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Chancellorship Statement from Wyn Evans

I am writing to ask for your support in the election of the next Chancellor of our University of Cambridge. Our University needs a Chancellor who will defend its founding purpose: to serve the public good through education, learning and Read more…

By 21percent.org, 2 days8 July 2025 ago
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The Times Interview

The Times interviewed Wyn Evans, who spoke of the difficulties faced by young scholars in the article. Sometimes young scholars can find access to research grants hindered. There are a number of ongoing Employment Tribunals in which young scholars are Read more…

By 21percent.org, 3 days7 July 2025 ago
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The Chancellorship Candidates Respond …

The 21 Group contacted the other Chancellorship candidates asking them to respond to Prof Wyn Evans‘ suggestion of the creation of an independent Ombudsman to investigate serious malpractices, bullying or academic misconduct at Cambridge University. The Ombudsman would also be Read more…

By 21percent.org, 4 days6 July 2025 ago
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AFFS caught sight of their bank balances …

The pressure group Alumni For Freedom of Speech (AFFS) circulated a set of questions to the candidates for the Cambridge Chancellorship. Broadly we are supportive of the aims of AFFS. Based on their replies and any other relevant publicly available Read more…

By 21percent.org, 5 days5 July 2025 ago
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ABB — Anyone but Browne

As reported first in the Times Higher Education , a letter is circulating in Cambridge University suggesting that academics use their single transferable vote judiciously to prevent the election of Lord Browne of Madingley as the new Chancellor. There is Read more…

By 21percent.org, 1 week2 July 2025 ago
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Cambridge Chancellorship Shake-Up

On 30 June 2025, the Times Higher Education published an opinion piece from Professor Wyn Evans entitled “Ending bullying and precarity should be the Cambridge chancellor’s focus“. “In over 800 years, only once has a non-university candidate ever won the Read more…

By 21percent.org, 1 week1 July 2025 ago
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Annihilation of a Vice Chancellor

Scottish politicians brutally exposed what has been happening at Dundee University. You can see the carnage here, as former Vice Chancellor Iain Gillespie appeared before the Select Committee at Holyrood. It’s like watching a tubby, slow-moving sloth trapped in a Read more…

By 21percent.org, 2 weeks28 June 2025 ago
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The University Subsidy Scandal

This is a wonderful book from Prof Robert Foley, Emeritus Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge. The author punctures the managerialism that has overwhelmed UK universities with gentle wit. It’s cut from the same mine as many Read more…

By 21percent.org, 2 weeks26 June 2025 ago
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Freedom of Speech

The candidates for the Chancellorship of Cambridge University were sent a series of questions on academic freedom and freedom of speech by Alumni for Freedom of Speech. A summary of some of my answers is below. Are there problems with Read more…

By 21percent.org, 3 weeks22 June 2025 ago
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A University Ombudsman ?

We publish a request sent to fellow candidates on the creation of a University Ombudsman by Prof Wyn Evans. Any responses received before 5th July will be published without emendation. I’m honoured to stand alongside such a distinguished group of Read more…

By 21percent.org, 3 weeks20 June 2025 ago

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