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Christians stand up to University bullying

Christians stand up to University bullying

As schools become converged, taken over by this bizarre hate ideology, they remove everyone who doesn’t agree to it. They’ve already locked down the faculty on campus, but that was easy to do: faculty are only too happy to write and talk about their beliefs…those who didn’t virtue signal with sufficient sycophancy were easily identified […] … learn more→

Short-term contracts harm the ‘common good’ mission of universities

Short-term contracts harm the ‘common good’ mission of universities

A new report from the Canadian Association of University Teachers has found that instead of the “attractive flexibility” university administrators use as a justification for hiring academics on short-term contracts, the reality of such contracts is that they are “discouraging and demoralizing”. Contract academics (CAS) are treated as though they do not belong in the […] … learn more→

Finishing a PhD … and starting a Masters degree?

Finishing a PhD … and starting a Masters degree?

In 2012 I was working in an independent medical research institute. Senior colleagues thought I was capable of a PhD. That level of academic achievement was somewhat mythical to me (my father never finished primary school), but it was an irresistible idea. I could spend hours with data and be called Dr. at the end […] … learn more→

Reasons to choose hotel management for a successful career

Reasons to choose hotel management for a successful career

Hotel management is a career which is in high demand today. In a different part of the world, the most prestigious and world-class hotels like dhow cruise Dubai Marina or Mardan Palace Hotel needs staff to manage its services and here are the top reasons to choose hotel management as a career. Early responsibility Hotel […] … learn more→

College course: Heterosexuality is not “natural”

College course: Heterosexuality is not “natural”

My kind readers often give me “hints” on what to write about, and I had several point me in the direction of a strange-looking course, via ZeroHedge. First let’s address the course by dissecting the course description: QUEER ECOLOGIES FALL 2018 TAUGHT BY: HEATHER DAVIS SECTION: A CRN: 7681 Credits: 4 The professor is Heather […] … learn more→

To fix higher education funding, we also need to fix vocational education

To fix higher education funding, we also need to fix vocational education

Yesterday the shadow education minister, Tanya Plibersek, announcedLabor plans to invest an additional A$174 million in the higher education sector if there’s a change of government at the next election. This extra funding would be to give first in family students, students from outer suburbs and the country, Indigenous students, and students with a disability a […] … learn more→

Black student activists face penalty in college admissions

Black student activists face penalty in college admissions

Back when I taught at a predominantly white, selective liberal arts college, I came across a book called “Acting White? Rethinking Race in ‘Post-Racial’ America.” In the book, legal scholars Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati argue that in the “post-racial” era, white-controlled organizations prefer to hire “‘good blacks’ who will think of themselves as people first […] … learn more→

Digitising the historical fight for women’s equality at Cambridge

Digitising the historical fight for women’s equality at Cambridge

Two small boxes in the department of archives and modern manuscripts at Cambridge University Library contain a few pieces of detritus from an extraordinary afternoon in Cambridge in 1897. That day, crowds of undergraduates gathered to protest against a change in ordinances that would allow women to be granted degrees and membership of the university. […] … learn more→