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A year in the life of fighting cancer

By Nic Mitchell Posted in Cancer-talk, Uncategorized , blogger, bowel, cancer, chemo, chemotherapy, facebook, hernia, James Cook Hospital, Journalist, NHS, Social Media | Comments Off

As the New Year kicks into gear, I can’t pretend not to breathe a sigh of relief that 2015 is over. For it has been 12 months of fighting bowel cancer; handling the side effects of chemotherapy and getting over not one, but two operations. Still, I’ve come through it more of less intact […]

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Communications in the digital age: features are blogs and news is a tweet!

By Nic Mitchell Posted in Blog, Uncategorized , AppleMac, blogs, communications, computers, digital, English, EUPRIO, facebook, features, Internet, journalism, Kevan Lee, keyboards, length, news, opinion, posts, readers, RSI, spellchecker, storytelling, tweets, twitter, UNICA, University World News, Vilnius | 3 Comments »

I left mainstream newspaper journalism when I was just 35 after developing repetitive strain injury (RSI as it often called) – caused, ironically enough, when computers replaced typewriters in the newsroom and the necessary adjustments to office furniture were not made, nor any proper training given about how we were to use these new fangled […]

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WHY university international and communication departments need to work more closely together. See my blog talking from personal experience

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WE need to talk and cooperate more, says study of interaction between international and communication departments at five universities for EUPRIO. See my report for University World News

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WELCOME diversity in the university rankings. My blog here

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OPEN border universities are a 'powerful antidote' to inward-looking narrow nationalism, says co-leader of U-Multirank. More here

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EU students to be treated as UK 'home' students in 2020-21 and be eligible for financial support even if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal, says Minister

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WHY higher education communicators need to engage with their own staff & students to help build stronger brands. My EUPRIO blog for #EUPRIO2019

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GETTING the diet right after bowel cancer treatment. See my new Cancer-talk blog

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CAUTIOUS welcome to new global impact rankings based on universities' progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. See here

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COULD the Commonwealth act as the bridge to keep UK higher education and research 'international' after Brexit. See my report from #IHEF19

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UNIVERSITY boss admits he doesn't know anyone who voted for Brexit and that higher education "debates don't speak to the lives of many people'. See the blog