Six of the Best 566

MediaMasters has a cracking interview on Labour and political communication with Gordon Brown's former spin doctor Damian McBride.

"Recess is a lot more than just a free break for kids to play after lunch period. That free, unstructured play time allows kids to exercise and helps them focus better when they are in class. Now a school in Texas says it took a risk by giving students four recess periods a day, but the risk has paid off beautifully." Elizabeth Licata brings news from Fort Worth.

Lion & Unicorn on cautious welcomes.

"It’s time we authors were paid, not in promises of better sales and high profiles, but in money. Yes, actual cash. Is that too much to ask?" Guy Walters complains that literary festivals expect writers to work for nothing.

Andrew Hickey pays tribute to the great Roy Wood and in particular his LP Boulders, which was recorded earlier but released in 1973.

The names proposed for Crossrail's stations are all wrong, argues John Elledge.

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David Bowie, economics and education

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I have come across two reactions to the death of David Bowie that take us well beyond the world of music.

Stumbling and Mumbling - written by Chris Dillow and always interesting - quotes Danny Finkelstein before rightly taking issue with him:

He [Finkelstein] writes: 

David Bowie – undoubtedly one of the artistic geniuses of the past 50 years – was the great product and great producer of consumer capitalism…He was subversive because capitalism is subversive, overturning the status quo, restless, and profoundly democratic. 

I disagree. It is markets that are subversive; capitalists would much rather keep the status quo and the profits rolling in. Danny says that Bowie “was possible because in a consumer capitalist society nobody can ultimately stop anybody doing anything.” But surely the word “capitalist” is superfluous in that sentence?

Chris goes on to draw a very different moral from Bowie's career:

He only became wealthy after setting up his own management company. This tells us a lot. People don’t become rich by merely by being creative. They get rich from ownership rights: in was only when Bowie claimed these that he prospered. In this sense, capitalism is a means of exploitation. 

The conflation of capitalism with markets irritates me because I suspect it is a means whereby the right smuggles in support for inequality. Many of the virtues it claims for capitalism are in fact the virtues of markets, and in conflating the two the right thus gives the impression that the case for capitalism is stronger than it in fact is.

Kevin Maguire, writing on Politics Home, also questions modern pieties (and incidentally introduces our Trivial Fact of the Day):

There’s a lesson in the likelihood that a young David Bowie would today be considered an unfortunate teenager failed by his school, with Bromley Technical High’s staff fearing a dreaded visit from Ofsted’s inspectors. 

His single O Level, in art – a subject taught by fellow rocker Peter Frampton’s father, Owen, self-evidently an inspirational schoolmaster – fell a long way short of the five good GCSEs, including English and Maths, or its equivalent, that is considered by many of us, never mind officialdom, as a pretty good yardstick ...

I raise Bowie’s less than sparkling academic qualifications not to dismiss the importance of GCSEs, NVQs, Baccalaureates, Highers, A Levels, Degrees or A N Other certificate you care to name if it signifies achievement. Everybody, from pupils and parents to teachers and Education Secretaries, deserves applause if they’re striving to raise standards and, especially, improve the prospects of kids from poorer homes who too often are left behind. 

But Bowie, the boy from Brixton born into a working class home who finished school with that single O Level, is a reminder that passing exams isn’t everything; a dearth of formal qualifications is not the end of the world.

I do wonder how many of today's IT millionaires were chided for "messing about with computers" by their teachers in the 1980s.

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Disused railway stations in North Yorkshire

Recent videos in this series have covered Aberdeenshire and Lancashire.

You can find the earlier ones listed in the Lancashire post.

One day soon I will give them their own label.

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Penerimaan Calon Tenaga Non PNS Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa Tahun 2016

Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa dimulai dengan berdirinya Yayasan Pendidikan Tirtayasa pada tanggal 1 oktober 1980 berdasarkan Akte Notaris No: 1 Tahun 1980, kemudian dilakukan penyempurnaan dan dikukuhkan kembali dengan akte Notaris Ny. R.Arie Soetardjo, Nomor 1, Tanggal 3 Maret 1986.

