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ACADEMIC TRIVIA  Last week, UK universities launched Universities Week aiming to “open up a national conversation about the relevance of university research and its everyday impact on our lives.” Does anything not get a special day or even week? Do universities make a difference? Do you think governments should fund university teaching and/or research? Given this special week, my modest contribution is to promote greater understanding of academia with the following 21 bits of academic trivia: 1. The word academia stems from the ancient Greek mythological character of Akademos. 2. Founded in 1088, the University of Bologna in Italy is the world’s oldest university – see above photo. 3. American women who go to university are more likely to have oral sex than women who don’t go to university. 4. Because of the ‘war on terror’, the UK’s Home Office has the power to approve all universities that want to recruit international students and universities have the legal duty to inform the Home Office of students who don’t attend classes or do anything suspicious. 5. The happiest countries, generally, are those countries which have the least inequalities of income. 6. There are more Chinese than UK students studying on masters courses in the UK. 7. All UK publishers have to deposit a copy of every book published at the libraries of the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, as well as the British Library. 8. May ’68, which nearly brought down the French government, started off as a student occupation protest at the Sorbonne University in Paris. 9. People who have studied at university are more likely to lie than people who haven’t studied at university. 10. Sir Alex Ferguson, the former manager of Manchester United, has recently taken up a teaching post at the Harvard University, an Ivy League university. 11. The word ‘university’ is derived from the Latin term, universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning a community of scholars. 12. All liberal democratic countries are capitalist but not all capitalist countries are liberal democratic; democracy and capitalism seem to go together. 13. Academic freedom is the belief that academics should have the freedom to teach and research what they like without pressure from external bodies, such as from economic and political elites. 14. Teaching international students at universities is one of UK’s biggest export industries; it’s worth about £17.5 billion every year. 15. After being developed by the military, the Internet spread next to universities as its libraries were already linked up together for inter-library loans. 16. Elite universities in the UK call themselves the Russell Group, because their first meetings were held in London’s Russell Hotel. 17. About half of all Chinese students who study abroad do not return to China. 18. Liberal democratic countries rarely go to war with each other. 19. The so-called Cultural Revolution in China, launched by Mao Zedong between 1966 and 1976, involved students accusing their lecturers as counter-revolutionaries; but, later in 1989, students took the lead role in the pro-democracy uprising in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square that resulted in the death of thousands of protesters at the hands of the Chinese army. 20. In the UK, more people commit suicide under a Conservative than a Labour government. 21. Academics are the world’s best lovers! Did education do anything for you? Have you ever had sex with a teacher/lecturer? If a teacher/lecturer, have you had sex with a student? I must declare an interest. I am an academic employed by a university (and have had sex with members of academia). When I tell people of my job, I get really annoyed when people say that’s just academic as in hypothetical or that I don’t live in the real world. What is the real world? Academics try to understand the world; they may be right and they may be wrong. A theory is just a potential explanation; there are good as well as bad theories. I may live in a different world, but someone is prepared to pay me a salary to be an academic. Why do I have to keep justifying my existence?!  |
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I never went to university. I started work right out of high school and retired after 37 1/2 years. I've never had sex with a teacher.
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Did education do anything for you? Yes, it upped my income by $50,000 Have you ever had sex with a teacher/lecturer? Yes and I got an A+ If a teacher/lecturer, have you had sex with a student? No I never did...I was only a professor for a few years. I did run a research lab for many years and did have sex with one of the women there.
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Do universities make a difference? Some do and some do not make a difference. I think it all depends what your are taking there.. Do you think governments should fund university teaching and/or research? for some research they are funding some projects here in Canada mostly on the medicine side. Did education do anything for you? For me I think it did in my career. I went back and got a second degree and that one was the key to my success in field of work. Have you ever had sex with a teacher/lecturer? no never.. have thought about it! If a teacher/lecturer, have you had sex with a student? no  Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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Higher education will add to my life. i intend to throw myself totally into the experience. No sex with teacher/lecturer Yet but expect to be able to answer YES within a year. An orgasm a day , makes you so much happier at work and play
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1. Universities are an essential part of our culture and economy. In their own right they employ millions in the UK alone, research projects lead to industrial revolutions, our youth are trained there for the big bad world, our arts and crafts are nurtured and encouraged in a safe but challenging environment. We could not be without further education. Lecturers continue the good work of school teachers in helping to influence the future of our youth. 2. Absolutely no question that they should. 3. In the words of CJ, I didn't get where I am today without eduaction. 4. Yes, but not someone who was lecturing to me at the time. And  
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I never went to university. I started work right out of high school and retired after 37 1/2 years. I've never had sex with a teacher.
