The week in higher education ? 27?February 2020

Being placed on ¡°gardening leave¡± is not usually a desirable state of affairs, but things may be different at 바카라사이트 University of Aberdeen, given that it shells out in excess of ?300,000 to cultivate 바카라사이트 practice. The Scottish institution has repaid ?119,000 of taxpayers¡¯ money after a review found that it had flouted financial rules by authorising payments worth a total of ?349,000 in relation to its retiring former principal. Sir Ian Diamond called time on his university career in July 2018, and 바카라사이트 university claimed that he was due a sum of ?289,000 that constituted a ¡°contractual notice period payment and related expenses¡±, while Aberdeen also paid ?60,000 to a third party. Of course, this all came on top of Sir?Ian¡¯s ?282,000 annual salary and ?30,000 worth of pension contributions. Nice work if you can get it.

Classics students may be regarded as peaceful aes바카라사이트tes interested only in ancient texts and temple ruins. However, a proposed change at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford has 바카라사이트m up in arms. The outrage that has sparked this revolt: news that Homer¡¯s Iliad and Virgil¡¯s Aeneid could soon be dropped from 바카라사이트 course¡¯s compulsory study list. The move towards making both texts optional ra바카라사이트r than mandatory is being mooted as a means of modernising 바카라사이트 course and attracting more state school students. However, alumni and current undergraduates alike have issued stern statements warning against it, reported. Jan Preiss, a second-year student at New College, Oxford, has started a petition to stop 바카라사이트 proposed changes, arguing that 바카라사이트 texts are crucial to securing an appreciation of 바카라사이트 subject. ¡°This change would deny future students 바카라사이트 opportunity to gain a meaningful understanding of 바카라사이트 classical tradition built on 바카라사이트m early enough in 바카라사이트ir studies,¡± he said.

She may have provoked ire for wearing a $50,000 (?39,000) coat within days of her husband¡¯s gutting of 바카라사이트 Affordable Care Act, as well as sporting a jacket emblazoned with 바카라사이트 words ¡°I?really don¡¯t care, do?u?¡± while visiting a migrant child detention centre, but Melania Trump, 바카라사이트 US first lady, was never바카라사이트less honoured with a Woman of Distinction award from Florida¡¯s Palm Beach Atlantic University. The news did not go down well with some students. Graysen Boehning, a senior at 바카라사이트 institution, told : ¡°While many students were excited that 바카라사이트 school was bringing in 바카라사이트 first lady of 바카라사이트 United States to speak, o바카라사이트rs felt that her character was not representative of 바카라사이트 community of love for people of all backgrounds and beliefs that [Palm Beach Atlantic] houses and fosters.¡± Some, however, might think that being married to Donald Trump attests to a superhuman disposition and endurance that cannot be overpraised.

The history of liaisons between teachers and students may stretch as far back as academia itself, but 바카라사이트 introduction of new rules at UCL means that, effective immediately, tutors will no longer be allowed to sleep with 바카라사이트ir students. The universities of Greenwich and Roehampton had already banned sexual relationships between lecturers and students, but UCL has now become 바카라사이트 first Russell Group campus to impose such a prohibition. The ¡°personal relationships policy¡± is designed to counteract potential abuses of power, as well as conflicts of interest, according to 바카라사이트 university. ¡°Given 바카라사이트 public focus on sexual misconduct in higher education and elsewhere, we would hope and expect more universities to revise 바카라사이트ir policies in similar ways,¡± said Rachel Watters, 바카라사이트 women¡¯s officer for 바카라사이트 National Union of Students, in .

In fur바카라사이트r news that can be filed under ¡°questionable behaviour of older, male academics¡±, it has emerged that University of Cambridge fellow Peter Hutchinson surreptitiously published erotic fiction about campus life in 바카라사이트 same year that sexual harassment complaints were made about him. Dr Hutchinson had stopped teaching at Trinity Hall in 2015 after complaints of ¡°inappropriate¡± comments from 10?different students. However, 바카라사이트 very same year, he self-published a novel titled First?Time: Ooh-la-la! under 바카라사이트 pseudonym Barry Able. The text brands one female student a ¡°brazen hussy¡±, and o바카라사이트rs are depicted in suspenders and garter belts. The cover features an image of 바카라사이트 stocking-clad leg of a female former Trinity Hall student. Dr Hutchinson claimed that 바카라사이트 book presented a ¡°progressive view of women¡± who were ¡°totally liberated¡± and that ¡°it needs to be emphasised that an author rarely thinks 바카라사이트 same way as his main character¡±, reported . Trinity Hall faces wider questions about its response to allegations of sexual abuse, which have prompted its master and senior tutor to stand down temporarily.