Showing posts with label University of Warwick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Warwick. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Not Washed or Cooked, # 244

A Russell Group university offering a mangled service to its graduands/graduates and their guests during graduation week:

shutlebus

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Double-take, # 157

The University of Warwick has decided that its TeachHigher initiative is not a good idea after all. Here is the opening sentence of its announcement to that effect, published yesterday:

Link: The University of Warwick – Insite, ‘Update on Teach Higher and VAM Payroll Transitional Project’
the subject of the conditions and pay for postgraduates who teach has been the subject of significant debate

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 20

Warwick University's student newspaper The Boar misplaced its spellchecker some time ago, and it still seems to be missing:

 
The same error features in the printed version, which adds further information about the author.

 The Boar, 35:6 (9 January 2012), p. 7.
 
I'm not sure what a Comment Editor does, but it seems not to involve editing in the sense of checking or proofreading…