- Education too Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on September 8, 2020, 1:05 pm
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Higher education in the UK is morally bankrupt. I’m taking my family and my research millions, and I’m off Ulf Schmidt https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/08/higher-education-in-the-uk-is-morally-bankrupt-im-taking-my-family-and-my-research-millions-and-im-off Education is seen as a commodity. 'After 25 years I feel Britain has broken my trust. I’m one of many academics who now see their future in Europe Tue 8 Sep 2020 As academics in England prepare for their strange new semester, I have been making the most of the familiar countryside of the idyllic North Downs in Kent. This summer, the picnics and the walks have been bittersweet: after more than 25 years in the UK, I am leaving to take up a professorship at Hamburg University in Germany. Why am I am going back to the country of my birth? England no longer feels like home. Instead, since the Brexit vote of 2016, I have felt like a “leaver” in a waiting hall. Now I am going, and the emotional cost will take a long time to come to terms with.' Johnson and his cabal must go. We've had Enough of the Tories over 10 years which feel more like several decades. Cameron/Clegg 2010-2015 Cameron 2015-2016 May 2016-2019 Johnson 24 July 2019 to date |
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