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Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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  1. dennisboothstash

    dennisboothstash Well-Known Member

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    The company had places in Manchester and Leeds that they’ve also closed.
    Already someone else locally based looking to reopen it and talking about interviewing the existing staff
     
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  2. Edelman

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    I must say Humber street is pretty empty most of the time !
    I thought it was going to be a lot more busy than it is !
     
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  3. tigerscanada

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    Buried under a parking lot ? The trendy thing way-back-when :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  4. originallambrettaman

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    Another ugly building replacing somewhere that was once iconic to a lot of us.
     
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  6. Is Vic there?

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    It certainly was. I had my first "Town" pint in New York when I was fifteen, casuals on one side and punks on the other with no bother.

    Great days.
     
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  7. newlandcasual

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    Same as me then, my 1st regular town pub at the same age,...i flirted between both groups bitd, was a bit of bother once when NB r.i.p and a few others jumped some punks at the back of station, i walked into them straight afterwards but i always tended to get a pass as i was well known for going to watch city regularly at a time not many did.
     
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  8. originallambrettaman

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    New York was my local for a while in the late 70's, I was one of the punk pool gang.
     
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    Ripped swimming trunks, tartan towels and safety pins in your flip flops?
     
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  13. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    University of Hull beats Oxbridge in equality ranking
    When it comes to equal access for poorer students less prestigious universities beat elite institutions, suggests new analysis.

    Calculations for the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) put Hull Universitytop for admitting a balanced intake of rich and poor students.

    Institutions like Cambridge, St Andrews, Bristol and Oxford were placed near the bottom of the table.

    Cambridge welcomed "different interpretations of the data".

    However, a spokesman for the university pointed out that the HEPI analysis relies on a single measure, adding "widening participation in higher education is a complex issue".

    Last year the charity Teach First compared official child poverty figures with university participation rates and found young people in some of the wealthiest areas of England were 18 times more likely to go to university than those in the poorest.

    Another analysis showed four fifths of students accepted at Oxford and Cambridge between 2010 and 2015 had parents in top professional and managerial jobs.

    Neighbourhood chances
    Each year, admissions figures, known as Participation of Local Areas (Polar), divide neighbourhoods into five groups, according to the proportion of young people going to university.

    In a perfect world each university would take a fifth of its students from each group, says HEPI.

    For this study, statisticians used the 2016 Polar data to rank each of the UK's 132 universities in terms of how near they came to this target.

    The resulting table turns the usual university rankings upside down.

    Top 10 universities for class equality
    • Hull
    • Derby
    • Edge Hill
    • Chester
    • Plymouth College of Art
    • York St John
    • Leeds Beckett
    • Worcester
    • Anglia Ruskin
    • Cardiff Metropolitan
    Bottom 10 universities for class equality
    • Cambridge
    • St Andrews
    • Bristol
    • Oxford
    • Aberdeen
    • Edinburgh
    • UCL
    • Durham
    • Robert Gordon
    • LSE
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    Prof Iain Martin, report author and Anglia Ruskin vice-chancellor, said that despite ongoing efforts to boost equal access to higher education: "We do not have an educational level playing field."

    Nick Hillman, director of HEPI, added: "This analysis reveals which universities reflect our society best and those which have further to travel."

    He said learning outcomes were better when students from diverse backgrounds studied alongside each other.

    "The best way to deliver fairer access to selective institutions is the same as the best way to deliver widening participation overall, which is to provide more places," he added.

    Cambridge University said the Polar data takes no account of household income or access to education and "effectively assumes that people living on the same street have the same likelihood of entering higher education as their neighbours".

    The spokesman said Cambridge:

    • Runs outreach programmes across the UK to raise aspirations among under-represented and disadvantaged groups
    • Uses multiple measures to assess every applicant's educational and socio-economic background
    • In 2017 had the highest level (63%) of state school applicants for 35 years and over 20% of students describe themselves as being from an ethnic minority.
    A spokesman for the Russell Group, which represents several institutions near the bottom of the table, said members were "fully committed to encouraging students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and succeed in higher education".




    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43643939
     
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    Oxbridge in 'class inequality' shocker.
     
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    Who would have ever thought Ehh!?
     
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    Rah rah rah, we're going to smash the oiks...
     
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    Rarthuur old boy !
     
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    My daughter used to work at the Leeds one. They've been on the verge of closing down for months. Thankfully she found new employment at the start of the year.
     
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    I can think of a few off my council estate who went to Oxford, and Cambridge, in the days when you had to have better grades than nowadays.
     
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  20. dennisboothstash

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    Early 80’s for me
     
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