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Having said all that, the nespresso sales stand in a local city centre shopping arcade seems to always have people there...
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/foundation-dept/foundation-path...
The fees they are charging tend to suggest that the University is not claiming skills funding agency money for this foundation course. In the UK further education colleges work at a level below universities and what we call 'level 3' qualifications (e.g. A levels, BTEC National Diploma &c) are needed to enter most university courses. Universities can offer their own foundation courses - a foundation year is common in the fine art field.
But also some projects not so much clear reason - demolishing functional libraries and replacing them with buildings that have fewer seats &c (although disabled access could have been an issue in one case).
The biggie is large scale speculative development of student residences. That bubble is going to have to burst soon...
Everything got recorded in an online system - the training teachers did their reflective writing &c and I read their blog posts (private blogs!) and tried to support. Managers at the University (relevant ones) could access the blogs and help out with any more serious issues. I had direct contact with the mentors as well in case they had issues to discuss.
Probably the hardest teaching job I did in a 30 year career. But almost all of the training teachers are working in local colleges and schools.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jan/08/pay-per-minut...
London: https://london.ziferblat.net/
Manchester: https://www.ziferblat.co.uk/
8p/min = £4.80 per hour. Bearing in mind I'd pay £5 for coffee and a cake in many places that seems reasonable.
UK: many public access spaces have places to sit and public wifi (e.g. central reference library, University buildings, some City Council buildings &c)
Calder Hall fire 1957: I was in the womb 100 miles downwind at that time and have reasons to be grateful for 'Cockroft's folly' [1]
Windscale Enquiry 1978: I was 20 then and THORP was bitterly opposed by environmental organisations, the Manx government and quite a few engineers, the latter on the grounds that it would never be viable [2, 3]
Nuclear power, especially with reactors that require heavily enriched fuel, in a small densely populated country, is always going to be problematic.
[1] https://www.khl.com/news/final-cockcroft-folly-is-demolished...
[2] http://www.worldcat.orgwww.worldcat.org/title/windscale-inqu...
[3] https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1978/mar/...
Some medium-rise blocks of flats use steel frame floor plates from concrete central pillars with external cladding approach but most new houses are brick.
'Moral Hazard' is something I have reservations about.
YouGov poll on labour voters would suggest caution on Mr Corbyn's part.
I voted remain mainly because I could not see how UK could dis-engage from local markets and just-in-time processes without significant turbulence. Corbyn gave EU 6.5/10 marks, I personally would score around 5.5/10 or 6/10 mainly because of the treatment of Greece.
Basically, like on Slackware when you misconfigure something, 'stormy weather ahead'
OA has an example of the new wifi autofind feature which I need to bottom out.
There is a new coffee shop in the Digbeth area of Birmingham UK that appears to be family run and independent. I shall keep an eye on how they are going. Already there is a '10% student discount' sign on the window in felt-tipped pen (Birmingham City University have their Steamhouse project nearby).
Lets face it we tend to do those things through Web interfaces on desktop/laptops or in messaging style apps on phones that tend to look quite similar in layout.
And we need to be clear about the time frame as other posters have mentioned (per day or per week)
On the work based figures, I suspect that people include the time spent on a task generated by the email as 'doing email'. My colleagues certainly would, and a lot of the work related email we get is providing information directly into a rich format email.
Might also be fun to show various end user activities using KDE Plasma 5 oriented software (photos with digiKAM, music management, audio applications &c) and if they have got the desktop indexing and search sorted out yet.
Perhaps you will be able to sleep easier when the Raspberry Pi' generation come of age? I recollect that small business people built applications with Hypercard a few decades ago.
https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard-forgotten-but-not-go...
I shall steal this quote. The humble spreadsheet is just about the only 'programmable' application left on the typical corporate endpoint/educational client PC.