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ZOMG, THEY’RE TEACHING TERRORISM!?!?!
My head hurts. I just spent 20 minutes reading the comments in this article and I need to lie down. It’s by Rizwaan Sabir, a PhD student who was arrested for downloading an Al-Qaeda manual (and being a bit brown). That seems fair enough, you might think: surely someone who downloads such a manual...
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Don’t worry: your university is not trying to kill you
Yesterday, I wrote: “Following Mutallab’s alleged actions, there will probably be a purported crackdown on ‘extremism’ within universities.” Today, as predicted, the Daily Telegraph contains an editorial jumping on this bandwagon, pointing the finger at universities for failing to fight Islamism. Its headline is the completely reasonable: “Academic liberalism is a danger to life”....
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UCL student accused of plane bomb plot in the USA
A student at University College, London is in custody after reportedly attempting to blow up a plane in the USA. Thankfully Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was studying engineering and not pyrotechnics: his explosives failed to go off and he ended up burning just his own legs. More here. Following Mutallab’s alleged actions, there will...
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Heads roll at the Student Loans Company
After months of incompetence and thousands of students stranded at university without any money, two members of the Student Loans Company have resigned. The man who oversaw the entire sorry operation remains, however. The two who took the buck were Wallace Gray, the SLC’s ICT director, and Martin Herbert, the marketing and customer services...
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Why shouldn’t medics and engineers pay higher fees?
According to Lord Browne’s report into tuition fees a degree is now worth ‘just’ £2,500 a year to ‘graduates’. This equates to £100,000 over a lifetime, after tax. This figure, however, doesn’t include student debt. So, is university worth it, from a purely financial point of view when student debt is included?
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Website sells off desirable internships for charity
The Guardian’s Graduate section has a piece bemoaning the sale of internships and work experience. A charity, Pilotlight, have been selling placements with Channel 5 and the Daily Express, among others. (Let’s just ignore why on earth someone would want to work for either of these two companies, for now).
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Conservative’s plan to get more science grads teaching
Michael Gove, Shadow Schools Secretary, has announced a quite simple new policy to entice more science graduates into teaching science – graduates get their student loan paid off, if they go into teaching. It’s a good policy insofar that it gets lots and lots and lots of headlines. The downside is, it won’t make...
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Sex blogger is former University of Sheffield student
The news that the sex-blogger and former call girl Belle de Jour was a PhD candidate at Sheffield University is quite surprising. The average PhD student is lucky if they’ve actually had sex at all – never mind having someone pay to do it with them.
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At least you’re having a better day than this guy…
There is pain. Then there is ‘dog biting you flush in the balls’ pain.
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