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Hi all, A reminder about the East Midlands RSS local group meeting in Leicester on Thursday evening, featuring George Leckie (Bristol) addressing the merits and drawbacks of various metrics used to assess schools, including the ubiquitous School League Tables. RSS members and non-members all welcome. If you plan on coming please RSVP so we can order the right amount of tea/coffee here: <http://tinyurl.com/rssemlg5>. Further details below. Dave -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Talk: RSS East Mids local group 3rd March Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:51:40 +0000 From: David Sirl <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Hi all, The East Midlands Local group of the Royal Statistical Society will next meet on Thu 3rd March in Leicester. The guest speaker will be George Leckie (Bristol) who will address the merits and drawbacks of various metrics used to assess schools, including the ubiquitous School League Tables. The talk will be broadly accessible and the meeting is open to all (RSS members and non-members alike). It will be at the University of Leicester on Thu 3rd March at 5:45pm, with tea/coffee available from 5:30pm. For catering purposes please RSVP at <http://tinyurl.com/rssemlg5>. Further details (including title, abstract and travel advice) are available at <https://sites.google.com/site/rssemlg/home>. Please pass this information on to any people or mailing lists to whom it might be of interest; and if anyone wants to ask questions of an organiser, I am the person to contact: <[log in to unmask]>. Best wishes, Dave -- David Sirl RSS East Midlands Local Group Secretary (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham) <https://sites.google.com/site/rssemlg/home> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.