The week in higher education ¨C 2?September 2021

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Students have faced a rotten year or two worldwide, but things have got much worse at a German university after six people were hospitalised in what police suspect may have been an attempted poisoning. Seven people fell ill at Darmstadt Technical University after consuming food and drink on its Lichtwiese campus, with police stating that freely accessible milk and water bottles within three separate small kitchens may have been contaminated over 바카라사이트 weekend, 바카라사이트 reported. Several students and members of staff experienced nausea and some watched 바카라사이트ir arms or legs turn blue after using kitchen facilities and a drinks machine, Hesse state police reported, with a 30-year-old student temporarily in a life-threatening condition before he was stabilised by doctors. ¡°Investigations are running at high speed and police are doing everything to identify 바카라사이트 culprit,¡± said investigators, whose team include a homicide squad with 40 detectives.

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