Nanny Displays a Rare Degree of Common Sense

 

Nanny, in a rare display of common sense, is considering plans for a minimum entry requirement for university. Students without English and maths GCSEs, or two grade Es at A-level, would not be able to attend university in England.

Suffice to say universities are bleating that this caps aspirations and is bad for individuals, the economy and society.

The universities are wrong, if you do not have a basic grasp of the "three Rs" how the hell can you cope and prosper (academically and intellectually) in university?

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Prats of The Week - The Middle Common Room Magdalen College Oxford

Dear oh dear, who would have thought that what was once one of the best universities in the world would end up as a breeding ground for utter prattery?

I refer of course to the decision by the students of the Middle Common Room of Magdalen College Oxford to remove the portrait of The Queen from their room, lest it offends someone.

The students there have every right to hang pictures of whatever they wish on their walls (eg Rhodes), and have every right to remove a picture of the Queen.

However, the reasons they chose to remove the picture (ie that it might "offend" someone because of issues to do with the days of empire) are feeble-minded to say the least.

1 The Queen came to the throne when Britain was already dismantling her empire.

2 The Queen is the head of state.

3 Monarchs have had connections to Oxford for centuries.

4 If you are offended by a picture of the head of state then seek therapy.

Simply put, if that is the best intellectual argument they can come up with then Oxford needs to radically overhaul its admissions policy; because it is clear that they are currently admitting feeble-minded idiots!

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Nanny Bans CAPITALS

Lecturers in the journalism department at Leeds Trinity University have been not to use all caps when communicating with students because it might make them too scared to do the assignment.

“Despite our best attempts to explain assessment tasks, any lack of clarity can generate anxiety and even discourage students from attempting the assessment at all,” states a memo that the lecturers received, according to The Express. “Generally, avoid using capital letters for emphasis and the overuse of ‘do’, and, especially, ‘DON’T.’”

SO REMEMBER EVERYONE, CAPITALS ARE SCARY!!!

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Students Favour Conformity Over Free Speech

The Times reports that fewer than half of students consistently support freedom of speech and two fifths favour censorship and no-platforming of controversial speakers, research has shown.

A “culture of conformity” may also be having an effect on undergraduates, who are often too intimidated to espouse unpopular views on campus, according to a report by the think tank Policy Exchange.

It is disheartening, to say the least, that those who are at university favour closing their minds to ideas that they consider "controversial".

The report recommends that Universities should:

1. Adopt an academic freedom commitment, such as the Chicago Principles, that clearly states that ‘debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed’.

2. Appoint an Academic Freedom Champion (AFC), reporting directly to the Vice-Chancellor, with the power to investigate complaints of political discrimination across the Higher Education Institution (HEI), and to recommend actions as appropriate.

A closed mind sees nothing!

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Nanny's War on Meat Has Begun - Fight Back!

 

As I noted the other day:

"The UN issued a report yesterday that noted meat has a role to play in global warming, but it went on to say that "animal-sourced food produced in resilient, sustainable & low-GHG emission systems present major opportunities for adaptation & mitigation while generating significant co-benefits in terms of human health".

The media and cult leaders have spun it that we should eat less meat/no meat at all!"

Unsurprisingly Nanny's acolytes have sprung into action, step forward Goldsmiths, University of London, which is removing all beef products from sale.

The college's new head, Prof Frances Corner, said: 

"The growing global call for organisations to take seriously their responsibilities for halting climate change is impossible to ignore.

Though I have only just arrived at Goldsmiths, it is immediately obvious that our staff and students care passionately about the future of our environment and that they are determined to help deliver the step change we need to cut our carbon footprint drastically and as quickly as possible."

If the students really are that impassioned about the environment, and truly believe that eating burgers destroys the environment, why did you need to ban them?

Surely the students would have simply stopped eating them?
 
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NUS Continues With its Tradition of Electing Idiots

As per the Telegraph, the incoming president of the National Union of Students has said that she wanted to “oppress  white people” and have an “Islamic takeover”.

Zamzam Ibrahim, 24, from Greater Manchester, also described the Government’s counter-extremism strategy as “disastrous” and “racist”.

Using the hastag #IfIWasPresident, she wrote on Twitter in 2012: “I’d oppress white people just to give them a taste of what they put us through!” She signed off the message by writing “LMFAO”, which in urban slang is short for “Laughing My Fucking Arse Off”.

Responding to questions online about what book everyone should read, she said: “The Quraan. We would have an Islamic takeover!”

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Emily Dawes Resigns - Finally!

Loyal readers will recall the furore caused by the ignorant bigot Emily Dawes (at that time President of Southampton University Students Union) who called for the destruction of the Rothenstein Mural at Southampton University.

Finally, after a disgraceful delay, she has resigned.

