Professor Tanya Byron is the new Chancellor of my University :-D

[schneebly]

Pretty cool eh? Appartenly she wants to set up a website where all students can talk to her and ask questions etc. I think she is a fab choice.

shame they made her wera the stupid hat though

Urgh! Really?

not a fan?

I think that's rather good actually. Sends out all the right messages about education for women with kids. Plus chancellors don't actually do very much but in certain extreme circs students may need to appeal to her - good to have someone you can actually imagine feeling able to talk to, rather than, say, the Duke of Edinburgh.

That's exactly what I thought Kathy The University is predominantly Education/Health subject based so I thought she was a relevant choice too.

Nah not really - too media savvy for me

Yes she is but that should make good publicity for the university so a wise choice for them I think.

yeah prob i just hate the way the media is becoming such a dominant force and at the elite levels of learning now too...I appreciate she is highly qualified herself but it just sits a little uneasy with me

yes it is a fair point but as you said she is highly qualified herself and it is a reflection on modern society and the worship of 'celebs'. I will be very worried when 'savvy businesswoman' Katie Price is sworn in as Chancellor somewhere.

bloody hell yes i guess it will happen one day...eeeek

Ooh, I was very naughty at Edge Hill a long long time ago totally irrelevant, I know, just brought back memories!

Yes I know what you mean about the media/celeb worship thing.
However.... traditionally unis seem to have members of the royal family or superannuated politicans as chancellor, so I'm not sure having slebs is much worse, as long as they are intelligent slebs.
Though no doubt one day Jade Goody will be chancellor of a university .

Ooh helsy - tell me more!

My university experience has been a bit on the sedate side being a married mother of two and all!

One of our honourary somethingorothers is Eamon Holmes! And Nick Hancock!

ohh i did a MScat edgehill..lol