{"id":210,"date":"2017-11-23T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=210"},"modified":"2017-11-23T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T14:47:23","slug":"brave-new-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/23\/brave-new-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAVE NEW WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously inspired by subtext\u2019s recent embracing of technology, the Vice Chancellor has decided to bring his particular badinage of vernacular to Twitter, and you can follow him at: twitter.com\/VCMarkESmith<\/span><\/p>\n

Amongst pictures of him mingling at conferences, praising speakers and announcing his speaking engagements, we noted that the VC recently retweeted a WonkHE columnist\u2019s list of the \u2018dumbest university rankings\u2019, which included the Spiked Online \u2018Free Speech\u2019 league table and the People and Planet\u2019s green ratings as its top two. Neither of which Lancaster does particularly well in, but to be fair they are both admittedly dumb tables – what causes us to pause for thought is how the VC feels about some of the other \u2018dumb\u2019 rankings we\u2019ve received that have featured prominently in the University\u2019s marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obviously inspired by subtext\u2019s recent embracing of technology, the Vice Chancellor has decided to bring his particular badinage of vernacular to Twitter, and you can follow him at: twitter.com\/VCMarkESmith Amongst pictures of him mingling at conferences, praising speakers and announcing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[123,133,132,75],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-issue-169","tag-rankings","tag-twitter","tag-vc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-3o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1140,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/06\/28\/state-of-the-uni\/","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":0},"title":"STATE OF THE UNI","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 28 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A moderately populated Great Hall played host to the final all-staff meeting on Tuesday 25 June, led by Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark E Smith, CBE, before his imminent departure to southerly climes. 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