A lot of UK corporate travel booking services send out #Train tickets as PDFs on emails with no way of adding them to Apple Wallet, which is super annoying when getting to a National Rail gateline with patchy internet access and having to navigate your email.
I’m building a little service to solve this problem. Right now it’s just an email address that you forward the PDFs to and it replies with the tickets as a Apple Wallet passes
Does anyone here know how to find statistics on student numbers per discipline - ie how many students in the world enrol for/graduate with each discipline? And how these numbers change over time? I am particularly interested in #Anthropology but it would be good to see it in comparison.
People working for the heat pump industry are being told that they are crazy and have no sense of the cost of their ideas, and that there is no way we can have heat pumps as the only form of heating.
#ClimateDiary Huge sad outburst by 12yo (in Y7) just now about how boring school is. Day after day the same things, double maths, double English, all hammered in for #GCSEs in 4 years. Would love to hear from any #UK#Teachers or teenage parents on here: Is the English National curriculum really just incredibly boring?
She also said: what is the relevance of all this for #ClimateCrisis? I want to learn history and geography and science, the things that actually matter and will help us 💔 1/2
Interesting #news values on the #BBC site just now, down from the main news from #Russia. A #pop#festival performance is apparently more important to us than the #UK government's response to the #crisis in nuclear armed Russia. Further down, more from the same festival is more newsworthy than policy developments in the #SNP, a party seeking the breakup of the UK. I don't know who pockets the profits at #Glastonbury, but they must pay their #PR bods plenty to get this stuff reported as "news"
Does anyone have a strong attachment to the county where they are from?
I get that Yorkshire and Cornwall generate strong feelings and a sense of shared identity.
I'm from Surrey and I've never thought of myself as a Surrey boy. If I met someone from Sutton for example, I don't think I would find any common ground.
Anniversary of the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass on Sunday 23 April so here's Commoners Choir with From Below. If you want more related folk songs then there's Manchester Rambler by Ewan MacColl, and the rearranged version by John Tams, and Trespassers by the Young'uns (on their album Tiny Notes on Bandcamp). And there's a short, song filled, documentary about the Kinder Scout trespass by the Young'uns with Boff Whalley on youtube. If you can't find links for any of these let me know and I'll post them.
For every footprint on the land,
For all the banners and the banned,
Should we keep to the landlord’s plans? Hell no!
‘Cos real change comes from below.
Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks
The council has said its continuing trial of the practice, in which office staff and bin collectors are paid the same for working 20% fewer hours, has already helped it improve recruitment and led to over £500,000 in savings on agency workers.
After lunch yesterday, we went to the #HistoryOfScienceMuseum in #Oxford. It’s not very big but contains some really fascinating exhibits. It is right next to the #SheldonianTheatre and well worth a visit.