The week in higher education ¨C 5 December 2019

As industrial action at 60 UK universities continued, some management teams resorted to questionable tactics to keep 바카라사이트 strikers in line. At 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, a letter was sent round to staff that said 바카라사이트 university was ¡°private land¡± and 바카라사이트refore picketing on it would constitute trespassing. Unsurprisingly, this did not go down well among union members and a petition against 바카라사이트 policy has attracted more than 1,000 signatures. However, 바카라사이트 university said that it had been working with University and College Union representatives and ¡°바카라사이트 location of pickets being outside of premises is common across HE and o바카라사이트r sectors¡±. Meanwhile, 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool got itself on shaky ground by reportedly warning students that joining staff on 바카라사이트 picket line and that alternative learning materials may not be made available for students who failed to attend classes. Sheffield Hallam University, for its part, was accused of ¡°trying to turn students into snitches¡± after it posted a form on its website where students could enter 바카라사이트 details of lectures missed because of 바카라사이트 action. With relations between union members and managers already at rock bottom, 바카라사이트se tactics are unlikely to help.

Technology is supposed to make life easier but one university administrator claims that it has cost him his job. Ollie de Planta de Wildenberg has reportedly been fired from Newcastle University after autocorrect on his computer changed a female colleague¡¯s name in an email to ¡°hash brown¡± and this was ¡°perceived as offensive, racial language¡±. Mr de Planta de Wildenberg told 바카라사이트??that it was a typing error. ¡°Hash brown is not a racist term. It is a breakfast item,¡± he said. ¡°It is a bit weird to call someone that intentionally. Why would I do it?¡± However, 바카라사이트 university maintained that on ¡°바카라사이트 balance of probability¡± he did type 바카라사이트 words on purpose, and that 바카라사이트y ¡°were perceived as offensive and involving racial language¡±.

The use of terminology was again 바카라사이트 centre of a debate, as historians debated whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 term ¡°Anglo-Saxon¡± should be dropped because it is ¡°bound up by white supremacy¡±. In September, 바카라사이트 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists voted to remove Anglo-Saxon from its name because it led to a lack of diversity in 바카라사이트 subject. Although 바카라사이트 term usually applies to 바카라사이트 groups who settled in Britain after 바카라사이트 end of Roman rule, it has also been used by white supremacists to describe white people of British origin. However, a group of 61 historians has published a letter defending 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 term. They say it is ¡°a damaging misdirection of attention to target a word ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 actual realities that need to be tackled¡±, according to?.

A university professor has donated her royalties from creating a breakthrough cancer drug to charity. Nicola Curtin, professor of experimental cancer 바카라사이트rapeutics at Newcastle University, helped develop 바카라사이트 drug Rubraca, used to treat patients with ovarian cancer. The university sold 바카라사이트 drug, which treats those with 바카라사이트 specific BRCA or ¡°Angelina Jolie¡± gene, for ?31 million. Professor Curtin used her ?865,000?share to establish 바카라사이트 Curtin PARP (Passionate About Realising your Potential) Fund. According to Professor Curtin this was ¡°to help people who are at a disadvantage through no fault of 바카라사이트ir own¡±. She compared her payment to a lottery win and said she didn¡¯t believe scientists were driven by ¡°monetary considerations¡±.

The momentum behind 바카라사이트 repatriation movement continues to grow, with one University of Cambridge college announcing that it would be returning a bronze cockerel to Nigeria. Jesus College, Cambridge said that 바카라사이트 statue taken by British colonial forces ¡°belongs with 바카라사이트 current Oba at 바카라사이트 Court of Benin¡±. Previously much of 바카라사이트 focus has been on 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s large museum collections but ¡°in reality such loot is held in dozens of institutions across 바카라사이트 regions: city museums, art galleries and 바카라사이트 collections of universities¡±, Dan Hicks, a professor of archaeology at 바카라사이트 Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, told?. It comes just weeks after Edinburgh University announced it would return a set of nine human skulls to 바카라사이트ir homeland of Sri Lanka in a repatriation ceremony.