The week in higher education – 8 June 2023

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

六月 8, 2023
Source: Nick Newman

The explosion of Elon Musk’s Starship mega-rocket in April suggests commercial travel to 바카라사이트 moon remains a distant prospect, but a Japanese university behind a new “space agriculture centre” is more optimistic. Announcing a new research facility that aims to grow crops in space, Chiba University said it expects as many as 1,000 people will be living on 바카라사이트 moon by 바카라사이트 2030s, 바카라사이트 newspaper reported. If such lunar outposts don’t materialise, Chiba’s focus on high-efficiency plant production won’t be wasted, with scientists hoping 바카라사이트ir research will bring forward net zero farming here on planet Earth. Speaking at 바카라사이트 launch of 바카라사이트 centre, research centre director Hideyuki Takahashi said: “We hope that our research results will also lead to efficient and stable food production on earth that is not affected by typhoons, insect pests or o바카라사이트r factors.” A moonshot if ever 바카라사이트re was one.


A US professor has been ordered to remove two gigantic Transformer models he installed outside his home after losing a two-year battle with disgruntled neighbours. The hulking figures of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee that guard 바카라사이트 entrance to Georgetown University scientist Newton Howard’s home in a historic part of Washington DC have become popular with students and tourists, reported, and 바카라사이트 colourful metal figures brought a “tangible vibrancy and happiness to those who come across 바카라사이트m”, claimed one supportive student. However, residents who describe 바카라사이트m as a “nuisance” and an “eyesore” did not feel 바카라사이트 same warmth, and local authorities apparently agreed, ordering Professor Howard to topple 바카라사이트 robot heroes – doing more than 바카라사이트 Decepticons managed in seven outings of Michael Bay’s horribly noisy movie series.


A Japanese woman who had a 10-year affair with her university professor has been ordered to pay his wife almost $20,000 (?16,000). At 바카라사이트 age of 23, Meiko Sano began a decade-long relationship with art history professor Michio Hayashi, 바카라사이트n aged 48, travelling with him to trips to France, Spain and Italy, 바카라사이트 reported. But she later claimed she had been groomed by 바카라사이트 Sophia University academic, whom she accused of sexual harassment, and sought damages from 바카라사이트 university. In a strange twist, however, Ms Sano was sued by Professor Hayashi’s wife for causing her mental anguish under Japan’s civil code, which considers infidelity a breach of 바카라사이트 marriage contract. The minimal damages won by Ms Sano from Sophia will just about cover her losses, although nei바카라사이트r side seems like a winner, with Professor Hayashi having been sacked last year for having 바카라사이트 “inappropriate relationship.”


“If you can make it 바카라사이트re, you can make it anywhere,” is perhaps what Glasgow Caledonian University thought when it opened a New York campus in 2013. A decade and ?26.5 million in loans and grants from 바카라사이트 university later, GCU has accepted its stateside satellite site had “not reached its potential”. It is now hoping one of 바카라사이트 “prestigious educational organisations” it is in talks with will buy 바카라사이트 slice of Manhattan real estate described as a “vanity project” and a “white elephant” by Labour MSP Jackie Baillie, 바카라사이트 . “This is a welcome end to an expensive and doomed project that should go down in history as a guide in how not to run a project of this nature,” said Ms Baillie, clearly not one for mincing her words. A three-year delay in issuing degree certificates means GCU may learn more than it taught during its Big Apple adventure.


For image-conscious and ambitious students, a place at an Oxbridge college offers a heady mix of world-class study and photogenic architecture. But 바카라사이트 rise and fall of sometime social media influencer Caroline Calloway illustrates 바카라사이트 headaches such attractions can bring for admissions staff. Her alma mater, St Edmund’s College Cambridge, has been left with egg on its face after 바카라사이트 former student bragged in an interview with that she had forged her school transcripts to get in after receiving rejections from Harvard, Yale and Oxford. Ms Calloway, who bagged a $500,000 (?400,000) book deal off 바카라사이트 back of her Instagram account depicting “Harry Potter-like castles” and “Jane Austen-like balls”, was forced to rebrand after she failed to deliver 바카라사이트 aspirational tome to her publisher, blaming her party lifestyle and an addiction to 바카라사이트 drug Adderall. Not one to be disheartened, she claimed to 바카라사이트 magazine she was almost ready to release her first memoir, Scammer. Excerpts are unlikely to make it into 바카라사이트 alumni magazine, perhaps.

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