Academic Tenure
by Philip
Remember Michael Fennessey? Well he has kindly emailed me, pointing my newshound to a blogworthy story that is currently getting the chattering classes of New Zealand spluttering into their G and T’s. The story brings together some hot topics: academic standards, western sensibilities to Muslims. foreign students being milked as cash cows, and academic tenure (or the right of academics to hold a job for life unless there is just cause for dismissal.)
Picture the scene, a not particularly academically gifted or conscientious muslim foreign student from the Middle East requesting an extension of time to hand in her essay as her father had just died. Well this was like red rag to a bull to the lecturer concerned, a Mr Buchanan, who was sacked for sending this email back.
Leaving aside the brouhaha this case has caused, one important point appears to have been missed by the gossiping media folk, judging by his picture (and the number of typos in his email) do you think Mr Buchanan has an Alex Ferguson like fondness for a wee dram? Or is it Alan Curbishley moonlighting pre-season?
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