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London-based reporter for Quartz, 10-year veteran of . Mrs and mom of two great girls

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Joined July 2009

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  1. Big q: Will it be rigorous enough? says yes. “It’s academics who think you need 24 modules in one discipline to be a proper graduate. Kids are like, ‘not so much, I will take what I need but complement it and enrich it’.“

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  2. Team includes helped who built BASc at And as advisor “The role of teaching undergraduates doesn’t get the attention it deserves,” she says. Also wants to test new innovations in assessment which she has been working on at

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  3. It captures the zeitgeist (21st century skills!) but also acknowledges false dichotomies in ed: students need skills AND knowledge, student agency is important BUT professors should design curriculum; employers have insights but should not be in charge of education.

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  4. Will it work? Lots of hurdles. The university wanted to open in 2020 but did not get regulatory approval. Aiming for 2021. Faculty have flocked to sign up (>600 applications for first 6 spots), student interest: 300 kids applied for 100 places

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  5. Q at the heart of it s: is uni worth it? V imp for health, wealth and happiness but also, very £ and in the UK, very narrow. will scrap single academic areas and put problem @ center of curriculum and rsch methods around it (data science, mach. learning, interviewing)

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  6. Idea is draw on multiple subjects—economics, psychology, sociology, statistics—to solve complex problems like childhood obesity or palm oil supply chains

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  7. The future of work is radically changing - does the future of higher ed need to change to prepare for it? Ed Fidoe and think so: They are founding a new university in UK based on interdisciplinarity (it’s a word) via

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    You don't prescribe or program community, you contribute to it and invite it in.

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  12. "For some Britons, this was Independence Day. For others, it was a national bereavement" on the mixed emotions of Brexit day

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    Today is my brilliant editor 's last day at Quartz, aka Jexit. We sent him off in the only suitable way: with his very own IPO prospectus

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  15. “And I don't know a soul who's not been battered I don't have a friend who feels at ease I don't know a dream that's not been shattered or driven to its knees But it's all right, it's all right” Simon and Garfunkel - American tune

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  16. Playlist just jumped from Billie Eilish to back street boys. Had two thoughts: music has improved. And life used to be a lot lighter.

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  17. Why so much larger difference for men than women?

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    On this, the eve of our departure from the EU, it seems a good time to share a sneak peek of my talk, in which I celebrate the emotional specificity of the German language....

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  20. You cannot easily measure character. Often response is - then let’s not wade into it. But if you talk about courage collaboration and kindness everyday, in math and science and not just as a bolt on...you help build it and show its importance (show don’t tell)

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