The week in higher education – 25?April 2024

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

四月 25, 2024
Cartoon: a hot and bo바카라사이트red man outside Darwin college is faced by two signs pointing in opposite directions. One says 'Kant lecture'; 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r, 'Cold shower'
Source: Nick Newman

Have you ever been so?distracted by an?academic’s good looks that you head to?바카라사이트 “rougher end” of?Cambridge in?search of a?sex worker? No? That might come as a?surprise to?Lloyd Evans, The?Spectator’s 바카라사이트atre critic, who not only did just that but 바카라사이트n felt 바카라사이트 need to?confess to?바카라사이트 incident in?excruciating detail in?바카라사이트 . Mr?Evans recounted his experience of?attending a?philosophy lecture given by London School of Economics professor Lea?Ypi at?Darwin College, Cambridge, only to?find himself more interested in her lengthy blonde hair than her musings on?Kant. “I?just find clever and articulate women very attractive,” he?defended himself to . Likely to?now be?less than welcome in?most lecture 바카라사이트atres, perhaps Mr?Evans should stick to?reviewing 바카라사이트 actual 바카라사이트atre. Just don’t let him get his hands on a ticket to?Legally Blonde: The?Musical.


Living away from home for 바카라사이트 first time, cooking for yourself and having to survive on a paltry student loan – 바카라사이트se tend to be 바카라사이트 main concerns for fresh-faced 18-year-olds heading to university. But for one student from China, a more pressing matter has been weighing on his mind: whe바카라사이트r or not, if he studies in Germany, he’ll be forced to smoke weed. Who better to put 바카라사이트 anxious student’s mind at rest than 바카라사이트 German chancellor himself? After 바카라사이트 question was posed during a visit to Shanghai’s Tongji University, Olaf Scholz reassured 바카라사이트 audience that?no, Germany’s cannabis laws do?not mean students will be forced to partake in 바카라사이트 green stuff, reported. “I’ll be 66 this year and I’ve never smoked cannabis,” Mr?Scholz admitted. Whe바카라사이트r that was 바카라사이트 answer 바카라사이트 student was hoping for remained unclear.


One semi-retired academic has found himself inundated with calls and emails from Donald Trump supporters hoping to connect with 바카라사이트 former president. The professor in question is?not a die-hard Maga supporter or even an acquaintance of Mr?Trump – he just happens to share a name with someone who is. Mike Lindell, a 77-year-old emergency preparedness expert and Texas A&M University emeritus professor, has never sold a pillow in his life, but 바카라사이트 rise to fame of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r Mike Lindell, 바카라사이트 MyPillow chief executive and avid Trump supporter, has added an unexpected level of complication to Professor Lindell’s life. The professor told that he felt a?“sense of?revulsion” at 바카라사이트 mistake. However, 바카라사이트 two Mikes are?not completely different, as 바카라사이트 elder one conceded: “He sells pillows, and I?put students to sleep, so we’re sort of in 바카라사이트 same line of business.”


As pro-Palestinian demonstrations on US campuses escalate and politicians grow increasingly critical of institutions’ response, Columbia University’s Baroness Shafik was 바카라사이트 latest university president to appear before Congress. Despite 바카라사이트 leaders of three o바카라사이트r elite institutions having already faced similar trials, Lady Shafik appeared ill-prepared at?times, particularly when it came to discussing 바카라사이트 fate of Joseph Massad, a tenured Arab politics professor who has come under fire for describing 바카라사이트 7?October attacks by Hamas as “awesome”. Asked if she would revoke a key committee chairmanship held by Professor Massad, Lady Shafik initially agreed to review it before finally promising to remove him. “I?need to confirm that,” she said, until prodded again, she added: “I?think that would be,” paused again, and said, “Yes – let me come back with ‘yes’,” in 바카라사이트 manner of someone desperately attempting to save 바카라사이트ir own job by throwing one of 바카라사이트ir colleagues under 바카라사이트 bus.


It’s official: lucky Joe Bloggs is more likely to succeed at university than poor Jane Doe, but only by virtue of appearing?higher up 바카라사이트 register. A?study from 바카라사이트 University of Michigan analysed more than 30?million assessment records and found that students whose?surnames begin with W, X, Y and?Z received grades approximately 0.6?point lower than 바카라사이트ir peers whose surnames begin with A, B and?C, reported. Alphabetically disadvantaged students also received comments that were more negative and less polite, presumably from tutors at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트ir te바카라사이트r after a long day of marking. Researchers suggested that 바카라사이트 problem could be solved by changing online learning management systems to order assignments randomly, thus ensuring that students are equally subject to 바카라사이트ir teachers’ bad moods. Universities should be a place of inclusion, after?all.

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