Bobocii de la UMF, aşteptaţi cu halate şi cu tururi ghidate
Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie „Grigore T. Popa” din Iaşi organizează, în perioada 27 - 29 septembrie 2019, programul de integrare pentru studenţii din primul an, sub numele de „Orientation Days”.
Evenimentul, aflat în acest an la a treia ediţie, este organizat împreună cu societăţile studenţeşti care activează în cadrul UMF Iaşi, şi presupune ca studenţii din primul an, atât cei români, cât şi cei de la liniile de predare în engleză şi franceză, să primească informaţii despre tururile pregătite de organizatori, la info-point-ul instalat în clădirea Institutului de Anatomie (Sala Rockefeller).
Zilele dedicate bobocilor la liniile de predare în limba română vor fi sâmbătă şi duminică, 28 şi 29 septembrie, când sunt programate tururile academice care vor fi conduse de studenţi din anii mai mari. Acestea se vor desfăşura în intervalul 9.00 - 16.00 şi vor debuta în Aula Magna „George Emil Palade”, unde bobocii vor primi broşuri şi halate personalizate cu sigla UMF Iaşi şi vor face cunoştinţă cu decanii facultăţilor şi tutorii de an. Apoi, vor vizita clădirile universităţii începând cu Corpul principal şi Institutul de Anatomie, până la sediul din str. Kogălniceanu, Centrul de Limbi Moderne sau Biblioteca UMF. Studenţii din anii mai mari le-au pregătit „bobocilor” şi o surpriză: Road Safety – sâmbătă, 28 septembrie, de la ora 14.00. Astfel, în Piaţa Naţiunilor (Esplanada UMF Iaşi), va avea loc o simulare de accident rutier.
La locul evenimentului vor fi prezente echipaje de intervenţie ale UPU-SMURD, ale Poliţiei Rutiere şi ale Inspectoratului pentru Situaţii de Urgenţă al Judeţului Iaşi, care vor descarcera şi transporta către Unitatea de Primire Urgenţe „victimele”. „Timp de trei zile, sub aripa «fraţilor» mai mari, vor avea ocazia de a vizita universitatea, în cadrul tururilor academice, dar şi de a descoperi frumuseţile Iaşului – pentru cei care vin din alte localităţi. După această acţiune, îi aşteptăm cu alte surprize la ceremonia de deschidere a anului universitar, care va avea loc luni, de la ora 17.00, în Aula «George Emil Palade»“, a declarat prof.dr. Viorel Scripcariu, rectorul UMF Iaşi.
La festivitatea de deschidere a anului universitar, decanii celor patru facultăţi ale universităţii vor premia studenţii care s-au remarcat în cercetarea ştiinţifică, au participat la conferinţe sau la congrese, au obţinut premii, s-au remarcat în voluntariat sau în acţiuni legate de responsabilitatea socială. De asemenea, rectorul UMF Iaşi va înmâna un premiu special pentru absolventul care a obţinut cea mai mare medie a anilor de studiu.
Publicație : Ziarul de Iași
USAMV Iaşi, gazda unui eveniment organizat de Ambasada SUA
Universitatea de Ştiinţe Agricole şi Medicină Veterinară „Ion Ionescu de la Brad” din Iaşi (USAMV) va fi gazda „Conferinţei internaţionale pe tema inovaţiei şi a biotehnologiei în agricultură”. Evenimentul se va desfăşura miercuri, şi este organizat sub coordonarea directă a Ambasadei Statelor Unite în România, în parteneriat cu Asociaţia Producătorilor de Porumb din România (APPR). Manifestarea face parte din seria conferinţelor din cadrul săptămânii europene a biotehnologiilor.
La Iaşi, conferinţa va avea printre invitaţi speakeri internaţionali din SUA, Franţa şi Germania. Până în acest an, conferinţele la nivel înalt pe această temă de interes major pentru fermierii din România (sub coordonarea directă a Ambasadei Statelor Unite în România) au fost organizate doar la Bucureşti.
Prin organizarea conferinţei la USAMV Iaşi se doreşte, în mod deosebit, aducerea în prim plan a zonei de Est a României, specificul agriculturii din această regiune şi a implicării manifestate de instituţia ieşeană de învăţământ superior în creearea competivităţii internaţionale a activităţilor româneşti de profil.
