A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
Very tragic news has broken about the death of Jason Arday. Whatever mistakes you may have made, and whatever controversies surrounded you, your life was worth more than the way it was ultimately treated. You were placed in situations where others appeared…
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There are good articles in The Telegraph here and the Times here today. The 21 Group has some sympathy for the Vice Chancellor over the Jason Arday fiasco because the appointment happened before she arrived (though…
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The Vice Chancellor’s recent statement was first sent as a pdf to selected colleagues. The pdf metadata show the pdf was created by Sally Valletta from a Word document owned by Sally Valletta generated on 11…
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The ‘Cover-up University’ goes for broke. We have seen one of the biggest scandals in the history of Cambridge University. The appointment of Jason Arday was misjudged. By itself, this was poor, but not a scandal.…
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Recent revelations in The Telegraph have taken us to the heart of the scandal As the Times Higher Education (THE) prepared to publish a story on plagiarism and research misconduct in September 2025, the journalist Jack…
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The controversy surrounding Jason Arday now extends across multiple institutions and is causing significant damage to confidence in UK higher education. At a time when universities face intense financial pressures and increasing political scrutiny, public trust…
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There are now articles in the Daily Mail, The Times, the Telegraph and the Independent. The most damaging new facts are as follows. The Times Higher Education journalist Jack Grove was working on a story about…
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Andrew Gelman is Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University. He’s famous for his book (co-authored with others) on Bayesian Data Analysis. His substack has tackled the emerging scandal at Cambridge University here, comparing…
