Iran releases videos showing Kylie Moore-Gilbert and her Israeli husband claiming the pair are SPIES and taunting them with intimate wedding pictures after her release from two years in hellhole jail Kylie Moore-Gilbert was released from Iranian prison last week after two years Videos online claim the Australian academic and her husband are spies Dr Moore-Gilbert … Read more
British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has spoken for the first time after her two-year prison stint in Iran. She was released in exchange for three Iranians held abroad, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported today. ‘I would like to thank the Australian government and in particular the Australian Foreign Ministry and Australian Embassy in Tehran who have … Read more
British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is released by Iran in prisoner swap, two years after she was jailed Kylie Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to ten years in Tehran’s Evin Prison in 2018 She was jailed for espionage and was freed in exchange for three jailed Iranians Moore-Gilbert was a Melbourne University lecturer on Middle Eastern studies By Associated … Read more
Racism and discrimination exist in UK because Britons don’t ‘wholly understand’ nation’s slave trade history, says National Trust academic National Trust published report on links between slavery and Trust properties Rita McLean is chair of a group examining how to act upon the findings In 2007 Ms McLean said: ‘A lot of the problems in society … Read more
It may be difficult to predict how well a student will perform academically, but a new innovation can do so just by looking at their tweets – and with more than 93 percent accuracy. A computer model trained on thousands of test scores and one million social media posts to distinguishing between high academic achievers … Read more
Finn Kitson, 19, was found dead at halls of residence at the University of Manchester A teenage university student, who is the son of a leading Cambridge academic, died in his halls of residence after suffering with ‘severe anxiety’ during a campus ‘lockdown’, his family say. The 19-year-old student, named by his family as Finn … Read more
A teenage university student, who is the son of a leading Cambridge academic, died in his halls of residence after suffering with ‘severe anxiety’ during a campus ‘lockdown’, his family say. The 19-year-old student, named by his family as Finn Kitson, was found dead at halls of residence at the University of Manchester. His death, … Read more
The daughter of a holocaust survivor is suing an academic who claimed her mother had a lesbian relationship with an SS guard. Dr Anna Hájková, associate professor of modern continental history at Warwick University, reportedly named the two women last year and said they had had a sexual relationship. In April of this year, a … Read more
Long Covid could become a bigger public health issue than excess deaths, academic warns, as figures show 10 per cent of coronavirus patients suffer symptoms for more than a month after infection Survey by King’s College shows 10 per cent had Covid symptoms 30 days later Report from college shows women in 40s were most … Read more
US academic is suspended for using the Chinese word for ‘um’ because it sounded like a racial slur Greg Patton lectured on use of ‘filler words’ at University of Southern California He mentioned the Chinese expression ‘neige’ (pronounced ‘nee-gah’) He was placed on administrative leave while the university ‘review the situation’ By Caroline Graham In … Read more