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As far as I'm concerned, dear S, you don't have to justify your existence as a scholar/academic or a human being and it's a disgrace that anyone would require you to. Everywhere in the world the suicide rate is higher under a conservative government than a Labor government because conservative governments do not concern themselves with the welfare of individuals... The state comes first with conservatives. Universities make a difference but the quality or quantity of that difference depends upon the ability of the teachers/lecturers to disseminate the subject matter effectively to students who may have limited connection with the language that the lecture is being given in as well as the student's absorbancy of the subject matter. Just qualifying to do the course and being able to pay for the course is only half the battle. Governments that want to enrich and increase skill and potential levels in their societies should subsidise universities. Requiring that the financial burden falls upon the student or the student's families will prevent many people who could benefit humanity immensely from obtaining the essential facet of their education that could mean the difference between success and failure. Only successful people can make a truly equitable contribution to the tax system. Education has enabled me to communicate effectively with people to further enlighten others about the struggles that people with my identity issues face as well as enabling me to effectively communicate my needs to the government agencies that pay for my survival in lieu of businesses being willing to employ me for fear of being deserted en-masse by their customer base for offending their sensibilities by employing "freaks". My education also assists me with managing my limited budget and giving me the various necessary skills to get the most from my hobbies. I have had sex with a teacher... He wasn't my teacher, this was late last year, early this year and I met him on this site. He was a primary school teacher. He spelled 'of course' as 'of coarse'... Hopeless speller, hopeless fuck! I'm sure not all are like that but he was.
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Public sector professionals are dirty fuckers! 
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Did education do anything for you? Yes, it upped my income by $50,000 Have you ever had sex with a teacher/lecturer? Yes and I got an A+ If a teacher/lecturer, have you had sex with a student? No I never did...I was only a professor for a few years. I did run a research lab for many years and did have sex with one of the women there.
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Do universities make a difference? Some do and some do not make a difference. I think it all depends what your are taking there.. Do you think governments should fund university teaching and/or research? for some research they are funding some projects here in Canada mostly on the medicine side. Did education do anything for you? For me I think it did in my career. I went back and got a second degree and that one was the key to my success in field of work. Have you ever had sex with a teacher/lecturer? no never.. have thought about it! If a teacher/lecturer, have you had sex with a student? no
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There's a cosmetology school near where I live. It seems very busy.
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Higher education will add to my life. i intend to throw myself totally into the experience. No sex with teacher/lecturer Yet but expect to be able to answer YES within a year.
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...I believe the system worked better 20 years ago...I went to Brown in the 70's..it cost $1200 a semester..now it is $40,000.....I believe that the public colleges should get all of the government grant money ...and not one penny to private colleges..they don't need the money.... ..and it should be free and open to everyone....and that is one academic delinquent to another... Blue
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1. Universities are an essential part of our culture and economy. In their own right they employ millions in the UK alone, research projects lead to industrial revolutions, our youth are trained there for the big bad world, our arts and crafts are nurtured and encouraged in a safe but challenging environment. We could not be without further education. Lecturers continue the good work of school teachers in helping to influence the future of our youth. 2. Absolutely no question that they should. 3. In the words of CJ, I didn't get where I am today without eduaction. 4. Yes, but not someone who was lecturing to me at the time. And
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I didn't know that about honey bees!
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I'm very pleased to hear that education has helped your career.
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It's not that people talk me down, more that they don't quite know what I do. They just think I teach and when I tell them how little I teach they assume I do next to nothing! It's great to hear that academics are fantastic lovers in your experience. I promise not to disappoint!
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