Students’ Union President Emily Dawes has decided to stand down with immediate effect.
We respect Emily’s decision and will continue to provide her with support. The University will continue to work closely with the Students’ Union, the elected team and staff. Full statement: pic.twitter.com/Yas7rLXkyK

— University of Southampton (@unisouthampton) November 19, 2018

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Emily Dawes "On Leave" From £20K Per Annum Student Job

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Ignorant Bigot Emily Dawes Issues Insincere Apology and Deletes Twitter Account

Emily Dawes who called for the destruction of the Rothenstein Mural at Southampton University has issued an insincere apology and deleted her twitter account.

Here is her "apology" as per Guido Fawkes:

It is not genuine because, as you see, she linked the proposed vandalism to Armistice Day!

The insincere apology and deletion of her Twitter account is not enough, she should resign.

Here is the petition to sack her.

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Nanny Bans The Rothenstein Mural

The Rothenstein Mural was painted in 1916 as a memorial to members of the British universities serving in the Great War.

Painted in 1916 by Sir William Rothenstein, former Principal of the Royal College of Art, and measuring approximately 10ft X 40ft, the mural was first displayed at the 11th Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the Royal Academy in the autumn of 1916.

It depicts an academic procession and the conferring of a degree on an ‘unknown soldier' undergraduate by the then Chancellor of Cambridge University.

Presented to the University of Southampton in 1959, by the artist's son, Sir John Rothenstein, the work represents a unique piece of art history. It features many key academics from the era of the Great War, including Vice-Chancellors and Chancellors, and the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges.
In his book "Men and Memories", Sir William Rothenstein told how the idea for the mural came to him. He called it "The New Chivalry":

"I happened to be at Oxford where I witnessed the conferring of degrees . . . The sight of a number of youths, booted and spurred, with their gowns over their khaki, kneeling before the Chancellor to receive their degrees, put me in mind of the age of chivalry, so touching and beautiful were these young figures; and I thought what a fine subject for a memorial painting this would make . . . I therefore painted a group of representative figures, Vice-Chancellors, scholars and men of science surrounding a Chancellor conferring a degree upon a young soldier."

The mural currently hangs in the Senate Room of the University of Southampton.

Unfortunately certain ignorant people don't like it, because it shows white people.

Step forward Emily Dawes President of the Union:

Mark my words - we're taking down the mural of white men in the uni Senate room, even if I have to paint over it myself

— Emily, Union Pres (@SotonPres) October 24, 2018

Feel free to enlighten her from her ignorant bigoted state!

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Educashun - Less is More!

In an age where every academic institution is called a "university" and every person leaving school is expected to have a "degree" in order to flip burgers, don't be surprised that student debt is so high.

For why?

They have to pay for yacht owning vice chancellors, as per the FT:

"Prof Holmes, vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton, who drives a vintage Bentley Continental, also has a 30ft yacht moored on Windermere and believes academics should not hide their wealth. 

“I have had a very successful career. I hope students use their education to get a good job and then they can have a Bentley. Do you want to be taught by someone who is successful or a failure?” he said. 

Prof Holmes’ taste for luxury is partly funded through an inheritance from his father, a property developer, but he also earned £222,120 in 2016, up from £202,500 the year before."

I am so old that I remember a time when there weren't so many universities, nor students and zero student debt (apart from the debt between parent and student!); because there weren't university fees, and students were awarded a means tested grant.

Less is more!

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Student Learns That University Is Not Just Book Learning But Life Too

I am an actual state someone help pic.twitter.com/160mC5j9I4

— Natalie Smith (@natalie5mith) May 7, 2017

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Nanny Bans Whooping

I appreciate that some students do not have the brains that they were allegedly gifted with. However, even this piece of student fuckwittery has surprised me.

The Telegraph reports that students who whoop, cheer and clap should face “consequences” because they are excluding deaf people, delegates at the National Union of Students conference said.

Audience members were repeatedly warned that they must cease whooping to express support for a speaker, because it has a “serious impact” on the accessibility of the conference.

Delegates at the NUS annual conference in Brighton were encouraged to use “jazz hands” instead of clapping - where students wave their hands in the air - as this is deemed a more inclusive form of expression.

Estelle Hart, an NUS elections committee member who was chairing a session on Thursday, told students: “No whooping, it does have a serious impact on some delegates ability to access conference.”

For good measure Shelly Asquith, the NUS vice president for welfare, returned to the theme, telling delegates: “We’ve had a number of requests that people stop whooping”.

The Durham University student union proposed a motion at the conference that would see clapping and whooping banned at all future NUS events.

Two points:

1 Surely talking/speaking also "excludes" deaf people. Shall we ban that as well?

2 Jazz hands cannot be seen by the visually impaired, that should be banned too.

God help us is this is the quality of the generation destined to takeover in the coming years!


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The Snowflakes at Berkeley

I see that the snowflakes at the University of California at Berkeley are a little confused over the difference between legitimate peaceful protest, and mindless destruction, violence and vandalism!

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The Dangers of Caffeine

As per the Telegraph, commiserations to the two students were nearly killed after they were given enough caffeine for 300 cups of coffee during a botched science experiment.

Northumbria University has been fined £400,000 for the incident in March 2015 which caused Alex Rossetto and Luke Parkin to be rushed to hospital and put on dialysis.

