A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Cambridge University raised £150 million in 2022-2023 from gifts and donations. Such money must be used to support our core mission of teaching and research, as described in the pledges below. Many parts (~80 %) of…
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Lord Browne is an inappropriate choice for the Chancellorship of Cambridge University for four reasons: The possible election of Lord Browne to the Chancellorship raises concerns about risk of damage to the reputation of the University…
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The question every Vice Chancellor dreads is: How much do you get paid? A textbook case in what not to do is given by Sir Peter Mathieson, the Principal and Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh University. He…