Scholar fires sex harrassment row

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Mary Beard has been criticised for confessing that she feels a 'wistful nostalgia' for days when young female students were more likely to be harassed and 'pawed' by male tutors. Beard, professor of classics at Cambridge University, has written of the harassment faced by students of Eduard Fraenkel, Oxford classics don, and complained that this side of his character has been omitted from all biographies of the man.

Sexual Harassment, College teachers, College faculty

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Student poll is 'not valid'

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The Government's national poll of student satisfaction in the UK has been declared invalid by leading members of the steering group that helped design it. Ivor Goddard, director-general of the Royal Statistical Society, and Harvey Goldstein, professor of statistics at Bristol University, contend that the survey did not include "essential requirements" which would safeguard against low response rates.

Surveys, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Customer satisfaction, Goddard, Ivor, Goldstein, Harvey

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Date-hungry veggies with a beed say nuts to website

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Newcastle University has withdrawn a series of essays published on its website following a campaign by vegetarians organised via an obscure dating website. The move to remove the personal webpages of Nikolas Lloyd, psychologist, following complaints of his tongue-in-cheek diatribe against vegetarianism has prompted a row over free speech.

Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Free Speech & Assembly, Freedom of speech, Vegetarianism, Civil rights

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