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- UK students launch Barclays ‘career boycott’ over bank’s climate policies Wed, 27 Dec 23, 6:55pmCampaign at leading universities such as Oxbridge and UCL warns lender it will miss out on top talent if it finances fossil fuels
- The fall of Academia: half of US companies are reducing requirements for Bachelors degrees Tue, 5 Dec 23, 6:46amImage by Donna Kirby from Pixabay By Jo Nova University degrees aren’t what they used to be After years of universities turning out smug self-obsessed graduates of Woke ideology, Big Business has realized they might...
- UK universities take £40m in fossil fuel funding since 2022 Wed, 4 Oct 23, 8:00pmFoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest
- UK universities take £41m in fossil fuel funding since 2022 Wed, 4 Oct 23, 8:00pmFoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest
- New Zealand might adopt new “UN-type” science curriculum without physics and chemistry Mon, 10 Jul 23, 4:52pmBy Jo Nova Apparently some New Zealand officials are toying with a whole new science curriculum which sounds like a return to the stone age. All the hard stuff about electromagnetism, elements, mass, motion, and molecular...
- University Experts say climate change causes Earthquakes. Let’s stop quakes with solar panels then? Thu, 16 Feb 23, 6:36amBy TheMartian By Jo Nova Blame Exxon for the dead children of Turkey, eh? It’s not the corrupt building codes, the crustal plates, or the solar magnetic field...
- Wokeness trains young minds to be victims Tue, 17 Jan 23, 5:48amSomeone who knows what life in a poor country and what having children means explains why Woke Culture has gone too far to young people at the Oxford Union.
- There’s an exodus of smart men from US universities Thu, 29 Dec 22, 8:01amThe oldest university in Europe has been running since 1088AD.
- Most UK universities failing to hit carbon reduction targets Tue, 6 Dec 22, 6:00pmCampaign group calls for institutions to be accountable via short-term assessments after 59% missed goals
- 100 UK universities pledge to divest from fossil fuels Thu, 27 Oct 22, 8:00pmExclusive: move affecting 65% of institutions means endowments worth almost £18bn out of reach for firms
- Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics Mon, 21 Mar 22, 6:00pmOpen letter from 500 academics likens fossil-energy funding of climate solutions to tobacco industry disinformation
- Peter Ackers obituary Wed, 16 Mar 22, 6:54amMy father, Peter Ackers, who has died aged 97, was a civil engineer and an expert in hydraulics. He worked on projects all over the world, involving hydropower, tidal energy, coastal protection, reservoir spillways and other...
- UK universities took £89m from oil firms in last four years Sun, 12 Dec 21, 12:00amAnger after investigation finds Imperial College London, Cambridge and Oxford among institutions to have accepted funding
- First Australian Covid Vax, approved overseas, but instead of a medal, we sack Prof Petrovsky Thu, 4 Nov 21, 7:15amWe’re sacking Vaccine Professors for not taking the right vaccine? Who knew? The first traditional vaccine for Covid that’s based on protein anywhere in the world has been approved for use...
- First Australian Covid Vax, approved overseas, but instead of a medal, we sack Prof Petrovsky instead Thu, 4 Nov 21, 7:15amWe’re sacking Vaccine Professors for not taking the right vaccine? Who knew? The first traditional vaccine for Covid that’s based on protein anywhere in the world has been approved for use...