The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2024

Some say it’s ageist, and they have a point. But whether in academia or elsewhere, it’s only fair for younger colleagues Mary Beard is an author, an honorary fellow of Newnham College and former professor of classics at Cambridge University What is a “good” and “useful” old age, and how do we ensure it? Ageism is currently one of British culture’s biggest muddles.

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HEPI

JUNE 29, 2024

This weekend piece was kindly authored by Fiona Christie (X: @FCChristie), Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University; Emma Pollard at the Institute for Employment Studies; and Gill Frigerio (X: @GillFrigerio), Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. The National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) is hosting a conference this Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd July; you can sign up here.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2024

As an aging college professor, I found myself in a surprising position on the evening of May 1: face down in the grass of the Dartmouth College Green, with a heavily armored riot policeman kneeling on my lower back, and three others holding me immobile. Police wrenched my arms painfully behind me as they roughly tightened plastic zip ties on my wrist that cut sharply into my skin.

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