A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
Private Eye’s “High Principals” is a long-running investigative and satirical column devoted to the management of universities and other higher education institutions, particularly the conduct of vice-chancellors, principals, university executives and governing bodies. Unsurprisingly, Cambridge is making regular appearances. For decades, the Medical Research…
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Background Prof David Sabatini is a prominent molecular biologist, who was a professor and principal investigator at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, affiliated with MIT in (New) Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prof Kristin Knouse, then a junior…
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In the UK, academic tenure in the American sense barely exists. Since the Education Reform Act (1988), universities have been able to dismiss academics not only for misconduct or incapacity, but also on grounds of redundancy.…
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The following is an excerpt from a meeting transcript at the University of Cambridge. It records a junior academic receiving feedback from their Professor. Junior Academic: I’m sorry (sobbing)Junior Academic: I I attempted suicide last year…
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My article on whistleblowing, published in Nature, is here. At the University of Cambridge, whistleblowing investigations are overseen by one of three senior officers: the Registrary, the Academic Secretary or the Vice-Chancellor. Yet the whistleblowing policy has still not been…
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The University of Cambridge has added thousands of employees since 2009. But the most striking change is not the growth of its workforce. It is where that growth has occurred and what it says about the…
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In the wake of the loss of the Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal, and with the Grace impending, the University of Cambridge has announced the membership of the committee tasked with examining its human resources (HR) processes. The…
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The last time a Cambridge Vice-Chancellor was deprived of office was on 7 May 1687. John Peachell had refused to comply with James II’s order to award an MA degree to the Catholic monk Alban Francis…
