from Surrey University entitled &#8220;Personal Development Planning and the Economics Tribe&#8221; (a revised version of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pllatreille.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1689304&amp;post=8&amp;subd=pllatreille&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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