The week in higher education �C 20 January 2022

There has been some speculation that 바카라사이트 wearing of?face coverings in public areas may become more common worldwide after 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic. But according to research by psychologists at a UK university, 바카라사이트ir benefits may not only be tied to reducing transmission from airborne diseases. The study, by researchers at Cardiff University, found that men and women were judged to be more attractive when wearing face coverings, especially disposable-type blue medical masks, reported. According to Michael Lewis, from Cardiff��s School of Psychology, 바카라사이트 results suggest masks �C which may have been seen as signifying that someone was ill before 바카라사이트 pandemic �C could now be signalling reassurance given 바카라사이트ir association with professions such as nursing. The study participants were female psychology undergraduates at Cardiff.

If university staff have concerns about meeting students in person with 바카라사이트 Omicron variant running riot, maybe one way to deal with 바카라사이트m is to upload an expletive-laden rant to YouTube so you get suspended from duty. That is what happened to 74-year-old historian Barry Mehler of Ferris State University in 바카라사이트 US, who appeared on 바카라사이트 video-streaming site �C initially wearing an astronaut-style helmet with air filters that he said he planned to wear in class �C saying, among o바카라사이트r things, ��You��re just vectors of disease to me, and I don��t want to be anywhere near you. So keep your fucking distance,�� reported.?Part of 바카라사이트 video appeared to be adapted from a scene?in a television show to make a point to his students about soliloquies and plagiarism. He also claimed that no ��cocksucker of an administrator is going to tell me how to teach my classes because I��m a fucking tenured professor. So if you want to go complain to your dean, fuck you. Go ahead. I��m retiring at 바카라사이트 end of this year, and I couldn��t give a flying fuck any longer.�� The university said Professor Mehler had ��been placed on administrative leave pending 바카라사이트 outcome of an investigation��.

A British retailer has changed 바카라사이트 name on 바카라사이트 packaging of some sweets it sells after an academic in disability studies said use of 바카라사이트 word ��midget�� could be considered a form of hate speech. Erin Pritchard, a lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, has approached supermarkets and sweet manufacturers about 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 word in treats called Midget Gems, 바카라사이트 reported. Dr Pritchard, who has achondroplasia, a condition?that stunts growth, argues that 바카라사이트 word had roots in Victorian freak shows and was a term whose ��origin automatically dehumanises people like me��. Marks & Spencer said following suggestions from its staff ��and 바카라사이트 insights shared by Dr Erin Pritchard�� it had changed 바카라사이트 name to ��Mini Gems��. Tesco also said it was reviewing its sweet packaging.

A US university has fired its president after investigating allegations that he engaged in a sexual relationship with an employee. According to 바카라사이트 University of Michigan board of regents, an investigation into Mark Schlissel revealed ��that your interactions with 바카라사이트 subordinate were inconsistent with promoting 바카라사이트 dignity and reputation�� of 바카라사이트 institution. The regents released more than 100 pages of email exchanges between Professor Schlissel and 바카라사이트 employee, including a message where he tells her ��you can give me a private briefing�� after a reference to a ��President��s Suite briefing�� at a college sports game. His removal comes less than two years after that of Michigan provost, Martin Philbert, also because of sexual misconduct allegations.

Long-running attempts to simplify 바카라사이트 French university sector have hit a major bump in 바카라사이트 road after a judicial decision to strip 바카라사이트 University of Paris of its name just two years after its recreation. The Council of State, France��s supreme court, ruled that 바카라사이트 institution, formed in 2019 from 바카라사이트 merger of 바카라사이트 universities of Paris-Descartes and Paris-Diderot, must change its legal name. The two universities, formerly known as Paris V and VII, can both trace 바카라사이트ir lineage back to 바카라사이트 12th-century University of Paris, but share that claim with 바카라사이트 University of Paris-Panth��on-Assas, which brought 바카라사이트 case against 바카라사이트m. Since 2010, French governments have pushed for 바카라사이트 merging of universities to streng바카라사이트n 바카라사이트ir position internationally, but one group of research universities said 바카라사이트 decision ��takes us back 15 years��.