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New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

Cambridge University suppresses dissent on its Viva Engage -- an internal social network for staff & the university community

Articles linked to press reports of problems with bullying are removed

Strengthening of free speech legislation is needed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

Wealth of plantation owners in Antigua created Harvard Law School

Harvard's 'Legacy of Slavery Initiative' has become window dressing

It's more about PR - limiting bad publicity & legal liability

This fits familiar pattern in university governance, worldwide

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

1 day ago 3 1 0 0

It's a great addition to English language

"He's more than a grifter, he's an absolute Vice Chancellor"

"We put him in charge & he's VC-ed us into decay"

"Started simple. Now it’s VC’d up & no one knows what’s going on"

"He calls it stakeholder engagement, classic VC speak"

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Sheffield Hallam University nursery closure plan 'mad' - parents Sheffield Hallam University is consulting over the closure of its Collegiate Nursery site.

Sheffield has long nursery waiting lists

Yet Sheffield Hallam University’s nursery - open beyond just staff - has falling attendance

It's not well publicised 😉

Because SHU wants to shut it & sell the building to balance the books. Convenient timing 😲

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"Love, sex & tragedy"

Long ago, a Fellow of King’s College said any wave of accountability, such as the #MeToo movement in 2017, would inevitably result in Simon Goldhill's downfall

It didn't happen until 2026. Why?

New blog posting

21percent.org?p=3528

1 day ago 3 1 0 0

VC is term ready for semantic drift

"All's gone & we’re over budget. It's an absolute Vice Chancellor”

"Not just failure, he's a VC - slow, expensive, pointless"

"Only thing delivered is disappointment. Proper VC"

"There’s a big crater, we've been VC-ed"

"It won't work, everything is VC-ed up"

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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

Wealth of plantation owners in Antigua created Harvard Law School

Harvard's 'Legacy of Slavery Initiative' has become window dressing

It's more about PR - limiting bad publicity & legal liability

This fits familiar pattern in university governance, worldwide

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

1 day ago 3 1 0 0

It's a great addition to English language

"He's more than a grifter, he's an absolute Vice Chancellor"

"We put him in charge & he's VC-ed us into decay"

"Started simple. Now it’s VC’d up & no one knows what’s going on"

"He calls it stakeholder engagement, classic VC speak"

1 day ago 6 3 0 0
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"Love, sex & tragedy"

Long ago, a Fellow of King’s College said any wave of accountability, such as the #MeToo movement in 2017, would inevitably result in Simon Goldhill's downfall

It didn't happen until 2026. Why?

New blog posting

21percent.org?p=3528

1 day ago 3 1 0 0
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Sheffield Hallam University nursery closure plan 'mad' - parents Sheffield Hallam University is consulting over the closure of its Collegiate Nursery site.

Sheffield has long nursery waiting lists

Yet Sheffield Hallam University’s nursery - open beyond just staff - has falling attendance

It's not well publicised 😉

Because SHU wants to shut it & sell the building to balance the books. Convenient timing 😲

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1 day ago 4 3 0 0
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VC is term ready for semantic drift

"All's gone & we’re over budget. It's an absolute Vice Chancellor”

"Not just failure, he's a VC - slow, expensive, pointless"

"Only thing delivered is disappointment. Proper VC"

"There’s a big crater, we've been VC-ed"

"It won't work, everything is VC-ed up"

1 day ago 4 2 0 0

Scientific fraud goes hand in hand with bullying

Junior collaborators are often co-authors on problematic works

Strong hierarchy together with publication pressure means early-career researchers cannot safely challenge a high-profile or aggressive PI

If there's fraud, there's bullying in the lab

2 days ago 3 1 0 1
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The British lawyer using US courts to fight research fraud After winning a spectacular legal claim against a Harvard University cancer centre, Eugenie Reich tells Jack Grove about the impact of the case, how universities ‘stonewall’ fraud allegations and why ...

Extent of scientific fraud is significant

Duplicated images in the work of senior Dana-Farber scientists extended to 57 papers

Harvard's Dana-Farber paid £11.2 million settlement to settle

Problem is peer review is unable to detect fraud on this scale

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/british...

2 days ago 4 2 0 0

Scientific fraud goes hand in hand with bullying

Junior collaborators are often co-authors on problematic works

Strong hierarchy together with publication pressure means early-career researchers cannot safely challenge a high-profile or aggressive PI

If there's fraud, there's bullying in the lab

2 days ago 3 1 0 1
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The British lawyer using US courts to fight research fraud After winning a spectacular legal claim against a Harvard University cancer centre, Eugenie Reich tells Jack Grove about the impact of the case, how universities ‘stonewall’ fraud allegations and why ...

Extent of scientific fraud is significant

Duplicated images in the work of senior Dana-Farber scientists extended to 57 papers

Harvard's Dana-Farber paid £11.2 million settlement to settle

Problem is peer review is unable to detect fraud on this scale

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/british...

2 days ago 4 2 0 0
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Whistleblower has ‘no confidence’ in ombudsman after ANU probe Former head of music school says decision not to revisit his complaints shows system ‘worse than useless’

Ombudsman fails #whistleblower at Australian National University

It shuts process down & neutralises the complaint

8 years later, police delivered scathing report on the lack of accountability & tolerance for “bias, nepotism and abuse at ANU"

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/whistle...

