Should universities ban staff-student relationships?
As several UK universities outlaw sex between academics and students, two writers offer differing views on the Office for Students’ proposed ban
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Professional Articles
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Being a community college professor has pushed me to breaking point
America’s two-year public colleges are often romanticised as engines of social mobility and the epitome of the educative mission. But one academic has found the reality to be very different, with...
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Pressure to pass mediocre students forced me out of academia
After years of resisting university managers determined to graduate students at all costs, one US professor decided it was time to quit
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Fact and fiction blurred by pandemic jargon
Linguistic framing of coronavirus on campus by management has dodged a proper assessment of risks to students and staff, writes a UK academic
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Coping with the rational chaos of Chinese higher education
Chinese universities now operate on a confusing ‘mixture of Chinese and Western institutional logics’. An anonymous scholar describes the practical and emotional challenges of dealing with constant...
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A student’s view on the pension strikes: support your lecturers
As university staff gear up to strike, one student explains exactly what the strikes are about and why students should stand in solidarity with their lecturers