Alcoholvrije zones voor Londense universiteit

Studenten van tegenwoordig willen lang niet allemaal veel drinken of losbandig leven, constateert Malcolm Gillies, rector van London Metropolitan University. “Jongeren zijn vaak behoorlijk conservatief. We moeten ook omzichtiger met seks omgaan”, zei hij tegen The Guardian.



Veel vrouwelijke moslimstudenten gaan volgens hem met een mannelijk familielid naar de universiteit. “Their student experience is going to be different from someone who is gorging out in the Chocoholics Society or someone who is there to have a … libidinous time.”

Fraud
Four TU Delft faculties have reported an increase in reports of academic fraud during exams. The boards of examiners usually deal with at most three cases of fraud per year, but since last year this has increased to ten or fifteen reports of alleged fraud per year. The reports concern the faculties of Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, and Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering. Students say they commit acts of fraud because of the ‘Bachelor-before-Master’ rule and the government proposals concerning long-studying students.