A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
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Let’s take five while we await the outcome of a (Professor at a) prominent University’s Carter-Rucking the UK media (or in Private Eye parlance, Carter-Fucking) On an earlier thread, the poster called ‘TheResearcher’ made an intriguing…
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Extraordinary events are unfolding at a Newspaper. A hugely damaging story about Consigliere University is about to be published. The Vice Chancellor of Consigliere University sanctions its silencing. The Editor of the Newspaper calls his CEO…
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Accusations of plagiarism are damaging to famous universities. As Richard Posner in The Little Book of Plagiarism notes, an author’s name “establishes a brand identity . . . in the market for expressive goods.” In contemporary…
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University HR departments are facing the end of times. Longstanding practice has been to lie, dissemble and cover up. This reduces most victims to pulp. In a small minority of cases, the victim takes external action.…
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The Dean of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, Prof Soumitra Dutta, has resigned after three years in the role. According to Bloomberg, an investigation upheld three harassment policy breaches reported by a female academic. Prof Dutta’s name…
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The 21 Group runs an occasional series on the fictional doings of the Masters of the Colleges. Readers may remember the controversial election of Kerris Bowles-Ottery as Master at St Judas, as well as a spot…
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The University of Limerick (UL) has been busy writing its own comic verse. The foxes were guarding the pen,Investigating their own sins again,Conflicts ran rife,As Transparency’s knife,Was blunted by paper and pen. At the centre of…
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Over the past five years, the culture of Cambridge University has deteriorated substantially, as judged by the numbers of Data Subject Access Requests. These are often used by individuals in dispute with the University. They are…