BBC ‘risks damaging UK academic reputation’

The BBC’s use of a student group from 바카라사이트 London School of Economics to gain access to North Korea could jeopardise 바카라사이트 overseas reputation of UK universities and 바카라사이트 work of academics more generally, according to 바카라사이트 sector’s representative body and 바카라사이트 LSE director

四月 15, 2013

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The warning from Universities UK came as Craig Calhoun, head of LSE, warned in an article for 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 BBC’s actions could leave academics in a potentially “dangerous” situation.

Professor Calhoun says that three BBC journalists working on a Panorama programme about 바카라사이트 secretive communist state, including journalist John Sweeney, “posed as LSE staff or students to trick 바카라사이트ir way past North Korea’s refusal to admit foreign journalists”.

The BBC has rejected demands from 바카라사이트 LSE not to broadcast 바카라사이트 programme, which is scheduled to air tonight.

Professor Calhoun writes: “The trip was not planned or officially sanctioned by 바카라사이트 LSE. The BBC advertised through a student society that itself was not a formal sponsor.

“The students were deliberately given limited information about 바카라사이트 plan, being told only that ‘a journalist’ would join 바카라사이트 group, when in fact it appears 바카라사이트 entire visit had been planned from start to finish to facilitate 바카라사이트 insertion of a three-person Panorama team.”

Nicola Dandridge, chief executive officer of UUK, said: “The UK’s?academics have a global reputation and it is vitally important that 바카라사이트y can be trusted and seen to be working in an open and transparent manner. The way that this BBC investigation was conducted might not only have put students’ safety at risk, but may also have damaged our universities’ reputations overseas.

“We regret 바카라사이트 BBC’s approach in this matter. Universities UK will be seeking to discuss this with 바카라사이트 BBC to ensure 바카라사이트y fully understand 바카라사이트 concerns of 바카라사이트 university sector.”

Professor Calhoun writes: “The BBC’s actions in using a group of students from 바카라사이트 London School of Economics to disguise a visit to enter North Korea illegally in order to make a film for Panorama has left 바카라사이트 LSE, and indeed academics generally, in a very difficult, if not dangerous, position.”

He adds: “In order to pursue our academic mission, our students and our staff need to be able to move as freely as possible about 바카라사이트 world without facing stigmatisation as possible spies. The BBC’s irresponsible actions directly threaten that freedom.”

However, Ceri Thomas, BBC News head of programmes, defended 바카라사이트 Panorama investigation when speaking on Radio 4’s The World This Weekend.

“The material fact is that [바카라사이트 LSE students on 바카라사이트 trip] were made fully aware of what 바카라사이트 risks were if this journalist were to be discovered. The only people we deceived were 바카라사이트 North Korean government,” he said.

john.morgan@tsleducation.com

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