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One of 바카라사이트 more eye-catching higher education headlines of recent years could be found in on 23?August: “Professor swaps wife for octopus.” The story focused on David Scheel, professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University, who spent a year living with an octopus after his divorce – an experience that was charted in a BBC documentary, . Professor Scheel found that Heidi, a big blue octopus, offered more than an eight-armed embrace, explaining: “We had a nice routine. I’d sit down to do my email next to 바카라사이트 aquarium. She would do her morning grooming.” The octopus learned to set off a buzzer to summon her human partner, and she even joined family television sessions with Laurel, Professor Scheel’s teenage daughter. “Laurel maintained Heidi liked comedies 바카라사이트 best, but Blue Planet?II has to be right up 바카라사이트re,” 바카라사이트 newspaper quoted Professor Scheel as saying.
When it came to seeing higher education’s brightest and best on screen, University Challenge used to be 바카라사이트 place to go. But – Professor Scheel’s escapades aside – it seems that The Great British Bake Off might be a good bet, too. Hot from 바카라사이트 success of University of Sheffield research scientist Rahul Mandal in last year’s contest, this year’s competition – which started airing on 27?August – features Harry Bird, a 20-year-old English literature student at Durham University. Mr?Bird told 바카라사이트 website that he had been trying out his cakes, pastries and patisseries on housemates at Collingwood College. Asked about one of his creations, inspired by a happy memory of a university party, Mr Bird proved that he had time for more traditional student pursuits, too. “It would be quite a busy, chaotic cake flavoured with alcohol to represent 바카라사이트 party, so perhaps a Kahlúa coffee drizzle and vodka buttercream icing,” he said.
The saga of 바카라사이트 dean of Christ Church, Oxford, seems to have been running for almost as long as Brexit. The Very Rev Martyn Percy was suspended last September, charged with “immoral, scandalous or disgraceful” conduct, but has now been reinstated by a tribunal, reported. The charge had led to suggestions that Dr Percy had been accused of bullying, but it later emerged that he had simply requested a pay rise, with friends suggesting that his reputation as a moderniser might have made him enemies. With 바카라사이트 investigation having lasted nearly a year and cost Christ Church more than ?500,000, it is now 바카라사이트 college’s turn to face criticism. The Rev Robin Gibbons, a canon at Christ Church, told The Times that 바카라사이트 college’s sluggishness in clarifying 바카라사이트 nature of 바카라사이트 complaints amounted to “calumny by omission” and that he was “appalled at 바카라사이트 way [Dr Percy’s] name had been dragged through 바카라사이트 mud”.
One institution taking steps to atone for its past actions is 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, which has committed to raising and spending ?20?million to make amends for how it historically benefited from 바카라사이트 slave trade. The funds will be used to create a centre for development research, being set up jointly with 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 West Indies. The move follows 바카라사이트 publication of a report earlier this year that found that Glasgow had received gifts from several individuals connected to 바카라사이트 slave trade during 바카라사이트 18th and 19th centuries, with an estimated modern value of between ?16.8?million and ?198?million. “Talking about any institution’s or country’s historical links to slavery can be a difficult conversation,” said Sir Anton Muscatelli, Glasgow’s principal, “but we felt it was a necessary one for our university to have. I?am reminded of 바카라사이트 words of Sir Geoff Palmer, one of our report’s external advisers, who often says while you can’t change 바카라사이트 past, you can change its consequences.”
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