3 days ago 2 3 0 0
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Whistleblower has ‘no confidence’ in ombudsman after ANU probe Former head of music school says decision not to revisit his complaints shows system ‘worse than useless’

Ombudsman fails #whistleblower at Australian National University

It shuts process down & neutralises the complaint

8 years later, police delivered scathing report on the lack of accountability & tolerance for “bias, nepotism and abuse at ANU"

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/whistle...

3 days ago 2 3 0 0
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Arnold Schwarzenegger receives Honorary Doctorate from Ulster University Arnold Schwarzenegger receives Honorary Doctorate from Ulster University

Astonishing story of mismanagement at Ulster University

Management were too busy handing honorary PhDs to Arnold Schwarzenegger & pouring money into flagship Belfast campus to remember someone has to pay the bill

Turns out the staff will have to pay

www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

3 days ago 7 5 0 0
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No warning whatsoever for staff at Ulster University as redundancies announced

Teams comments are deliberately switched off to shut down any chance of questions / dissent

Typical of hubris of senior management

Terrible optics - after Schwarzenegger visit & parties at University of the Year awards

3 days ago 8 5 0 0
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Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs It is not clear which parts of the university, which has campuses in Belfast, Londonderry and Coleraine as well as in Qatar, will be affected.

Paul Bartholomew, Vice Chancellor of Ulster University, has free house, car & driver. He earns ~£300k with big pension

Highest paid staff get plush treatment

Lower grades are told 'to do more with less' or sacked

Austerity only ever travels downward

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3 days ago 12 6 0 0
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450 redundancies at Ulster University announced by Vice Chancellor on webinar 'Most recent accounts published on the UU website do not indicate the kind of deficit that might lead to such large-scale redundancies' - Cllr Shaun Harkin

Devastation of universities in N. Ireland, Wales, Scotland & North of England is a huge mistake

Especially when Govt is doubling funding for Oxford–Cambridge corridor, this looks so bad 😲

Even in narrow political terms, this is a massive error

www.derrynow.com/news/local-n...

4 days ago 8 5 0 0

No warning whatsoever for staff at Ulster University as redundancies announced

Teams comments are deliberately switched off to shut down any chance of questions / dissent

Typical of hubris of senior management

Terrible optics - after Schwarzenegger visit & parties at University of the Year awards

3 days ago 8 5 0 0
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Arnold Schwarzenegger receives Honorary Doctorate from Ulster University Arnold Schwarzenegger receives Honorary Doctorate from Ulster University

Astonishing story of mismanagement at Ulster University

Management were too busy handing honorary PhDs to Arnold Schwarzenegger & pouring money into flagship Belfast campus to remember someone has to pay the bill

Turns out the staff will have to pay

www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

3 days ago 7 5 0 0
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Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs It is not clear which parts of the university, which has campuses in Belfast, Londonderry and Coleraine as well as in Qatar, will be affected.

Paul Bartholomew, Vice Chancellor of Ulster University, has free house, car & driver. He earns ~£300k with big pension

Highest paid staff get plush treatment

Lower grades are told 'to do more with less' or sacked

Austerity only ever travels downward

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3 days ago 12 6 0 0
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450 redundancies at Ulster University announced by Vice Chancellor on webinar 'Most recent accounts published on the UU website do not indicate the kind of deficit that might lead to such large-scale redundancies' - Cllr Shaun Harkin

Devastation of universities in N. Ireland, Wales, Scotland & North of England is a huge mistake

Especially when Govt is doubling funding for Oxford–Cambridge corridor, this looks so bad 😲

Even in narrow political terms, this is a massive error

www.derrynow.com/news/local-n...

4 days ago 8 5 0 0

Superb exposé of rampant bullying & sexual harassment in German academia

Powerful Professors are shown as routinely mistreating students & colleagues as well as displaying rampant misogyny, racism & homophobia

Widely known, yet often pampered & protected by institutions

5 days ago 4 3 0 0
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Sheffield Hallam University job cuts warning ahead of strike ballot The University and College Union says the cuts would weaken the university's appeal to students.

Smaller universities like Hallam are major local employers, global exporters & drivers of UK culture

They bring in money & opportunity to the region

Why aren’t MPs standing up for them?

Job cuts at both the Sheffield Unis will make the city much poorer

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

5 days ago 6 2 0 0

Medwin Hughes led Carmarthen College & took over Lampeter, Swansea Met & Uni of Wales

As Wales’ best-paid Vice Chancellor, he ran multiple campuses (London, Wuhan), worked the system & gave jobs to Welsh Govt allies😉

He resigned in 2023 & moved up

Wales’ oldest Uni, Lampeter, is now shut down

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Much more to come out on the Simon Goldhill Scandal

University & King's College, Cambridge are in full damage limitation mode

They express grave concern, promise robust procedures & then retreat behind confidentiality

Nothing to see here, move on along folks 😉

@the1752group.bsky.social

5 days ago 3 2 0 0
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Exclusive: Former ANU VC accused of ‘serious misconduct’ Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no universi...

Academic criminologists rarely look at possibility of University corruption

Upton Sinclair put it best

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

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