In higher education, diversity first emerged as a desirable value. It then became a dogma. On campuses, it has finally turned into a veritable industry. A new report on the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), titled ‘Diversity University: DEI Bloat in the Academy’ provides compelling evidence that the …
Read More »Arizona governor BANS public universities from demanding students get Covid-19 vaccines, wear masks in class
“The vaccine works, and we encourage Arizonans to take it. But it is a choice and we need to keep it that way,” Ducey said on Tuesday, announcing the order. “Public education is a public right, and taxpayers are paying for it. We need to make our public universities available …
Read More »Wait, American universities are ‘right-wing institutions’? Does Teen Vogue publish facts or fairy tales?
That’s what University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Asheesh Kapur Siddique argued in a Teen Vogue feature published on Wednesday. If you thought Teen Vogue was about fast fashion and kissing tips for adolescent girls, dispense with that idea before diving in. The mag has taken a bizarre turn into identitarian …
Read More »Ivy League universities accused of desecration after using bones of black children killed by police in anthropology course
The controversy was sparked by a recent op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer which demanded an apology and “reparations” from the Penn Museum, an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania, for keeping the bones of one, and possibly two, children who were killed by police …
Read More »Parents want kids to ditch degrees & learn a trade. They’re right, universities teach nothing except how to be woke
If you can lay bricks or cut hair, you’ll always be able to work, so long as buildings keep going up and hair keeps growing. Youngsters shouldn’t rule out being an undertaker either. Death is the one certainty of life. Plumber. Carpenter. Electrician. Roofer. Brewer. Welder. Scaffolder. Fisherman. Butcher. The …
Read More »Proposed UK law allowing deplatformed speakers to sue universities is turning free speech from universal right to legal privilege
If you were a visitor from Mars arriving in the UK today, you could be excused for believing that there was something progressive about the UK government legislating to enable no-platformed academics, students or visiting speakers to sue universities for compensation where they feel they have suffered because of free …
Read More »Racial segregation at US universities is back, with the advent of black-only dormitories. Martin Luther King would be appalled
Racial segregation is a really bad idea. So it is not surprising that advocates of identity politics are demanding that black-only dormitories should be established on American campuses. The Washington Square News, the undergraduate students’ paper of New York University (NYU), recently reported that the university was willing to “help …
Read More »Scoops entrenched in our Universities.
So, friends — today will be a very interesting and long-planned me post about the scoop that entrenched in our Universities and did not want to leave their position, glancing out at the surrounding enemy nation because of the parapet of the Iron curtain. We will focus on Belarus, Russia …
Read More »For two years tuition at universities increased by 25-45%
In just two years the cost of education at some University majors increased by 25-45 percent. Asked the Ministry of education, what is the reason for such significant growth. Photo: Olga Shukailo, TUT.BY For example, in 2017, the first year of study at the faculty of computer systems and networks …
Read More »The Ministry of education announced new rules of admission to Universities
The office approved list of exams which have to pass applicants. This year, unlike the previous one, the Ministry of education and science made clear to the universities what should be expected from the applicant the certificates for admission to each specialty. Last year the universities decide it yourself, but …
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