amwilson.bsky.social
Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
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Sounds complicated!
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Thanks. But I don't mean my posts but interesting ones by other people I would want to come back to.
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Thanks.
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Thanks.
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Thanks. Pity.
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I don't, I'm afraid.
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From before even silent film was mainstream - amazing!
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Oxford has a half-hearted attempt at this, with a Purcell Road, a Hugh Allen Crescent and a Crotch Crescent in close proximity.
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So many people have a problem with this piece. I love it. Maybe you have to sing it to "get" it.
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I opened this with some anticipation but was disappointed to read that, like so many other exciting opportunities, it is age/career stage-limited. There need to be more opportunities that are open to all. Senior scholars are struggling at the moment too, with the big wave of redundancies starting.
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You know your stuff! (I just wear skirts and dresses, presuming I "can't do trousers".)
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Haven't found a style of jeans that fit and flatter, then or now. The most uncomfortable garment known to woman - at least for an hourglass figure.
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Definitely (and looking to expand my freelance journalism...). Will be in touch.
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She got her facts entirely wrong about there being "two music schools" in Cardiff. (A conservatoire is not a university and the constituencies for their courses are quite different.) She really exposed her ignorance there.
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Thanks!
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Her new one, the Green Cookbook. Also River Cottage Veg Every Day by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall.
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We did. Alas, they didn't!
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But worse, that's how it is for those of us being made redundant at professorial level: too young for a pension, too old for a career change. What to do?
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Yes, some people might be in a situation where it suits them to quit. But for some of us, having our careers taken away from us in middle age, when it's so hard to find another long-term job, it's beyond cruel.
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As I said, it's misleading to suggest people might get a year's salary and whatever light taxes are. And I was a good deal younger than that, with big financial commitments stretching a long way ahead.
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ACAS acted as a mediator to try to get them to be a bit more reasonable. Then the time ran out to take them to a tribunal. It would have cost me a lot in legal fees; they knew I would blink first. But it was unfair.
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Anyway, to cut a long story short, people seem to think I am "all right" because they imagine I received a big, fat payout, probably running into six figures, and they are really shocked when they hear the truth.
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I can't remember exactly what the VS offer was. We did the maths and there was not much in it. At most the money would get me through to September or so. Where did that leave me either way? It was an insult and they refused to show any flexibility or generosity.
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To get not a penny more than the statutory minimum (which I think was around three months pay, if I recall correctly) after 19 years, was derisory. I had heard of professors elsewhere being offered a year's pay as a minimum.
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The VS was a worse deal for us. It meant leaving in January. If we took redundancy we got to keep our jobs till June (to complete teaching for the year), then got the statutory minimum.
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That said, "top" universities may handle things differently. I can't get behind the paywall to read it.
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...but who weren't ready for the commitment of a PhD, or able to afford one. We had a large network of contacts with interests in opera. It was surely a winner. I kept mentioning it. Little interest shown. 7 months later, they're rolling them out.
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I'm not sure but can enquire. Thanks.
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Anyway, I didn't know anything about this and am reading the website with interest - thank you for the tip.