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Cambridge University seeks deal with Saudi defence ministry despite rights concerns

11 May at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’

Cambridge University’s business school is seeking to provide “leadership development” and “innovation management” to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry despite concerns over its government’s record on human rights and climate change, the Guardian has learned.

Cambridge’s leadership...

‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable?

10 May at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act

The six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, scarcely three years old, stands suddenly...

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

10 May at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader...

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

09 May at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

More than 120...

Sexual harassment more than twice as prevalent at England’s top universities, analysis finds

08 May at 16:39 PM, via The Guardian

Harassment reported by 35% of students at ‘high tariff’ institutions compared with 17% at those with lowest entry grades

Students at England’s leading universities were more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than those at “lower tariff” institutions, according to analysis.

Data from a national survey of undergraduates shows that 35% of students at “high tariff”...

Liberia: Cuaaa Breaks Ground for Agape Clinic At Cuttington University

08 May at 12:51 PM, via AllAfrica

[FrontPageAfrica] Suakoko — The Cuttington University Alumni Association in the Americas on Thursday broke ground for the construction of the Agape Clinic at Cuttington University’s main campus in Suakoko, marking what officials described as a significant step toward strengthening healthcare delivery for students and surrounding communities.

Historic Oxford cinema under threat as Oriel College refuses to extend lease

07 May at 19:54 PM, via The Guardian

The Ultimate Picture Palace opened in 1911 and is housed in a Grade II-listed building which is in need of renovation

The survival of one of the UK’s oldest independent cinemas is under threat while its landlord, Oxford University’s Oriel College, refuses to extend its lease to allow vital renovations.

The Ultimate Picture Palace in east Oxford opened in 1911, and has entertained generations of...

Mo Farah urges against possible £120m cut to school sports in England

07 May at 18:09 PM, via The Guardian

Athlete and sport bodies call for rethink after health and education departments each propose £60m funding cuts

Mo Farah and more than 70 leading UK sporting bodies have demanded the government rethink potential £120m cuts to school sports in England, after a clash between two departments over the funding.

The Guardian reported earlier this year that the Department of Health and Social Care had...

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