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UCL now hosts Facebook’s PhD programme. Not an endowment or grant with guaranteed independence, but a business partnership where the company (as in this press release) describes the PhD programme, consistently as “ours”.https://twitter.com/alexvoica/status/1364306538521890820 …
I think these are good concerns, but has anyone spoken to PhD students about what they want? Will this improve diversity and inclusion postgraduate level? Will it mean supervisors are likely to be more accountable as an external company is involved?
Tech firms have comparably poor diversity and inclusion to unis, which are abysmal. Not sure why they would be more accountable (to whom? they’re subject to fewer equality laws). Universities have totally failed, but the solution is not to privatise them.
They’re definitely not subject to fewer equality laws. University complaints go through the OIA — which isn’t particularly independent. Workers at tech companies are protected by employment rights and the employment tribunal.
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