APPR este o asociaţie formată din producători agricoli, dar şi din reprezentanţi ai lanţului profesional de porumb din România, obiectivul principal al acesteia fiind furnizarea de expertiză tehnică şi comunicare economică pentru membrii şi organizaţiile fermierilor din România.
Publicație : Evenimentul
Student plans weekly commute from Amsterdam to Bristol due to accommodation shortage
University offers applicants halls in Wales to cope with rise in demand
A student is considering flying to Bristol from Amsterdam every week for his postgraduate course after failing to secure housing through the university.
Sohail Braakman, a University of Bristol student, said he had applied to the institution on the premise that postgraduate accommodation would be available in the city.
But he has failed to find housing for the past six weeks due to a shortage of accommodation.
Mr Braakman, who is Dutch and lives in Amsterdam, told the BBC that budget flights from the Netherlands – which can be as low as £20 – are cheaper than renting privately in Bristol.
It comes after first-year students at the same university were left with no halls after being accepted onto courses – and some were offered housing in Wales to cope with demand.
Wilf Gillett Coles, who is due to study physics at the university in October, was left without housing. He told Inside Out on BBC West: “Most people haven’t lived anywhere on their own and halls can be quite a nice transition period but we don’t have that.
“We’ve just been thrown out into the wind.”
Grace Whittaker, another student who had no accommodation, was told that there was housing in Langford, in North Somerset, and in Newport – which is more than 30 miles away and in a different country.
She said: “If you know how big the courses are, you know how many spaces you have for students and you know how many halls you have for students – so why give out so many offers and why let people through clearing if we are not going to have accommodation?”
A record number of students across the country took up places on degrees through clearing this year.
Competition between universities to recruit students, who pay £9,250 a year, has grown as there are fewer 18-year-olds in the population and yet student numbers at institutions remain uncapped.
Universities across the UK have been expanding in recent years – and the number of students at Bristol has risen by 15 per cent in three years, from 21,555 in 2014-15 to 24,850 in 2017-18.
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George Bemrose, student living officer at the University of Bristol’s Students’ Union, said that in every year of his course there were too many people in the lecture hall.
“It would be cramped. Especially in first year it felt as if everyone was pushing into each other to sit there,” he said. “They are trying to stretch each course as much as possible.”
Mr Braakman added that he thought the university was accepting too many people – similar to airlines overbooking flights.
He said: “If I knew about the housing situation in Bristol, if it was transparent that there was not much accommodation in general, then I wouldn’t choose Bristol.”
Mr Bemrose told The Independent: “There are still a number of postgraduate and Erasmus students who are struggling to find accommodation in the private market.”
“I still think there is work that needs to be done to ensure all students are getting the help they need,” he added. “We need to prevent a similar situation happening in the future.”
Eva Crossan Jory, vice president for welfare at the National Union of Students (NUS), said: “The fact that flying to and from university is a cheaper and simpler option than renting is a damning example of the housing crisis students are facing.
“Universities are simply not doing enough to ensure all their students have access to affordable, safe and decent accommodation from the start.”
Sarah Purdy, who is responsible for student wellbeing at the University of Bristol, said she was “really sorry” to hear students were anxious about a lack of accommodation.
But she said the process was similar each year and it will be “same in every university” in the UK.
Ms Purdy added: “I think this year there were larger numbers of students involved in the process in part because we had fewer students who decided to defer or withdraw from the guaranteed offer.”
But she insisted that the university had not “let students in, over and above the numbers” it had planned to admit.
A University of Bristol spokesperson said: “Colleagues in our accommodation team have been working incredibly hard over the past few weeks to individually support those students who were not part of the 6,000 students we have already placed in university-owned or university-managed accommodation.
“As each day has passed we have managed to bring down the number still looking for suitable accommodation and before our students started to arrive this weekend we were able to offer every student accommodation in Bristol or at our Langford campus.”
They added: “We believe our website and the information we supply to students gaining a place at Bristol is clear about the accommodation we can offer and the processes we follow. We are sorry if Sohail or any other student feels it is not clear.
“We always look to see where our processes can be improved and we will review our communications as part of this.”
Publicație : The Independent
Helping the OED to turn over a new fig leaf
The iconic dictionary’s misogynist descriptions of female genitalia were ripe for revision, say Emma Rees and Ellie Stedall
The Oxford English Dictionary has an unrivalled global stature as the go-to reference work for the English language, and generations of scholars have had its dependability instilled in them.
