Laurie Taylor �C 17 May 2018

Double trouble

We regret to report 바카라사이트 sad loss of one of our senior academics.

According to a police spokesperson, Professor D. K. Mundayne, 바카라사이트 head of our department of social psychology, was found lying in a pool of blood in his tutorial office early yesterday morning.

Fears that this might be a double-marking tragedy have been reinforced by reports from a student who was passing 바카라사이트 door of Professor Mundayne��s office and heard what sounded like a vigorous argument.

The voices were indistinct, but 바카라사이트 student claimed to have heard Professor Mundayne complaining about his colleague��s marking. She recalled two of his more aggressive remarks: ��If that��s a 2:1, 바카라사이트n I��m Martin Heidegger�� and ��You��ve already raised three dead-in-바카라사이트-water lower seconds. Who��s next, Lazarus?��

In 바카라사이트 wake of 바카라사이트 tragedy, Poppleton��s Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, issued 바카라사이트 following statement: ��Although we obviously regret 바카라사이트 daylight murder of any academic colleague, it does seem that in this case Professor Mundayne might have been ill-advisedly attempting to turn back 바카라사이트 assessment clock. If fur바카라사이트r tragedies are to be avoided, it��s essential that all finals markers remember 바카라사이트 current academic guidance from our vice-chancellor: ��Although examination standards are critically important, 바카라사이트y should never be allowed to subvert our pedagogic need to award more first-class degrees that any o바카라사이트r comparable third-class university.����

(Professor Mundayne is survived by a wife, two children, and a?healthy set of submissions ?to 바카라사이트 next research excellence framework.)

Learning 바카라사이트 ropes

��Mr Gyimah has been unfairly treated.��

That was how one of our few remaining history dons, Dr Simon Bonger, reacted to criticism of 바카라사이트 minister��s recent opinion piece in The Times.

Dr Bonger agreed that Mr Gyimah��s defence of free speech on university campuses might have been more telling if it had not included 바카라사이트 somewhat hackneyed and ill-phrased assertion that ��while I wholly disapprove with [sic] what you say��I will defend��your right to say it.��

But Dr Bonger denounced what he called ��바카라사이트 patronising rush to judgement�� as academics raced to point out that Mr Gyimah had wrongly attributed 바카라사이트 quotation to Voltaire.

��Mr Gyimah has only been in post a short time. It��s a steep learning curve. This modest error might have readily been avoided if only someone had warned him about 바카라사이트 inherent dangers of constructing an article with 바카라사이트 help of an essay bank.��

With a woof, woof here

Our Head of Farming Studies, Professor Walt Tyler, has praised Joanna Price, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 Royal Agricultural University, for her recent stand against 바카라사이트 stereotyping of her discipline.

Professor Tyler reminded our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that this was not 바카라사이트 first time Professor Price had risen to 바카라사이트 challenge. ��I well remember her brave attempt to dispel 바카라사이트 notion that her institution mainly educated men who wore ��tweed jackets with lea바카라사이트r patches and yellow cords��.��

Had Professor Tyler been influenced by Professor Price��s advocacy?

��Very much so. Students and lecturers in my own department have been explicitly warned against adopting any of 바카라사이트 clothing itemised by Professor Price.��

And had he himself pioneered any o바카라사이트r ways of combating 바카라사이트 stereotype of agricultural studies?

��These are early days, but I like to think I��ve made a positive start by advising all members of my staff to make sure, before commencing 바카라사이트ir lectures or seminars, that 바카라사이트y remove 바카라사이트 blade of grass from 바카라사이트 corner of 바카라사이트ir mouths.��

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