A culture of immoral behaviour is thriving at our universities. But these are publicly funded institutions – and must be held to account On the face of it, ethics in academia have transformed over the past few decades – most, if not all, universities now have ethics committees to oversee the quality of research. Yet […]
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After opening up about my mental health problems, I received the help I needed to do my lecturing job well, writes Erica Crompton On an autumn afternoon in 2009, I was fired from my job as a university lecturer. I hadn’t declared my schizophrenia on an application form and this was treated as gross misconduct.
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We face a difficult choice: stay away in solidarity with Muslim colleagues banned from the US or be there to lend support to critical voices The inauguration of President Trump poses a challenge to liberals inside the US and beyond; a truth brought home only too vividly by the introduction of an executive order barring
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