The idea for this massive dictionary was conceived in 1857, and the first edition was completed in 1928. A second edition, published in the 1980s, added new material, but it is only in the past 20 years that a major revision of the entire work has begun, with an eye to a third edition that might never appear in hard copy.
That process runs in tandem with the addition of new material. As a result, the current online version of the dictionary is a patchwork of fully updated entries and others awaiting editorial attention.
The reputation of such a cultural icon as the OED hinges on the rigour and objectivity of its editorial processes. But its authoritativeness has always been subject to the social mores of the day, and what was once current can rapidly become not only outdated but offensive, too.
We are an academic and an OED editor, and we met at a conference where the former gave a talk on the literary and cultural history of the vagina. The talk took issue with the unmistakable note of contempt in the first OED edition’s definition of clitoris: “The homologue of the male penis; present, as a rudimentary organ, in the females of many of the higher vertebrates.”
“Would the sky really fall in,” the audience was asked, “were the penis to be described as ‘The homologue of the female clitoris; present, as a rudimentary organ, in the males of many of the higher vertebrates’?”
So began months of collaboration with the OED team on coming up with new definitions. The clitoris, for example, is now: “The female genital organ located in the anterior part of the vulva, which contains numerous nerve endings and plays a major role in sexual arousal and pleasure in women.” And the most recent OED online update includes an intriguing group of words: names for, and terms relating to, the female genitals.
It would be an understatement to suggest that entries such as vagina, as well as more recondite terms (vaginated, vulviform and clitoridectomy) pose an interesting challenge for modern editors. That is not least because the OED aims to show as accurately and fully as possible the way a word is used, from its first entry into the English language up to the present day. It never comments on how a word should be used, and if a term is employed in a way that is derogatory to a certain group, the OED must reflect that.
Having said that, it is also the job of today’s lexicographers to redress the cultural bias portrayed in earlier editions. This issue is particularly acute in the case of female sexuality, which has long been viewed with a mixture of fear, disgust and salaciousness.
It is not only the definitions but also the quotation evidence that must be addressed. The OED’s Emily Gray commented on “how difficult it was to find any evidence of women referring to their own bodies. The vast majority [of evidence] was in medical texts, which either treated female anatomy as something alien that needed to be discovered by objective male examination, or described it in a state of disease or rupture. Or both.”
There’s a tension, then, between the OED’s duty to reflect apparently misogynist usages and definitions, and the role of the researcher to seek out examples that recontextualise and diversify the evidence. The missing element of female pleasure has now been added to the entry, based on up-to-date evidence: “2010 Cosmopolitan Every inch of the labia, vulva and clitoris is filled with a gazillion tingly nerve endings.”
No concept captures the fear of female sexuality better than the myth of the “vagina dentata”, or toothed vagina. While most of the quotation evidence for this entry describes the horror associated with this symbol, a modern quotation added during the revision process mocks and debunks it in a woman’s words: “2013 G. Kaplan Poison Pill Oh and Percy? What I said about my vagina dentata? No teeth, luv, honest, See you at eight, then.”
There is particular irony about the historic lack of female voices in relation to these terms because women are traditionally thought to be chatty, even loquacious. This is nicely exemplified by the fact that the verb twattle formerly meant to chatter or gossip, giving rise to playful puns in the 17th century, when twat entered the lexicon.
There’s a revealing quotation under the OED’s twat entry that draws an important link between past and present: “1719 in T. D’Urfey Wit and Mirth I took her by the lilly white Hand, and by the Twat I caught her”. This is evidence of “catching” that long predates Donald Trump.
When pussy-grabbing occurs at the level of nomenclature and definition, terms are wrested from women and inscribed by men. It takes collaboration and painstaking work to overturn the prejudices of previous editors and previous generations. But it is well worth the effort: seeking out female voices has consequences that far exceed simply bringing words up to date.
Publicație : The Times
Failed for-profit’s students could ‘fall through cracks’, MP fears
HE institutions have offered more than 2,000 places to GSM students, but uncertainty remains over fate of others
Higher education institutions have made more than 2,000 offers of places to students from for-profit GSM London after it entered administration, but there are fears that other students may be “falling through the cracks”.
