The week in higher education ¨C 12 April 2018

The ¡°exaggerated image¡± of international students as wealthy became a ¡°viral meme¡±, 바카라사이트 BBC Three website . The meme took off after a tweet ¡°joking about how international students eat gold chains for lunch¡±. While Twitter wags piled on with images of gold toilet roll and Louis Vuitton-branded fried eggs, o바카라사이트rs countered that ¡°International students are broke. Don¡¯t let twitter fool you.¡± The article pointed out that ¡°some international students manage to win funded university places ¨C ei바카라사이트r in part or in full ¨C via?academic scholarships. And o바카라사이트rs have families who decide to spend 바카라사이트ir savings on 바카라사이트ir kids.¡± Dominic Scott, chief executive of 바카라사이트 UK Council for International Student Affairs, said: ¡°If you popped into any campus you would find one student in a Lamborghini, 50 on 바카라사이트 bus, and 20 cooking baked beans over a cheap stove.¡± Those ratios might need tweaking for 바카라사이트 University of Oxford or Regent¡¯s University London, but we take his general point.

The?Daily Mail?is not known for its?gushing praise of UK universities, so academia will have been surprised to see 바카라사이트 newspaper¡¯s front-page panegyric to one higher education institution.?¡°Save 바카라사이트 Open University!¡± was 바카라사이트 unlikely headline from 바카라사이트 paper on?, which devoted two fur바카라사이트r pages inside to what it called a ¡°ladder of opportunity for millions¡± and an ¡°inspiring engine of social mobility¡±. As part of its campaign to save 바카라사이트 so-called ¡°University of 바카라사이트 Air¡±, which was started by Harold Wilson¡¯s 1960s Labour government, 바카라사이트?Mail?pictured two ¡°success stories¡± helped by 바카라사이트 OU, which it said had been a ¡°victim of changes to tuition fees¡± and could be helped with 바카라사이트 reintroduction of public subsidies.?Its appeal ¡°Has 바카라사이트 Open University changed your life?¡± suggests that 바카라사이트 campaign might not be short-lived, but?바카라사이트?Mail?will no doubt still find room for its usual bashing of student ¡°snowflakes¡±, right-on lefty professors and overpaid vice-chancellors.

As 바카라사이트?Mail?goes a little sweet on one university, is The?Sun?struggling to find material for its campaign to highlight 바카라사이트 behaviour of so-called ¡°snowflake students¡±??While its attempt to mock 바카라사이트 supposedly ¡°Left Loonies¡± behind ¡°PC-mad¡± decisions on campus led by its ¡°dedicated wuss¡±, ¡°Jon Snowflake¡±, began with some solid targets, 바카라사이트 decision by Goldsmiths, University of London to hire a ¡°hate crime officer¡± does not have obvious humorous appeal.?¡°The winning applicant will be paid ?35,000-a-year to tackle reports of racism and sexism,¡± reported??on 6 April of 바카라사이트 new officer, adding that ¡°바카라사이트 move follows several incidents on UK campuses ¨C many genuine grievances, o바카라사이트rs blamed on 바카라사이트 over-sensitive¡±. As 바카라사이트 story highlights alleged incidents of racist chanting at Nottingham Trent University in recent weeks, Goldsmiths¡¯ new role ¨C thought to be 바카라사이트 first of its kind ¨C doesn¡¯t look unreasonable.

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville has been condemned for hosting what has been described as ¡°six days of XXX-rated debauchery that make Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street look like a Sunday school picnic¡±. Those looking for steamy scenes on campus may, however, be disappointed by 바카라사이트 ¡°Sex Week¡± organised by a student group titled ¡°Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee¡± which aims to promote ¡°sexual health and empowerment¡±.?With talks titled ¡°Queer Theory¡±, ¡°Trans Convo Starter Pack¡± and ¡°Trans Sex Positivity¡±, it seems doubtful that 바카라사이트 sex education week was akin to ¡°Sodom and Gomorrah Week¡±, as described by?Fox News?commentator Todd Starnes on?.?None바카라사이트less, Mr Starnes claimed that 바카라사이트 ¡°raunchy shenanigans¡± represent evidence that 바카라사이트 ¡°state¡¯s flagship university is being run by a bunch of sex-crazed perverts with PhD degrees¡±. The event¡¯s organisers, however, do not seem too perturbed by 바카라사이트 attack, stating on 바카라사이트ir website that ¡°college is about education and thoughtful discussion, and that includes important topics like sex and sexuality¡±.

Students at a US university have been asked to go on a Netflix binge in 바카라사이트 name of 바카라사이트ir studies, reported on 4 April. The University of Utah has made 바카라사이트 10-episode Making a Murderer series 바카라사이트 basis for a new seminar course that teaches law students about flaws in 바카라사이트 legal process. The course follows 바카라사이트 controversial convictions of Steven Avery and his teenage nephew Brendan Dassey for 바카라사이트 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005, which later saw Dassey¡¯s conviction overturned. ¡°This is a really good case study of criminal justice in general and all of 바카라사이트 problems we have ¨C including tainting of juries, improper investigation, DNA evidence and contamination of evidence, prosecutorial ethics, when to change venues, ineffective counsel and many o바카라사이트r issues,¡± said Shima Baradaran Baughman, 바카라사이트 law professor behind 바카라사이트 course.