University lecturer slams Amazon for sending five packets of seeds in massive boxes

University lecturer slams Amazon’s excessive packaging after packets of carrot seeds were delivered in FIVE separate cardboard boxes Dr Robin Pettitt shared images on Twitter of the five large boxes of packaging  University lecturer ordered five bags of carrot seeds from online retail giant Revealed the seeds came packed separately, and said he was going to … Read more

Lecturer unfairly sacked from role for using too many question marks in texts, tribunal finds

A university lecturer has won a £15,000 payout after being unfairly sacked from job for ‘aggressive’ behaviour – by sending too many question marks in text messages. Dr Binoy Sobnack, a physics lecturer at the University of Loughborough, created an ‘intimidating tone’ with his use of ‘multiple punctuation marks’, a tribunal heard. He was removed … Read more

Autistic university lecturer wins £170,000 discrimination payout

A university lecturer with autism has won a £170,000 discrimination payout after her boss said she was as ‘mad as a box of frogs.’ Elizabeth Aylott successfully sued BPP university, a private organisation in London, for disability discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal last year.      Mrs Aylott has Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) which went undiagnosed until months after … Read more

Maths lecturer leaves people baffled with his daughter’s homework

Maths lecturer is left baffled by his seven-year-old daughter’s geometry homework and turns to Twitter for help – so can YOU work out if it’s true or false? Dr Kit Yates shares his seven-year-old daughter’s maths homework to Twitter The question asked students whether a semi-circle had ‘two right angles’ or not The maths lecturer, … Read more

University lecturer is stunned when hackers doodle genitals across her Shakespeare presentation

A university lecturer was stunned when hackers doodled genitals across her Shakespeare presentation during a Q&A session with students. Dr Sarah Olive had been putting forward her linguistics research to a class of dozens at the University of York when the lecture was suddenly sabotaged.  The senior lecturer had been talking for 50 minutes when … Read more

Trevor Phillips compares Prince Harry to a ‘1980s polytechnic lecturer’

Equality campaigner Trevor Phillips said Prince Harry used ’empty jargon’ that ‘he doesn’t appear to understand’ when being interviewed about race alongside Meghan yesterday. Mr Phillips – the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission – said the Duke of Sussex‘s use of the term ‘structural racism’ made him sound ‘like a 1980s polytechnic … Read more