GSM, which was England’s biggest for-profit college in terms of students recruited with public Student Loans Company funding, will cease teaching at the end of this month, meaning that many of its 3,571 students must find alternative institutions.
The Office for Students said it continues to be “actively engaged in the situation” and that “in excess of 2,000 offers” have been made to these students by OfS-registered providers.
Students who were eligible for a student loan at GSM should be “similarly eligible at their new provider (assuming that they are OfS registered)”, said an OfS spokesman.
But Matthew Pennycook, Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, told Times Higher Education that it is “not clear if some [students] are falling through the cracks”.
“GSM is unlikely to be the last private higher education provider to go bust in a system where market forces are the ultimate determinant of success,” added Mr Pennycook.
“But it is the institution’s students who risk paying the price of its publicly funded expansion and the regulatory experiment that facilitated it.
“Those students are predominantly mature, on low incomes and from minority communities – those most under-represented in higher education.
“As things stand, we simply have no idea how many have secured places at alternative providers, where they will be taught or whether they will have the financial support to finish their courses. We need to know.”
GSM said that around two-thirds of students needing to transfer have received offers from other institutions so far. And Coventry University’s CU London will occupy part of the GSM campus “so that some students will be able to continue their studies in Greenwich”, it also said.
GSM is working with about 15 higher education institutions to “finalise offers for those students who are yet to make a decision on where they want to transfer if they wish to continue their studies", a spokewoman said.
London South Bank University told THE that it has had 250 “firm accepts” from GSM students for entry on to its courses.
London Metropolitan University has offered places to a “number of students” from GSM, but with enrolment currently under way, said that it cannot yet confirm how many of those will turn into registered students.
The University of Greenwich said that offers have been made to 71 GSM students, while the University of Westminster said that fewer than 20 student have joined from GSM.
GSM, which is ultimately owned by private equity firm Sovereign Capital, awarded degrees validated by the University of Plymouth.
Publicație : The Times
UK ‘still has significant issues’ on HE participation
As latest headline figures are released, concerns are raised over groups still failing to gain access to HE
The UK higher education system is still failing to reach a “stubbornly large” group of people despite it hitting a 50 per cent participation rate last year, data from the world’s most industrialised nations suggest.
The Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR), which measures the likelihood of someone going into tertiary education by the age of 30, reached 50 per cent for England in 2016-17, meeting the target famously set by Tony Blair’s Labour government in 1999.
Headline figures in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s latest Education at a Glance report, published this month, also show that the UK has one of the highest enrolment rates for 19- and 20-year-olds entering higher education.
But with the latest HEIPR for 2017-18 due to be published on 26 September, questions have been raised about whether such measurements are masking underlying issues with the country’s participation rate.
OECD figures highlighted by Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at the University of Oxford and director of the Centre of Global Higher Education, show that the UK actually has one of the lowest proportions of 18- to 24-year-olds in education of all kinds.
The UK had about 43 per cent of this age group in education in 2018 against an OECD average of 53 per cent and an average of 57 per cent for the 23 OECD members that are also in the European Union. In Germany, the figure was 62 per cent and in the Netherlands it was 65 per cent.
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Professor Marginson told the recent launch of Education at a Glance that in part this was because the UK had comparatively short tertiary education courses compared with some other countries.
But he also said that the UK’s participation rate was “not quite as strong as we sometimes think it is” with there still being a “stubbornly large component of people” – often from very disadvantaged backgrounds – who simply do not get the opportunity to enter higher education.
It was “worth keeping in mind that [the UK’s] domestic participation still has significant issues”, Professor Marginson said.
Graeme Atherton, director of the National Education Opportunities Network, said that some other countries had better-defined non-academic routes into tertiary education and this is where the UK may need to improve.
“There is no doubt that there is a group of learners that we fail to reach. I think we still fail to connect with certain groups and our own domestic data show us that fairly clearly,” he said.
“You might suggest that higher professional education or more diverse forms of HE is perhaps something we are lacking. We do have a system that focuses very much on academic forms of higher education and other systems don’t.” Dr Atherton pointed to the Netherlands and Germany as two examples.
He also said that better comparative international data may be needed in order to get to the heart of whether the UK was failing disadvantaged groups to a greater extent than other nations.
“What you would really like to see is cross-country comparison on the kind of access-related, income-related or socio-economic factors that we feel are really important, but that is not always there,” Dr Atherton said.
