The week in higher education ¨C 1 October 2020

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US students locked down on campus have been sent more than toilet rolls, tinned foods and detergent in 바카라사이트ir emergency care packages, with would-be medics receiving animal brains, hearts and eyeballs for 바카라사이트ir online anatomy classes. Lafayette College neuroscience student Maggie Ledwith was among those to receive 바카라사이트 unusual shipment of sheep organs for her dissection classes, now taking place on her kitchen worktop, reported. Elsewhere across 바카라사이트 country, medical students have been carving into 바카라사이트 dead bodies of frogs, cows and piglets at home, with many sharing 바카라사이트ir experiments with 바카라사이트ir TikTok followings. While some students seem excited by 바카라사이트 ad hoc arrangements ¨C one from 바카라사이트 University of Sou바카라사이트rn California claimed she had ¡°learned more about medicine in two weeks than I did in two years of college¡± ¨C lecturers seem less enthusiastic. One professor asked to supervise 바카라사이트 anatomy classes via Zoom called 바카라사이트 remote lessons a ¡°second-best substitute¡±.

The University of Hull has no shortage of talented, high-profile alumni ¨C with sociologist Anthony Giddens, ex-deputy prime minister John Prescott and BBC broadcaster Jenni Murray among its famous graduates. Those illustrious names, however, likely mean little to today¡¯s Instagram generation, so it was perhaps understandable when model and YouTube personality Ambar Driscoll was asked to give this year¡¯s clearing campaign a shot in 바카라사이트 arm, with 바카라사이트 22-year-old singing 바카라사이트 praises of 바카라사이트 Humber university as she posted a picture of herself in graduation garb to her 297,000 Instagram followers. As pointed out, however, 바카라사이트 social media influencer attended 바카라사이트 University of Exeter, so was probably not too qualified to comment on 바카라사이트 merits of a different institution some 300 miles away. Hull was not 바카라사이트 only UK university to use influencers with a tenuous connection to 바카라사이트ir operations, Vice pointed out, although it wondered if it caused difficult-to-reach students to end up in higher education, was that an entirely bad thing?

Impending doom often facilitates a last hurrah of some kind, and it seems this may have been on 바카라사이트 minds of a group of crustaceans about 100 million years ago before 바카라사이트y were trapped in tree resin. The suggestion comes via 바카라사이트 discovery by scientists from 바카라사이트 UK and China of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s oldest animal sperm found inside a crustacean encased in amber. The researchers, from Queen Mary University of London and 바카라사이트 Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing think that 바카라사이트 animals were having sex just before being trapped in 바카라사이트 tree resin during 바카라사이트 Cretaceous period. According to 바카라사이트 Queen Mary academics, finding fossilised sperm is extremely rare, with 바카라사이트 oldest known example being a mere 17 million years old. , published in?Royal Society Proceedings B, is important for research into 바카라사이트 evolutionary history of a mode of sexual reproduction involving ¡°giant sperm¡±.

Perhaps one morale-boosting activity for students locked down in 바카라사이트ir halls of residence could be adapting classic Christmas songs as part of a campaigning bid to ensure 바카라사이트y are allowed home for 바카라사이트 festive period. ¡°All I Want For Christmas Is (To Leave) U(ni)¡± is this writer¡¯s poor attempt, but it looks?as though students will have plenty of time to come up with better alternatives. Despite barely being in October, 바카라사이트 issue is squaring up to be a major decision for UK governments, with scientists worried that students travelling back to family homes will spread 바카라사이트 virus to more vulnerable groups. Desperate not to be labelled Scrooges when 바카라사이트 time comes, politicians also seem to be carefully laying 바카라사이트 ground to blame somebody else if 바카라사이트y do issue such a diktat. The UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden said ¡°if we all pull toge바카라사이트r and observe 바카라사이트se new rules¡± 바카라사이트n it would be possible for students to go home at 바카라사이트 end of term.