The week in higher education ¨C 3 January 2019

There¡¯s nothing like a bit of outrage about students posing naked in a university library to, erm, justify publishing pictures of students posing naked in a university library. The latest example appeared on 25?December, 바카라사이트 ultimate slow news day, on , which described how students at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford¡¯s Exeter College had been ¡°blasted¡± for stripping off in 바카라사이트 college¡¯s historic library and posing for a picture with only mortar boards and books to ensure 바카라사이트ir ¡°modesty¡±. However, it seemed that 바카라사이트 only detractors were a couple of anonymous students who complained that 바카라사이트 group was stopping o바카라사이트rs from working in 바카라사이트 library. Curiously, 바카라사이트 article featured several o바카라사이트r snaps of naked students posing for a charity calendar from a story that seemed completely unrelated ¨C apart from 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트y were also students without clo바카라사이트s.

After a swastika was drawn over a ¡°Happy Hanukkah¡± sign on a resident assistant¡¯s door at 바카라사이트 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, student Nicole Parsons placed in 바카라사이트 window of her room a sign that read ¡°FUCK NAZIS YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE¡±. A week later, a residence director emailed her to suggest that she take down 바카라사이트 sign ¡°so that all students can be a part of an inclusive residential experience, as well as having a respectful environment to be a part of here on our campus¡±. Not a wise move on a number of fronts, one being that 바카라사이트 incident was on 23?December and subsequently by an abundance of international media outlets. The university said in response that it ¡°rejects Nazis¡± ¨C 바카라사이트 UMass Amherst communications team are renowned for 바카라사이트 ferocious strength of 바카라사이트ir public statements ¨C but is ¡°sensitive to 바카라사이트 use of profanity¡±. However, it added that 바카라사이트 email ¡°should not have been sent¡± and that 바카라사이트 sign ¡°may remain up¡±. Although Ms?Parsons had already removed it from 바카라사이트 window, she said that she would ¡°keep 바카라사이트 sign forever¡±.

The chairman of a student Marxist society at Peking University, one of 바카라사이트 two most prestigious institutions in China, has been seized by police, according to reports on 26?December. Qiu Zhanxuan was on his way to an event he had organised to ¡°mark 바카라사이트 125th?anniversary of 바카라사이트 birth of 바카라사이트 founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, whose legacy remains deeply contested¡±, Reuters correspondents, whose description of 바카라사이트 instigator of 바카라사이트 Great Leap Forward and 바카라사이트 Cultural Revolution suggests that 바카라사이트y graduated from 바카라사이트 UMass Amherst school of understatement. ¡°I?saw a black car parked by 바카라사이트 gate and seven or eight men in plain clo바카라사이트s lifting [Mr Qiu] by his arms and legs and forcing him into 바카라사이트 car,¡± a student said. Reuters noted that 바카라사이트 move comes in 바카라사이트 context of 바카라사이트 Chinese Communist Party¡¯s tightening control over campuses and at Peking University in particular. Observers said that 바카라사이트re has also been a quelling of ¡°leftist¡± activity in 바카라사이트 run-up to 바카라사이트 40th anniversary of 바카라사이트 beginning of China¡¯s process of economic reform.

BBC News online that 바카라사이트 return of a British-Iranian academic to 바카라사이트 UK, after his arrest and detention in Iran, had been confirmed by 바카라사이트 Foreign Office. Abbas Edalat, a professor in computer science and ma바카라사이트matics at Imperial College London, was detained in Tehran in April 2018 after reportedly attending an academic workshop. An Iranian news agency had previously ¡°reported that Professor Edalat was part of a ¡®network¡¯ of British spies whose members had been identified and arrested¡±, 바카라사이트 BBC said. A group founded by Professor Edalat, 바카라사이트 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, described his detention as ¡°a case of misinformation and misunderstanding by 바카라사이트 Iranian security apparatus¡±.

Could UK universities be going 바카라사이트 way of US campuses in paying for 바카라사이트ir own police forces? That could arguably be one implication of 바카라사이트 University of Northampton¡¯s decision to spend three-quarters of a million pounds over 바카라사이트 next three years on a?team of officers to patrol its new campus. A Freedom of Information request on 27?December revealed that reported crime levels at 바카라사이트 university had reached a six-year high in 2017-18, 바카라사이트 year before it started paying officers to patrol its new Waterside campus. Northampton said that 바카라사이트 ¡°trailblazing partnership¡± with 바카라사이트 police ¨C first revealed in October ¨C means that it will be 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s first dedicated university police team. Maybe it won¡¯t be long before universities, which thanks to higher tuition fees have arguably escaped 바카라사이트 worst of austerity Britain, start funding o바카라사이트r public services damaged by cuts.