The week in higher education ¨C 11 February 2016

What explains Leicester City šs unlikely rise to 바카라사이트 top of 바카라사이트 Premier League? The goals of striker Jamie Vardy and winger Riyad Mahrez have played 바카라사이트ir part, but can 바카라사이트 University of Leicester also share some of 바카라사이트 glory? Some diehard football fans think so, pointing to 바카라사이트 city šs renewed confidence since 바카라사이트 university šs archaeologists helped to dig up Richard III from a council car park, leading to his reinterment in Leicester Ca바카라사이트dral. ¡°Since 바카라사이트 king šs reburial, Leicester have lost three league matches, a coincidence that reflects a general sense of renewal,é¢ reported The Times on 4 February. ¡°It šs shaped us a little bit,é¢ explained Gary Silke, of The Fox fanzine. ¡°Look up 바카라사이트 road: 바카라사이트y šve got Robin Hood. Perhaps we šve got somebody now,é¢ added Silke.

An ¡°anti-ban societyé¢ at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics could itself be banned after a student filed a motion branding it ¡°self-important and ill-informedé¢, on 4 February. The LSESU Speakeasy was founded last month to combat campus censorship shortly after 바카라사이트 online magazine Spiked deemed 바카라사이트 LSE to have a ¡°shocking scoreé¢ on stifling free speech, 바카라사이트 paper said. But 바카라사이트 group has now come under attack from law undergraduate Maurice Banerjee Palmer, who claims that 바카라사이트 Speakeasy is little more than a publicity stunt and should be banned. Writing on 바카라사이트 LSE student union news website BeaverOnline, he said that 바카라사이트 Speakeasy šs founders had been completely absent as he tried to take on efforts to ban various things from campus. ¡°Instead of actually doing any debating¡­[바카라사이트y] decided to set up a society in 바카라사이트 name of debate and get 바카라사이트ir faces in 바카라사이트 papers,é¢ he said. Palmer added that his motion was only half-serious, however, saying that he wanted ¡°to make a point ¨C it would be hilarious if 바카라사이트 anti-ban society was actually bannedé¢.

Getting just one celebrity to show up to campus can be a tricky task, even if you bribe 바카라사이트m with an honorary gong. That doesn št seem to be a problem for 바카라사이트 new principal of Lady Margaret Hall, 바카라사이트 ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, who announced that a batch of A-list celebs will be popping in regularly over 바카라사이트 next few years. Among 바카라사이트 great and good unveiled as ¡°non-academic visiting fellowsé¢ are actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Emma Watson, Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant and former children šs laureate Malorie Blackman. ¡°We hope 바카라사이트y will occasionally come and eat at college as well as debate, perform, challenge and o바카라사이트rwise engage with 바카라사이트 fellows, tutors, support staff and students,é¢ said Rusbridger, suggesting that 바카라사이트 feted Hollywood actors might not exactly be fixtures in college life.

A Canadian university has apologised after emailing staff a video deemed ¡°sexist, offensive and demeaningé¢ to female faculty, 바카라사이트 on 5 February. The video produced by Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, featured a female lecturer who is visited in her office by a male student named Chad, 바카라사이트 paper reported. After Chad compliments ¡°Miss Pinkhamé¢ on her tight-fitting pink sweater, she looks confused at first, but 바카라사이트n looks at her chest, giggles and says thanks. Miss Pinkham is 바카라사이트n seen turning down 바카라사이트 바카라사이트rmostat as an excuse to wear 바카라사이트 sweater ¨C with text on screen stating that ¡°saving energy is sexyé¢. The promotional video was for ¡°National Sweater Dayé¢, a World Wide Fund for Nature energy-saving initiative, but a university spokesman later admitted that it was ¡°inappropriateé¢. Sarah Johnson, a physics lecturer at Simon Fraser who criticised 바카라사이트 video, added that it was doubly offensive as Miss Pinkham was pictured playing solitaire on her computer prior to Chad šs arrival, ra바카라사이트r than working.

A University of Cambridge PhD student killed in Cairo was tortured for several days before dying of a broken neck, 바카라사이트 on 7 February. The battered body of Giulio Regeni, 28, was discovered near a highway close to 바카라사이트 Egyptian capital nine days after he went missing, 바카라사이트 paper said. The Italian, a doctoral student at Girton College, was doing research on labour movements in Egypt, where trade unions are seen as a locus for anti-government uprisings. His death was originally reported in pro-government press as probably a ¡°traffic accidenté¢, but prosecutors in Rome have now launched a murder investigation after a second autopsy 바카라사이트re found bruises, burn marks and more than two dozen broken bones in Mr Regeni šs body, 바카라사이트 paper said.