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Just by way of another brief interlude in my self-imposed blog silence while I am upgrading software and design, I wanted to mention the wonderful speech I heard yesterday. One of the nice things about being one of the university's governors is that I can get to choose to go to pretty well any number of graduation ceremonies.

Oxford Brookes University moves up to top gear Posted by: Faye Sunderland Launch of the Sustainable Vehicle Engineering Centre at Oxford Brookes University The introduction of European Union legislation on vehicle recycling and the environmental challenge faced through the rapid expansion of

Alert! Kelvin Smith - who may be known to some readers from his work with Oxford Brookes University, CODE Europe, Book Aid International and SABDET - has written to BOOK SA in hopes of soliciting a few comments on the state of publishing in our neck of the continent.

Kelvin Smith Wants Your Views on African Publishing August 27th, 2008 by Ben - Editor Alert! Kelvin Smith - who may be known to some readers from his work with Oxford Brookes University, CODE Europe, Book Aid International and SABDET - has written to BOOK SA in hopes of soliciting a few comments on the state of publishing in our neck of the continent.

This is more than a little parochial for me, and just a tad conservative with a small "c" - it reminds me again why little changes can deeply affect people in all sorts of ways. And whilst my own thoughts on this are probably unprintable, and not only because the decision has been made by my employer

Marvellous news from my old University, Oxford Brookes. They’ve announced that Shami Chakrabarti is to become the new chancellor. She succeeds Jon Snow, from Channel 4 news. I’ve a huge amount of respect for both Jon Snow (my various posts here), and Shami Chakrabarti: She’s an impressive personality

Just a quick post to highlight what the Guardian is saying about what I mentioned last week to celebrate Chami Chakrabarti's appointment as our Chancellor here at Oxford Brookes University: Tackling gender equality in universities | higher news | EducationGuardian.co.uk Jessica Shepherd reports

I don't blog about work much, but this is exciting news you all ought to share! Last year, here at Oxford Brookes University we got terribly excited about being only the 17th UK Higher Education Institution to have appointed a female Chief Executive , in the form of Vice-Chancellor Janet Beer, who's now had her feet under the desk for nine months or so.