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Cornersteady
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edited January 2017 in General Chat #1

For those of you who are retired:

 

There are only three days left to apply for what many might consider a dream job.

The University of Cambridge is looking for a Professor of Lego, and you'd better be quick if you want to apply, because the deadline is Friday.

The job essentially involves studying the importance of play and playfulness in education globally.

The successful candidate will be paid somewhere around £84,000, the average salary earned by Cambridge professors.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38656481/university-of-cambridge-is-recruiting-a-professor-of-lego

 

I'll be off line for a while filling in the application form.

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  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,859 ✭✭✭
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    edited January 2017 #2

    Or do you have to construct the application formwink

    David

  • Kennine
    Kennine Forum Participant Posts: 3,472
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    edited January 2017 #3

    Aye, but the successful applicant will have to give a full day's work commitment  - No easy part time hours there. wink  

    Cheers.......................K

  • Rubytuesday
    Rubytuesday Forum Participant Posts: 952
    edited January 2017 #4

    Sounds just up my street , I wonder if you would be allowed out of uni study breaks. So I could be off to some exotic holiday destition sit on the sand in the sun by the sea  !! and study all children playing laughing 

  • redface
    redface Forum Participant Posts: 1,701
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    edited January 2017 #5

    If I had to study thousands of children playing, I would be bricking it!

    As it is Santa was asked this year,by a 7yr old, for a machine gun so the kid could go out and shoot people dead, 'just like on the news.'

     

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,426 ✭✭✭
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    edited January 2017 #6

    right children, today we are going to build a full size caravan out of lego.

    Yes that's a good idea Tarquin, we should spend a few weeks on a club site seeing the real thing

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,426 ✭✭✭
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    edited January 2017 #7

    well its says on the job description:

      to provide up to four hours' undergraduate supervision per week during full term

    I like the up to four hours. 

  • volvoman9
    volvoman9 Forum Participant Posts: 1,053
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    edited January 2017 #8

    I was going too apply but i,ve lost the instructions frown

    Mind you it sounds like the sort of career you could build on smile

    v9

     

  • Kennine
    Kennine Forum Participant Posts: 3,472
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    edited January 2017 #9

      the job description specifies you must have an "outstanding research record of international stature and the vision, leadership, experience and enthusiasm".

    That rules out anybody on this forum. smilewink

     

    Cheers...................K

  • huskydog
    huskydog Club Member Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited January 2017 #10

    You mean ,you can't teach an old dog new tricks???surprised

  • tombar
    tombar Forum Participant Posts: 408
    edited January 2017 #11

    Have spent 10+ years studying this type of job, both in theory and practice.  So I think that I'm qualifiedwink

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