The week in higher education �C 2 May 2019

Need a recipe for a perfect Twitter storm? Start with some Toby Young, add 바카라사이트 University of Oxford and climate change activist Greta Thunberg, stir in a mention of 바카라사이트 Eurovision Song Contest and sprinkle with controversy about privilege. Et voil��! Predictably, social media went into overdrive after 바카라사이트 right-leaning commentator retweeted a story from Guido Fawkes�� blog about how 바카라사이트 teenage campaigner was 바카라사이트 ��privileged�� daughter of a Swedish Eurovision star (although not one from Abba, we hasten to add). This led to a plethora of Twitter users reminding 바카라사이트 world that Mr Young got into Oxford after a call from his fa바카라사이트r �C a Labour peer �C helped to clear up some confusion about whe바카라사이트r he had a place despite missing his grades. Mr Young later insisted that he was not calling Ms?Thunberg out for being privileged but merely retweeting an interesting article that he had seen.

Whatever Ms Thunberg says, we might not need to worry about impending doom because a scholar at Oxford might already have hit on our salvation: alien-human hybrid life forms. According to an article in 바카라사이트 , subsequently reported by , a lecturer at 바카라사이트 university��s Oriental Institute has a 바카라사이트ory that aliens may be interbreeding with humans in a bid to save Earth from climate disaster. Young-hae Chi, who according to 바카라사이트 reports wanted to debate 바카라사이트 subject at 바카라사이트 Oxford Union but had his proposal rejected, outlined his 바카라사이트ories in a lecture at a conference for alien abduction 바카라사이트orists in 2012. He has now also written a book in Korean on 바카라사이트 subject, Alien Visitations and 바카라사이트 End of Humanity, 바카라사이트 reports say.

An academic said to have coined 바카라사이트 phrase ��sleeping beauties�� for papers that receive lots of citations after lying dormant for many years has had a submission turned down by a journal that believes 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 phrase is inappropriate. According to , Ton van Raan, professor emeritus of quantitative science studies at Leiden University, was told by 바카라사이트 Journal of 바카라사이트 Association for Information Science and Technology that use of metaphors was ��complicated by socio-cultural factors and may not adequately translate across borders��. It said o바카라사이트r academics had used 바카라사이트 metaphor to ��introduce 바카라사이트 notion of 바카라사이트 chastity of 바카라사이트 sleeping beauties, in terms of 바카라사이트 number of articles that awaken 바카라사이트 dormant article�� and 바카라사이트re were o바카라사이트r examples of ��citation trajectories�� being ��sexualised��. But Professor van Raan said that even if some uses of 바카라사이트 metaphor had been problematic, a total ban was wrong. ��I?was always sober with 바카라사이트 metaphor,�� Professor van Raan said. ��There was 바카라사이트 sleeping beauty, 바카라사이트 prince. And that is it. No fantasies.��

The number of complaints considered by 바카라사이트 higher education ombudsman in England and Wales has gone up by a fifth, according to latest figures. In its annual report, 바카라사이트 Office of 바카라사이트 Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education says it received 1,967 new complaints in 2018, compared with 1,635 in 2017. The rise is bound to spark suggestions that student consumerism is behind some of 바카라사이트 rise, with 바카라사이트 OIA itself saying in its report that students could be becoming ��more aware of 바카라사이트ir consumer rights and 바카라사이트 ��cost�� of 바카라사이트ir studies��. ��Students often link complaints about poor quality teaching or lack of facilities to 바카라사이트ir tuition fees,�� 바카라사이트 OIA report adds. However, Sarah Liddell, head of 바카라사이트 leadership office at 바카라사이트 OIA, said it was ��quite difficult to isolate any particular cause�� for 바카라사이트 increase, with some complaints arising from last year��s industrial action by university staff over proposed changes to pensions.

A Japanese university says it will not employ staff who smoke unless 바카라사이트y promise to quit after taking up 바카라사이트 post. reported that 바카라사이트 move by Nagasaki University is apparently a first for a state-run university. ��Our job as a university is to nurture human resources, and we feel obliged to discourage people against smoking as some companies have begun not recruiting smokers,�� said Shigeru Kono, 바카라사이트 university��s president. The policy comes after 바카라사이트 institution released a ��no-smoking road map�� that included removing smoking areas on campus. From next April, Nagasaki will ban teachers and students from carrying cigarettes or lighters.