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Cover-ups, cronyism, cloisters of power and the lost £1.3 billion · 57 posts

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Blog · 14 Mar 2026

The Streisand Effect Hits Oxford University

The Streisand Effect refers to the phenomenon whereby attempts to suppress information instead amplify it. For Barbra Streisand, it arose from a privacy claim over a photograph of her Malibu residence. Image 3850 (shown) of the California Coastal Records…

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Blog · 5 Mar 2026

Letter to Editor of ‘Financial Times’

Dear Editor The Financial Times’ recent ranking of the UK’s “Top 400 Employers” has been greeted with interest and puzzlement. Several results appear curious. For example, the strong performance of organisations facing well-reported financial and governance…

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Blog · 20 Feb 2026

The Cloisters of Power: Hiring at Cambridge

Dr Bernhard Fulda is a College Teaching Officer (CTO) at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is also Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History. In 2023, he applied for a permanent University Teaching Officer (UTO) position in Twentieth-Century German History in the Faculty of…

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Blog · 11 Feb 2026

Attack on Tenure at the Cambridge Vet School

Before 1988, academics in permanent posts in the UK could only be dismissed for serious wrongdoing or failure to perform their duties. This gave them strong protection comparable to tenured professors in North America. The Education…

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Blog · 9 Feb 2026

A Brutal Plot

At the University of Cambridge, higher-paid groups see larger pay increases over time, leading to ever- widening inequality. The plots show how pay departs from the University of Cambridge average across progressively smaller, higher-paid groups. The…

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Blog · 4 Feb 2026

Cambridge University and the Lost £1.3 Billion

Here, we will track the real performance of Cambridge University’s endowment over time and isolate the impact of administrative spending growth above inflation. We express values in constant 2025 pounds, taking inflation into account through CPI…

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