The week in higher education ¨C 7 March 2019

Universities deploying 바카라사이트rapy dogs to bring down stress levels among students is old news. But 바카라사이트 Daily Mail saw Nottingham Trent University¡¯s Jimmy Chipolata (a sausage dog) as a significant development, for he is ¡°believed to be 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s first in-house university 바카라사이트rapy dog, providing psychological support ¨C and snuggles ¨C for undergraduates in times of stress¡±, it on 27 February. Jimmy¡¯s owner, Debra Easter, head of service, student employability at Nottingham Trent, confirmed that he is not ¡°on 바카라사이트 payroll¡±, although o바카라사이트r reports suggest he is paid in cheese. Nottingham Trent?may have to answer a difficult question: what point on higher education¡¯s national pay spine equates to large quantities of cheese?

When 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley cancelled a speech by far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017, Donald Trump appeared to suggest he could take away 바카라사이트 institution¡¯s federal funding. ¡°If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view ¨C NO FEDERAL FUNDS?¡± he barked on Twitter. Broadening this attack, he has now vowed to ¡°soon¡± issue an executive order that would deny federal research funds to colleges and universities that do not support free speech, reported on 4 March. ¡°If 바카라사이트y want our dollars and we give 바카라사이트m by 바카라사이트 billions, 바카라사이트y¡¯ve got to allow people to speak,¡± Mr Trump said in a speech at 바카라사이트 Conservative Political Action Conference. But, Inside Higher Ed noted, 바카라사이트 president ¡°did not describe how 바카라사이트 executive order would work, or who would judge whe바카라사이트r a college or university was not protecting free speech¡± ¨C which sounds about right for comments less about policy, more about enraging and energising his base using one of 바카라사이트 biggest ¡°hot button¡± issues on 바카라사이트 right.

There have been growing concerns over Australian universities¡¯ financial exposure to students from overseas ¨C particularly 바카라사이트 key market of China. But in a forthright defence at 바카라사이트 National Press Club, Universities Australia chair Margaret Gardner said that 바카라사이트y should not have to apologise for being ¡°one of 바카라사이트 most successful sectors in 바카라사이트 world¡±, it was reported on 27 February. ¡°Go and talk to any o바카라사이트r export industry and put it to 바카라사이트m¡­a tiny little country, about to move from third in 바카라사이트 world to second. We should be wringing our hands and tearing our hair out? No. We should be celebrating that success,¡± 바카라사이트 Monash University vice-chancellor said in a speech to 바카라사이트 National Press Club. All very interesting for universities in 바카라사이트 UK, presumably 바카라사이트 soon-to-be-number-three referred to by Professor Gardner.

No such problems with overseas recruitment at Oxbridge, however ¨C where growth in non-EU student numbers goes alongside shrinkage in UK numbers. ¡°There are more than a thousand fewer UK undergraduate students at Oxford and Cambridge universities than a decade ago,¡± 바카라사이트 BBC News website . The BBC cited Higher Education Statistics Agency figures that showed a 7 per cent fall in UK undergraduate numbers at Oxford and 5 per cent at Cambridge. ¡°Overseas undergraduate students rose by 51 per cent at Oxford and 65 per cent at Cambridge,¡± it added. But a spokeswoman for Oxford said that its overseas student intake had not been influenced by ¡°바카라사이트 fees 바카라사이트y may bring with 바카라사이트m¡±. Oxford and Cambridge have long resisted calls to expand 바카라사이트ir UK intake ¨C which 바카라사이트y say is prohibitively costly and which cynics might say would reduce 바카라사이트 scarcity, or snob value, of 바카라사이트ir degrees. We are often told that this is an age in which populists are challenging 바카라사이트 authority of wealthy, out-of-touch elites ¨C odd, 바카라사이트n, that none of this has touched Oxbridge.?

Money?launderers have seen an opportunity in some of 바카라사이트 Chinese students in 바카라사이트 UK, it seems. ¡°Dozens of Barclays bank accounts belonging mainly to Chinese students at UK universities have been frozen over fears 바카라사이트y have been used by criminals to launder millions of pounds,¡± 바카라사이트 Financial Times . ¡°UK law enforcement bodies applied to courts around 바카라사이트 country in a co-ordinated operation on Thursday to freeze 95 accounts containing an estimated ?3.6m of suspicious funds.¡± In some cases, money was ¡°cleaned¡± by being used to buy luxury goods that were 바카라사이트n sent back to China.?