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We should have a quick look at Gavin Williamson's op-ed on today's launch of free speech measures, really.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/02/16/turning-tide-cancel-culture-will-start-universities-respecting/ "Last yea
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So at this King's thing Michael Barber just discussed this: It's from "The Coddling of the American Mind" and is an example in the book of a problematic university speech
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I really have read it all now. Today the Times previews a speech that @MichaelBarber9 will give at King's on diversity of perspective. Much of the report covers remarks that
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You're a third year undergraduate. Your degree - which has a series of practical components - has been plagued with disruption, first by industrial action, and latterly by the pandemic.
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One of the things I spend a good portion of my week doing is working with awesome people who spend their time making student life better. It's been a pretty
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1. On tuition fees I understand the arguments about whether home UG students would actually benefit and that universities having to pay out refunds and rebates would be financially ruinous.
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1. We need @CMAgovUK to step in and clarify the consumer rights position on charging students to live in student accommodation they can't use, and in halls (private and uni)
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FWIW if it was up to me. 1. Accept and announce that there won't be any in-person teaching this term unless absolutely necessary. 2. Allow medics nurses etc to continue.
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Nick Cohen has a piece in the Jan/Feb issue of the Critic on "left wing authoritarianism". In it he notes a "poll by Survation found a quarter of British students
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Turing replacement for Eramsus+ details out This is what the Commons Education Committee said a while back. Note our replacement is covering 30,000 students and includes students in schools. https://twitter.com/LordRickettsP/status/13427921
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So here's the January guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-reopening-buildings-and-campuses/students-returning-to-higher-education-from-spring-term Some students will be told to go home and not return for
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If true - and the timetable remotely realistic, then lots of parts of society are going to be tempted to "wait until April". It will be the answer to everything.
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