Publicație : The Times
Rentrée universitaire: ce qui va changer en 2020
En fin de semaine dernière en conférence de presse, Frédérique Vidal, la ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, a annoncé un certain nombre de nouveautés pour la nouvelle rentrée universitaire en cours.
Après Jean-Michel Blanquer il y a un mois, c’était au tour de Frédérique Vidal, ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, de faire sa traditionnelle conférence de presse de rentrée, vendredi 20 septembre. Une occasion pour la ministre de revenir sur le déroulement de l’édition 2019 de Parcoursup, mais aussi, de donner plus de détails sur les nouveautés qui verront le jour lors de cette année universitaire 2019/2020. Le Figaro revient sur les différents changements qui vont survenir dans les prochains mois.
- Encore plus de formations sur Parcoursup
En janvier 2020, toutes les formations reconnues par l’état seront sur Parcoursup, comme le souhaitait la loi relative à l’orientation et à la réussite des étudiants (ORE). De très nombreux établissements, tels que Sciences Po Paris, les IEP de région, l’université Paris Dauphine, toutes les écoles de commerce post-bac, les écoles de formation des métiers de la culture, les instituts de formation aux professions paramédicales, les écoles supérieures de cuisine, mais également de nouvelles formations en apprentissage, rejoindront cette année la plateforme d’orientation. Certaines de ces formations avaient obtenu une dérogation du ministère pour ne pas entrer sur la plateforme en 2019 et ainsi mieux préparer leur arrivée.
En 2019, 14 742 formations étaient présentes sur la plateforme. Cette année, plus de 600 nouveaux cursus vont à leur tour faire leur entrée sur le portail. Un bon moyen pour le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur d’offrir aux candidats une meilleure visibilité sur toutes les formations existantes.
Publicație : Le Figaro
Grande-Bretagne: le parti travailliste demande l’abolition des écoles privées
REPORTAGE - Lors de son congrès annuel, le parti travailliste anglais s’est entendu sur une cible: les collèges privés anglais, les fameuses public schools. La motion adoptée ce lundi par les délégués du Labour vise l’abolition des écoles privées, qui seraient intégrées dans le secteur public si la gauche arrivait au pouvoir.
De notre envoyé spécial à Brighton
Voilà un thème plus consensuel que le Brexit, avec un coup de barre à gauche censé cimenter des troupes divisées sur l’Europe. Lors de son congrès annuel de Brighton, le parti travailliste s’est entendu sur une cible «sociale», les écoles privées. Si, dans les mois qui viennent, Jeremy Corbyn arrive au pouvoir, ce sera le début de leur fin… L’objectif est clair, en finir avec «la hiérarchie, l’élitisme et la sélection dans l’éducation» et abolir «les privilèges de quelques-uns».
La motion adoptée ce lundi par les délégués du Labour vise l’abolition des écoles privées, qui seront intégrées dans le secteur public. La ministre de l’Education du cabinet fantôme travailliste, Angela Rayner, voulait la fin des statuts «de charité», des subventions ou des avantages fiscaux accordés aux écoles privées. Mais le texte voté, présenté par les groupes les plus à gauche du parti, va plus loin. À court terme, les universités devront respecter des quotas drastiques pour l’accueil d’élèves issus du secteur privé. Mais surtout, il prévoit que tous les biens et actifs de ces écoles seront redistribués démocratiquement et équitablement à travers le système d’éducation du pays.
Certains barons du parti ont émis des réserves sur cette dernière idée, radicale, pointant qu’elle pouvait être «illégale», mais les activistes «ultras» n’ont pas voulu en démordre. Le «Conseil des écoles indépendantes» a d’ailleurs réagi en laissant entendre qu’une telle mesure donnerait lieu à un combat en justice. «Cette initiative est une attaque sur les droits et la liberté des parents de choisir l’éducation de leurs enfants, a déclaré sa présidente, Julie Robinson. L’abolition serait un acte de mutilation nationale. Mettre en pièces d’excellentes écoles n’améliorera pas notre système éducatif».
