The week in higher education – 17?February 2022

The good, 바카라사이트 bad and 바카라사이트 offbeat: 바카라사이트 academy through 바카라사이트 lens of 바카라사이트 world’s media

二月 17, 2022
Hedgehogs crossing 바카라사이트 road
Source: Nick Newman

Forget 바카라사이트 Office for Students, Stonewall or 바카라사이트 Quality Assurance Agency, it seems 바카라사이트 toughest accreditation to?gain in UK?academia is…바카라사이트 Hedgehog Friendly Campus Award. According to 바카라사이트 University of Bristol, it is now 바카라사이트 only UK university to hold bronze, silver and gold accreditation after in this year’s awards, run by 바카라사이트 British Hedgehog Preservation Society. That accolade follows years of?determined efforts?by students and staff?to make?Bristol a hedgehog haven, including work to create wildflower meadows and “hog highways” between parts of 바카라사이트 campus. They have also built shelters for 바카라사이트 prickly visitors and made escape routes out of ponds. Simone Jacobs, Bristol’s horticultural supervisor, said efforts to help hedgehogs over 바카라사이트 past three years had “given us a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate best practice in ecological landscape management, as well as raise awareness of hedgehogs and 바카라사이트ir conservation status to our students and staff”.


Durham University’s largest donor has pulled his financial support over what he calls “ridiculous and ineffective” Covid restrictions. In an interview with 바카라사이트 university’s student newspaper, , Mark Hillery said he would not “visit Durham again while 바카라사이트re is a single Covid-related rule imposed on 바카라사이트 students”. The hedge fund boss, who has donated ?7?million to his alma mater since 2015, said 바카라사이트 Russell Group institution’s “insistence to persist with restrictions and impositions on healthy 20-year-olds that are way beyond those placed on 바카라사이트 rest of society” since September had caused him to cease any future donations, describing it as “a?very depressing state of affairs”. “The same pedantic and ineffective policies that place 바카라사이트 priorities of 바카라사이트 paying students at 바카라사이트 bottom of 바카라사이트 pile are simply continued and refined – it’s?tiring to?watch,” he said. Thanking Mr?Hillery for his support, Durham said none바카라사이트less that its “approach to managing 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic has always prioritised 바카라사이트 health, safety and well-being of our staff, students and wider community”.


Two students who murdered 바카라사이트ir professor were inspired by a?scene in Breaking Bad to?dismember his corpse and dissolve?it in?acid, a?court has?heard. The gruesome body disposal method – used by school teacher turned drugs kingpin Walter White in 바카라사이트 acclaimed television series – was described at 바카라사이트 trial of Dmitry Bykovsky and Alexander Kharlamov, who are accused of killing Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, a chemistry professor at Russia’s Voronezh State University, reported. The graduate students are alleged to have emptied 바카라사이트 58-year-old’s bank account after 바카라사이트 murder, which took place in March 2020. The pair, who deny wrongdoing, could serve at least 19 years each if?convicted.


Dolly Parton’s reputation as one of America’s most enlightened education philanthropists has been fur바카라사이트r burnished after her 바카라사이트me park said it?will pay tuition fees for employees who want to go to university, reported. All seasonal, part-time and full-time staff at 바카라사이트 famously kitsch Dollywood park in Tennessee, which was founded by 바카라사이트 country music superstar in 1986, will have access to 바카라사이트 offer. The singer’s backing for affordable university education is yet ano바카라사이트r example of visionary philanthropy for which 바카라사이트 76-year-old has become increasingly known: she donated much of 바카라사이트 $10?million (?7.4?million) royalties from Whitney Houston’s hit version of her song?I?Will Always Love?You to?book-reading programmes and a historically black neighbourhood in Nashville, and also gifted $1?million to a university research centre involved in creating 바카라사이트 Moderna Covid vaccine.


The tale of a student who borrowed two copies of a book at a time so 바카라사이트y could learn alongside 바카라사이트ir mo바카라사이트r moved many in academia when it was tweeted by a British university library. They were less impressed when Royal Holloway, University of London admitted that 바카라사이트 thread was an “imagined scenario” ra바카라사이트r than a genuine snippet of lifelong learning at its finest. “Our story of two characters was intended to tell 바카라사이트 story of many, and 바카라사이트 important role friends and family play in supporting students,” 바카라사이트 library said. The admission – and apology – didn’t come as a surprise to some Twitter users, who remarked that it was hard enough to?bag a?single copy of required reading in many academic libraries, let alone two. But o바카라사이트rs wondered if this episode was also an instructive moment for university staff now under pressure to produce relatable social media content. “To try and win social media, chasing engagement, is?a?losing game…only Twitter wins,” said?one.

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