Kata Tirtayasa (Bahasa Sansekerta yang berarti Air Mengalir) diambil dari nama Pahlawan Nasional yang berasal dari Banten, yaitu Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (Kepres RI Nomor: 045/TK/1070). Nama Asli Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa adalah Abul Fatih Abdul Fatah, pewaris ke-IV tahta Kesultanan Banten. Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa dianugerahi tanda jasa Pahlawan Nasional karena dengan gigih menentang penjajahan Belanda dan berhasil membawa kejayaan dan keemasan Kesultanan Banten.

Lowongan kerja Januari 2016 Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa - Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa sebagai perguruan tinggi negeri yang baru terus berupaya melakukan perubahan-perubahan dan perbaikan-perbaikan, baik dibidang kelembagaan, akademik, maupun dibidang kemahasiswaan dan kerjasama.

Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa saat ini menyelenggarakan program pendidikan akademik dan program pendidikan vokasi. Program Pendidikan Akademik terdiri atas Program Pendidikan Sarjana(S1) sebanyak 6 fakultas dan 1 Program Pendidikan Megister ( Pascasarjana), yaitu (1) Fakultas Hukum, (2) Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, (3) Fakultas Teknik, (4) Fakultas Pertanian, (5) Fakultas Ekonomi, (6) Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, dan (7) Pascasarjana. Jurusan/Program Studi yang saat ini dimiliki sebanyak 21 Prodi untuk Program Sarjana dan 3 Prodi untuk Program Megister dan Program Diploma III Ekonomi.

Penerimaan Calon Tenaga Non PNS 

Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa Tahun 2016

Berdasarkan Pengumuman Rektor dengan Nomor 010/UN43/KP/2016 Tentang Penerimaan Calon Dosen Kontrak, Tenaga Laboran, dan Pustakawan di Lingkungan Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa Tahun 2016, Untirta mengundang seluruh calon peserta dengan kualifikasi sebagai berikut:

Tenaga Kependidikan :

• D3 Teknik Elektro
• D3 Teknik Mesin
• D3 Teknik Industri
• D3 Teknik Metalurgi
• D3 Teknik kimia
• D3 Teknik Sipil
• D3 Perpustakaan

Dosen / Tenaga Pendidik :

• S2 Pendidikan Luar Biasa
• S2 PPKN
• S2 Pend Sosiologi
• S2 Bimbingan konseling
• S2 Pend. Teknik Mesin / Pend Otomotif / Pend Kejuruan / Teknik Otomotif / Teknik Mesin
• S2 Pend Elektro / Pend Kejuruan / Teknik Elektro
• S2 Pend Biologi
• S2 Ilmu Pemerintahan
• S2 Teknologi Hasil Pertanian / Perikanan
• S2 Teknologi Perikanan Laut
• S2 Pengelolaaan Sumber Daya Perairan
• S2 Akuntansi
• S2 Akuntansi (Konsentrasi Perpajakan)
• S2 Manajemen (Konsentrasi Manajemen Pemasaran)
• S2 Manajemen (Konsentrasi Manajemen Perbankan)
• S2 Ekonomi
• S2 Ekonomi Islam / Syariah

Info loker 2016 lainnya : Lowongan Kerja PT Citilink Indonesia

Tata Cara Pengajuan Lamaran : 

Jika Anda memenuhi kualifikasi pakerjaan dan berminat untuk melamar perkerjaan ini, silakan kirimkan lamaran yang ditujukan kepada Menteri Riset, Teknologi dan Pendidikan Tinggi melalui Rektor Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa dan dikirimkan ke PO BOX 2801 Serang 42124, paling lambat tanggal 18 Januari 2016 cap pos

Kelengkapan berkas lamaran dan info selengkapnya silakan lihat di http://untirta.ac.id/berita/1247

Informasi lebih lanjut, silakan lihat sumber resmi berikut ini :
Info Lowongan Kerja 2016

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