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Prof. Catherine Flick (catherineflick@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 00:19:34 JST Prof. Catherine Flick

Ah yes “respect for the academic tradition”, that’s what we should be prioritising over EDI, more like “respect for the backward opinions of old white men in academia for whom the advent of EDI is the first time they’ve ever been challenged on their prejudices”.
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1. Diversity obsession is destroying universities, says Cambridge don Nicola Woolcock Education Editor Universities are being destroyed from within by lecturers embracing equality. diversity and inclusion, a Cambridge professor has said. Professor John Marenbon, a fellow of the British Academy, says ideologically driven academics are policing one another with sinister ideology rather than having views imposed on them by managers. Writing for Politeia, a think tank, he says universities should aim to be exclu- shared with The Times, he cites strate- gies published by universities. Edin- the EDI complex so thoroughly pene- trates university thinking and research or who are not up to their vocation as instructors or researchers, but those diversity promoted should be that of viewpoint.
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