“We are generally remembered most fondly not for being good,
but for doing good.”
via Dr Mardy
The Monday Morning Quote #457
BPP shuts dental course as regulator raises safety concerns – Laurie Taylor’s take.
Students on course forced to find alternative programmes, as government plans to open English sector further to new providers.
First, the truth:
BPP University has shut a dentistry course after it failed to meet General Dental Council standards, leaving new students unable to start and existing undergraduates facing an uncertain future.
Events at BPP, which is owned by a for-profit private equity group, come as the government prepares to open the English sector further to new providers by allowing them to award degrees from the start of their operations on a probationary basis. Critics warn that if new providers subsequently fail, or do not gain full degree-awarding powers, it could mean more students being left unable to complete their courses.
The mess we’re in – full story…via THE
and now: The Spoof
Laurie Taylor’s take – 12 October 2017
Pull the other one!
“One only hopes it doesn’t prompt an outbreak of bad dentistry jokes.”
That was the reaction of Poppleton’s own Head of Dentistry, Professor Phil McCavity, to the news that BPP University, which is owned by a for-profit private equity group, had shut down a dentistry course after it failed to meet General Dental Council standards.
Professor McCavity told ThePoppletonian that he had already encountered one report of the closure that was headlined “Painful cavity as BPP pulls course”.
Such glib recourse to puns threatened to obscure the emotional issues raised by the closure. “It’s important to remember”, said Professor McCavity, “that dentists also have fillings.”
He hoped that the BPP tutors would not feel too down in the mouth about the closure and would brace themselves for the challenges that lay ahead.
A spokesperson for BPP said that he was “bewildered” by the sudden closure. “As a for-profit provider, we’ve been happily making successful extractions from public funds for many years.”
(On other pages: Buddhism and Dentistry: how a belief in a higher power might allow one to transcend dental medication.)
The Incisal Edge Podcast – Public Relations for Dentists with Chris Baker
In their second conversation in the pod, Alun and Chris Baker from Corona Design & Communications talk about the best way to use local Public Relations to promote your Dental Practice.
The Monday Morning Quote #456
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
Screwing people as the social norm
“Whenever a company decides it’s ok to screw its suppliers, its customers, or its employees, it is only a matter of time until it gets around to screwing all 3 groups. That is because the idea that screwing people is ok becomes the corporate mindset.”
Comment by Howard on I, Cringely
via reestheskin
The Incisal Edge Podcast – Email marketing for dentists with Chris Baker.
In the first of a series of Podcast conversations about PR and Marketing for Dentists, Alun is joined by Chris Baker from Corona Design and Communications.
Their first topic is Email marketing.
The Monday Morning Quote #455
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
Word of the day – Mediocracy & a video to match….
MEANING: noun: Rule by the mediocre.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of mediocre + -ocracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1845.
USAGE: “Why are gifted individuals always forced out by the mediocracy?” Christopher Fowler; The Victoria Vanishes; Bantam; 2008.
IDEAS:
(I notice that comments are now disabled for the video, a shame because I would like to see if there was anybody who had anything positive to say.)
It reminds me of this:
The Monday Morning Quote #454
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, no one is entitled to his own facts.”
(via Michael Bungay Stanier)
The Incisal Edge 