The pair had volunteered to take part in a test aiming to measure the effect of caffeine on exercise, but a basic calculation error meant the second-year students were given 100 times the correct dosage.

Prosecutor Adam Farrer told Newcastle Crown Court that the pair should have been given 0.3g of caffeine in the orange juice mix, but were in fact given 30g.

There is 0.1g in the average cup of coffee.

Newcastle Crown Court heard the calculation had been done on a mobile phone, the decimal point being put in the wrong place and there being no risk assessment for the test.

Given all the health and safety/risk BS we are force fed every day, I am more than "puzzled" as to how an institution of academic excellence managed not only to put the decimal point in the wrong place, but also didn't think to apply common sense wrt the dosage before giving it to the hapless students!

Will Nanny ban caffeine then, given that it is clearly dangerous?

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Snowflakes Ban Plato

Oh dear, I see that so called "higher education" is attracting more and more intolerant idiots.

The student snowflake union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has got its collective knickers in a twist over the contents of of courses that deal with philosophy. It seems that that figures such as Plato, Descartes and Immanuel Kant are offensive to the snowflakes.

For why?

Coz they is white!


The snowflakes in the union insist that when studying philosophy “the majority of philosophers on our courses” should be from Africa and Asia.

The snowflakes claim this is part of their wider campaign to “decolonise” the university, as it seeks to “address the structural and epistemological legacy of colonialism”.

Unsurprisingly, more intelligent people have think that this is bollocks. Sir Roger Scruton, the philosopher, said the demands suggest “ignorance”.

He is quoted by the Telegraph:

“You can't rule out a whole area of intellectual endeavour without having investigated it and clearly they haven't investigated what they mean by white philosophy.

If they think there is a colonial context from which Kant's Critique of Pure Reason arose, I would like to hear it."

Unfortunately, Sir Roger's reasoning may well be ignored, even so called "educated" people (or those who seek to be "educated") can be remarkably bigoted and cretinous.

Oh and by the way, in 2014 Nathan P. Gilmour (Associate Professor of English and Composition Culture Director, Emmanuel College Cambridge) wrote an article pointing out that Plato was not in fact "white".

"That’s what’s insidious about declaring Plato “White” too easily: such a move threatens to obscure the contingency of history, in which the man Plato was not “White” because that term takes its twenty-first-century meaning not from skin-coloring but from a centuries-long (but not THAT many centuries!) narrative of Capitalist-formed human slavery, nationalist-based empire-building, and–I grant this point–attempts to co-opt texts like those of Homer and Euripides and Plato as parts of a “Western Canon,” a movement that claims them as part of a project of “civilization” undeniably tied up in the story of how northern and western Europeans became “White” as opposed to the Asian and African and American tribes over whom they won military supremacy."

Maybe the snowflakes should read that first beofre unleashing their 21st century prejudices on a long dead philosopher.

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Brexit Stress Counselling For Snowflakes

FFS!

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City University Students' Union Displays Complete Knobheadery

Kudos to the students’ union of City University in London for displaying knobheadery beyond belief.

It transpires that the union does not like The Sun, Daily Mail and Express newspapers.

As such the union has decreed that these titles be banned from the campus.

Disregarding the fact that we live in a "freeish" country, where we have the right to read the newspaper of our choice, the students have also made a rather fundamental error wrt their ban?

Can you guess what that is children?

Yes, that's right, there are no retail outlets for newspapers on the campus!

Knobheads!

Ironically City University has one of the biggest journalism departments in the UK with a variety of post graduate and undergraduate journalism courses available.

They might care to remember what Heinrich Heine once wrote:

"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

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Snowflakes Offered Optional Exams To Ease Shock of Trump Victory

Students are being triggered across the nation tonight and so one Yale Economics professor has taken a stand to protect the special snowflakes are they wrote him expressing shock over the outcome of the presidential election... by making their exams optional.



Source ZeroHedge
 
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Nanny Tries To Ban The National Anthem

Oh dear I see some student Nanny from Kings College London has got his knickers in a twist over our 250 year old national anthem.

Mahamed Abdullahi, the vice president for welfare and community at King’s College London, has called for it to be immediately axed from official services at the university because it was “outdated” and “just a bit shit”.

Fellow students wrote to Abdullahi suggesting that he “respect the traditions of the university and the country in which we study”.

In a post on social media, Abdullahi quoted by the Telegraph said:

“Hey guys, I want to get rid of the national anthem at graduation because it’s outdated and not reflective of the ‘global’ values that the college espouses.

In the context of increasing far Right nationalism across Europe and the legacy of the British empire, it’s just a bit shit and it doesn’t even bang. Basically, fuck the nation state.”

James Findon, created an online petition in response to Abdullahi’s post.

“We, the undersigned, believe that the National Anthem should stay as an important tradition at our graduation ceremonies.” 

It was quickly backed by hundreds of signatures on Sunday afternoon.

Nice to see that not every student is infected with pcitis!

That said, I personally prefer Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory. However, I suspect the university might find those songs a wee bit "dated".

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