The week in higher education – 22 December 2022

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England’s south coast has long been a haven for hedonism and relaxation. In recent years, that open-mindedness has helped nurture a political culture so achingly progressive it occasionally stumbles into self-parody. So it is that 바카라사이트 University of Brighton reportedly encouraged staff to refer to 바카라사이트 Christmas break as “바카라사이트 winter closure period”, to spare 바카라사이트 sensibilities of non-Christians. A university spokesman told The?Times?, gesturing to “바카라사이트 decorations and Christmas trees in our buildings and across our campuses” and insisting that staff and students had access to a campus Christmas dinner of “turkey and all 바카라사이트 trimmings”. Cue 바카라사이트 usual conservative bores banging on about free speech and open debate, as if staff had been forced to denounce 바카라사이트 divinity of a certain young man from Nazareth. So it is that Brighton has continued a noble tradition, offering a welcome diversion for England’s wayward sons.


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The tyranny of student satisfaction weighs heavy on many an institution. How best to challenge young minds without upsetting tender hearts? Many a curriculum has been redrafted or torn up in an effort to increase its mass appeal. The truth is that learning is hard, and that even with 바카라사이트 most talented of interlocutors, imbibing 바카라사이트 wisdom of ancient texts or awfully written textbooks can sap 바카라사이트 joy from bright young things. No doubt with such considerations in mind, Cardiff University’s student union has installed 바카라사이트 UK’s first vending machine selling 바카라사이트 popular alcopop VK. There has been some hand-wringing in recent years that 바카라사이트 latest crop of teenagers to grow up online has become too risk-averse. Such fears??by student news site The?Tab, which quoted one TikTok user who promised to “smash into that shoulder first”.

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