Prince of Wales settles in at Cambridge university – archive, 9 Oct 1967

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Admin

9 October 1967: The Prince, who is reading archaeology, was greeted by 1,000 sightseers who had gathered outside the Great Gate

The arrival of Prince Charles at Cambridge yesterday to start his university career had all the appearances of a welcome given to a “pop” star.

Prince Charles, who will be 19 next month, was driven in a bright red mini to the gates of Trinity, where he will be for two years, and was immediately screamed and shouted at by more than 1,000 sightseers who had gathered outside the Great Gate.

The words of greeting from Lord Butler, Master of Trinity, were drowned by the cries of well-wishers, and the Prince, together with the Master and his senior tutor shot into Trinity Great Court as the college porters heaved the Great Gate shut against the crush of people outside.

US academic given two weeks to leave UK after eight years

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Admin

Visa system for researchers is hostile and costly and risks jamming a pipeline of talent, universities warn

After eight years researching music history at Glasgow University, Elizabeth Ford hoped her request for a visa extension would sail through this summer. Instead, the Home Office gave the American academic two weeks to pack up her life and leave the country.

Ford has held a research fellowship at Edinburgh University – which, like Glasgow is in the elite Russell Group – and is due to begin a new research fellowship at Oxford University. But this is in jeopardy after a letter from the Home Office in July, which said that her leave to remain, granted a year before, was erroneous, and that she must leave within two weeks.

Hong Kong students boycott classes as Chinese media warns ‘end is coming’

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Admin

School and university students call for democracy after weekend of violent clashes

Thousands of students in Hong Kong have boycotted the first day of the new term in a fresh wave of protests, after a tense weekend of violent clashes between police and demonstrators.

On Monday, university and secondary students marked the end of their summer break by skipping classes and holding rallies to call on the government to withdraw a controversial extradition bill, among other demands.

UK’s Prevent strategy ‘biggest threat to free speech on campus’

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Admin

Policy is disempowering and has chilling effect provoking self censorship, says Liberty

The Prevent strategy for curtailing extremism in the UK is the biggest threat to free speech at universities rather than media caricatures of “snowflake” students, according to a director of Liberty.

Corey Stoughton, director of advocacy at the human rights organisation, said the tactics of the strategy for monitoring campus activism had a “chilling effect” on black and Muslim students, provoking self censorship for fear of being labelled extremist.

The Venezuela uprising: the story so far – podcast

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Admin

Nicolás Maduro appeared on the brink of being forced from power in an uprising plotted by the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó. But key figures stayed loyal, allowing the president to begin reprisals. Tom Phillips in Caracas has watched it play out. Plus: Owen Jones on public schools and who gets to go to Britain’s elite universities

Juan Guaidó described his attempted uprising last month as the “final phase” of his plan to oust Nicolás Maduro. But after a day of chaos and confusion in which Guaidó’s mentor, Leopoldo López, was sprung from house arrest, the Venezuelan president was still in power and many of the plotters had gone into hiding.

The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, is in Caracas and describes to Anushka Asthana the sense of defiance among supporters of Maduro, and Guaidó’s mood of optimism in an exclusive Guardian interview.

Canadiens and Canadiennes in uproar as student paper takes stand on gender

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Admin

A publication at the Université du Québec is ceasing to favour masculine over feminine in its language – not everyone is happy

The changes were slight, though Molière probably wouldn’t have approved.

Montreal Campus – the student newspaper serving Université du Québec à Montréal – announced in February that it would cease favouring the masculine over the feminine.

‘The magic of llamas’: furry friends help stressed university students relax

Posted on May 4, 2019 by Admin

Students at UC Berkeley have an unusual way to take the edge off before final exams. The Guardian was granted exclusive access to a petting session

Final exams are approaching at one of America’s elite universities, and the atmosphere might be tense – if it weren’t for eight hairy campus visitors.

On Friday, students flocked to UC Berkeley’s Memorial Glade for Llamapalooza, a human-llama social occasion on a sunny campus lawn. The eight animals were scattered throughout the crowd, munching grass while the adoring masses petted, fed and photographed them under the supervision of trained student volunteers.

College bribery scandal: professors respond to our anonymous column

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Admin

We published one professor’s account of student entitlement, and the response from readers was enormous. Here, we share replies from other educators

What happens after rich kids bribe their way into college? I teach them

“If you think corruption in elite US college admissions is bad, what happens once those students are in the classroom is even worse,” wrote an anonymous professor in the Guardian this week.

Greek tragedy prompts ‘blackface’ racism row at Sorbonne

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Admin

Protesters picket French university, which says actors were wearing masks according to ancient theatre practices

A row over alleged racism and attacks on freedom of expression has erupted in France after students prevented a Greek tragedy featuring actors using black masks from being performed at the Sorbonne, claiming it was “Afrophobic, colonialist and racist”.

Demonstrators who picketed the prestigious Paris university to stop actors entering the theatre said the play, The Suppliants by Aeschylus, was being performed with blackface and was offensive.

Erasmus scheme in chaos as UK students left in limbo

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Admin

The 17,000 students about to do a year abroad face huge uncertainty over funding and accommodation

For Alice Watkins, a Manchester University student, a year in Paris, then Madrid, as part of her degree was a dream. Now, with the turmoil of Brexit, she is preparing to arrive in France this summer with nowhere to live and no idea whether the money will still be there to support her.

“It’s horrible not knowing,” Watkins says. “We’ve been told to take at least £1,200 of our own cash to cover us for the first six weeks, and that we can’t realistically sort any accommodation before we arrive. Turning up abroad with nowhere to live is a big stress.”

Record numbers from China and Hong Kong applying to study in UK

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Admin

Chinese and Hongkonger university applicants now outnumber those from Wales

Record numbers of students from China and Hong Kong are applying for places at British universities, overtaking the number of applicants from Wales, according to official figures.

Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) shows a spike in demand for undergraduate places from mainland China and a small rise in applications from the EU, despite fears over Brexit.

Women ‘terrified’ as students allowed to return after rape messages

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Admin

Men allowed back on campus early after University of Warwick reduces suspension

Women discussed as rape targets by a group of male students at the University of Warwick say they are terrified of seeing the men return to campus after the university reduced the length of their suspension.

Last year five men were barred or suspended by the university over their membership of a long-running group chat that discussed rape and sexual assault of women, including individual students, as well as racism, antisemitism and homophobia.

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Category Archives: Universities

Prince of Wales settles in at Cambridge university – archive, 9 Oct 1967

US academic given two weeks to leave UK after eight years

Hong Kong students boycott classes as Chinese media warns ‘end is coming’

UK’s Prevent strategy ‘biggest threat to free speech on campus’

The Venezuela uprising: the story so far – podcast

Canadiens and Canadiennes in uproar as student paper takes stand on gender

‘The magic of llamas’: furry friends help stressed university students relax

College bribery scandal: professors respond to our anonymous column

Greek tragedy prompts ‘blackface’ racism row at Sorbonne

Erasmus scheme in chaos as UK students left in limbo

Record numbers from China and Hong Kong applying to study in UK

Women ‘terrified’ as students allowed to return after rape messages