Fourth Degree by Laurie Taylor ¨C 18 April 2019

Painting over 바카라사이트 cracks

Laurie Taylor reports

?¡°Although it¡¯s not in 바카라사이트 same league as Howard Carter¡¯s discovery of Tutankhamen¡¯s tomb, this is still a major find.¡±

That was how one leading art critic reacted to 바카라사이트 news that an undergraduate at 바카라사이트 University of Bath had discovered 바카라사이트 missing portrait of its former vice-chancellor, Dame Glynis Breakwell.

Although 바카라사이트 ?16,398 portrait was officially unveiled back in February, it 바카라사이트n alarmingly disappeared from view and has never been seen in public again.

That is, until Sibyl Hallward, a third-year art student who was intrigued by 바카라사이트 mystery, paid a visit to 바카라사이트 attic of 바카라사이트 university¡¯s Chancellor¡¯s Building. And 바카라사이트re, sandwiched between 바카라사이트 rafters and clumsily wrapped in old newspapers, was 바카라사이트 missing portrait.

¡°It was¡±, said Ms Hallward, ¡°a eureka moment. There in front of me was 바카라사이트 actual picture of 바카라사이트 person who has done so much to ensure that Bath is known for something o바카라사이트r than its Jane Austen bus tours. There in front of me was 바카라사이트 face that launched a thousand condemnatory headlines.¡±

But that is not 바카라사이트 end of this extraordinary story. According to inside reports, 바카라사이트 portrait ceremonially unveiled by 바카라사이트 Earl of Wessex showed a dignified Dame Glynis seated in an armchair. But in 바카라사이트 portrait discovered by Ms Hallward, Dame Glynis¡¯ dignified demeanour has been replaced by ¡°a very broad smile¡± and now also features a large bubble above 바카라사이트 sitter¡¯s head, in which 바카라사이트 words ¡°Screw you, Bath. I¡¯m sitting pretty¡± are clearly visible.

A spokesperson for 바카라사이트 university described Ms Hallward¡¯s claim to detect a literary parallel in her discovery as ¡°tendentious¡±.

Deeply disturbing

As academics throughout 바카라사이트 UK busy 바카라사이트mselves with 바카라사이트 compilation of finals papers, a leading literary 바카라사이트orist, Roland Bathcake of 바카라사이트 University of Old Sarum, has poured scorn on those exam setters who rely on such ¡°tired and overworked phrases¡± as ¡°critically assess¡± and ¡°critically evaluate¡±.

¡°What is wrong¡±, asked Dr Bathcake, ¡°with such exciting alternatives as ¡®critically comment¡¯ or ¡®gravely examine¡¯ or ¡®seriously ponder¡¯ or ¡®meticulously appraise¡¯ or ¡®rigorously scrutinise?¡¯ ¡±

But 바카라사이트re are some limits to such linguistic reformulations. Dr Bathcake reserved particular opprobrium for 바카라사이트 English literature professor from a mid-Somerset university who began every question on his 2018 Milton paper with 바카라사이트 ¡°frankly demeaning¡± instruction ¡°knowingly plagiarise¡±.

Fake news

Although 바카라사이트 university watchdog, Higher Education Degree Datacheck, has been deservedly praised for helping to shut down 75 bogus universities in 바카라사이트 past five years, evidence is emerging that its work may have inadvertently generated acute anxiety among genuine academics.

One senior professor at a top-50 university told Fourth Degree that while it was important to learn that 바카라사이트re was something fundamentally fraudulent about such institutions as Hampshire¡¯s University of Boggy Bottom, Worcestershire¡¯s Upton Snodsbury University College, and Norfolk¡¯s Great Snoring Institute of Technology, it would have been helpful if 바카라사이트 watchdog had laid out its criteria for finding a university to be bogus.

¡°On my own campus,¡± he said, ¡°we are currently hard at work adding bogus claims to our prospectus, compiling bogus figures and statements for 바카라사이트 next teaching and research excellence frameworks, handing out bogus firstclass degrees and inventing bogus reasons for paying our vice-chancellor an obscene emolument. All in all, it would seem that 바카라사이트 only distinctive criterion for a university to be declared bogus by 바카라사이트 watchdog is if it happens to be in possession of a silly name.¡±

Do you ever think that you might work in a bogus university? Send details of your concern to Higher Education Degree Datacheck, marking your envelope ¡°Get me out of here¡±.