Les élèves issus du privé représentent 41% des étudiants à Oxford
Le débat sur la reproduction sociale de l’élite britannique est une grande constante de la vie du royaume. Quelque 7% des Britanniques sont éduqués dans des écoles privées. Mais les voix critiques leur reprochent d’accaparer les places dans les meilleures universités. Les élèves issus du privé représentent 41% des étudiants à Oxford, 32% à Cambridge et 37% à l’Imperial College de Londres. On avance aussi que les élèves issus du privé sont surreprésentés dans les postes de responsabilité en politique, dans les affaires et dans les médias. Il est ainsi rappelé que les deux tiers des ministres du Cabinet Johnson sont issus d’écoles privées. Et que David Cameron et Boris Johnson se font la guerre mais sont d’anciens condisciples d’Eton. Si l’on remonte plus loin, on voit que depuis 1721, «Oxbridge» (Oxford et Cambridge) a fourni au pays 40 de ses 54 chefs de gouvernement.
Hypocrisie
Le Labour doit encore plancher sur la façon de mettre en œuvre le projet. «Mais ce que nous voulons, c’est un seul système d’éducation pour tout le monde, a déclaré le responsable des finances du Labour John McDonnell, finissons avec cette grotesque inégalité!» Un certain nombre de hauts responsables du Labour sont toutefois passés par les écoles privées. La ministre de l’Intérieur du Cabinet fantôme a ainsi été taxée d’hypocrisie, pour avoir envoyé son fils à la très peu publique City of London School. «C’était il y a des années», s’est-elle justifiée…
Publicație : Le Figaro
A Clermont-Ferrand, une université hors les murs
REPORTAGELe tour de France des campus, étape 1. L’Université Clermont Auvergne mène une politique en faveur des « publics empêchés », au premier rang desquels figurent les détenus de la maison d’arrêt de Riom.
« Bienvenue au bout du monde ! » Juliette Gatto n’a pas oublié cette exclamation d’une documentaliste de la vidéothèque de Riom, accueillant la jeune enseignante-chercheuse venue de Clermont-Ferrand dispenser des cours de psychologie sociale au centre pénitentiaire sis dans cette sous-préfecture du Puy-de-Dôme. « Mes étudiants, eux, me disaient : “Rendez-vous en terre inconnue”. » C’était il y a bientôt dix ans. Et « ses » étudiants étaient des détenus, incarcérés alors dans un ancien couvent du XIe siècle reconverti en prison centrale depuis 1821. Depuis, Juliette Gatto en a formé des dizaines.
En cette rentrée 2019, celle qui est aujourd’hui maîtresse de conférences en psychologie et travail social au Laboratoire d’études sociologiques sur la construction et la reproduction sociales (Lescores) de l’université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), voit enfin son engagement de toujours partagé par sa hiérarchie. Le 3 septembre, elle a emmené quelques collègues de l’UCA « au bout du monde » – une quinzaine de kilomètres seulement au nord de leur lieu habituel d’enseignement –, dans cette prison installée depuis 2016 en bordure d’autoroute, à la sortie de la ville.
Car le 11 avril a été signée solennellement, à Riom, une convention de partenariat entre la directrice du centre pénitentiaire, Magalie Brutinel, et le président de l’université clermontoise, Mathias Bernard. Aux termes de cet accord inédit, six conférences de vulgarisation scientifique vont être proposées dans le courant de l’année universitaire aux quelque 500 détenus (dont trente femmes) incarcérés à Riom.
Le premier exposé, le 7 octobre, parlera pesticides. Suivront le genre, les « évolutions sociétales au regard de l’art contemporain », la biodiversité, la citoyenneté européenne… Des interventions en phase avec l’actualité, menées à chaque fois par un enseignant-chercheur volontaire dont c’est la spécialité, face à une trentaine de détenus, volontaires également. Entre 30 et 40 minutes pour la conférence, suivies d’un temps de questions-réponses avec les détenus.
« La pédagogie plutôt que la sanction »
Parmi ces citoyens « empêchés », selon la terminologie officielle, « même ceux qui n’ont aucune culture scientifique posent des questions pertinentes », a constaté Philippe Luccarini, enseignant chercheur en neurosciences à l’UCA. Premier à être venu parler de sa spécialité, le cerveau, en mars 2018, il fut mobilisé pour faire, en juin, « la conférence inaugurale » du nouveau dispositif, s’amuse-t-il. Thème d’actualité s’il en est : « Croire ce que l’on voit : monumentale erreur ! »
Publicație : Le Monde
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