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The 21 Group campaigns against the complaisant acceptance of bullying by UK Universities. We provide support for those experiencing bullying in academia.
Sexual harassment at Oxford University was exposed by Bloomberg

Great comment on 21 Group blog

Warden of New College Oxford -- Miles Young -- has yet to respond to allegations that there are multiple sex pests among the Fellowship

21percent.org?p=2949
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If academic misconduct isn’t dealt with properly, it escalates & problems become larger

Oxford University is learning this the hard way

Spending public money on aggressive lawyers specialising in “reputation management” doesn't work

21percent.org?p=2949
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Oxford University is now ablaze with sex scandals

As a poster on the 21 Group blog states, it’s the fallout of previous cover-ups & cowardice

Had Oxford confronted its predators instead of shielding them, it wouldn’t be facing an epidemic today

21percent.org?p=2925
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
University leaders are ultimate hustlers, they'll do anything for money

Harvard's former President Summers retreats from public life after emails revealed ties to Jeffrey Epstein — both professionally & personally

Abysmal judgment & deep ethical failure

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
2025 Awards with Dancing VCs in Tuxedos

Outstanding Achievement in Gaslighting Your Own Workforce -- Cambridge University HR Division

Most Chaotic Ensemble Performance by Senior Management Team -- Cardiff University

Estate Mismanagement Achievement Award -- Nottingham University for Castle Meadow
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ulster University spent £24k on a trip to the 2024 THE Awards

If 60 unis did the same, UK universities shell out ~£1.6m on #THEAwards

Hard to justify this spend when many face certain job prospects -- morale is better boosted by real improvements or pay rises than glitzy ceremonies
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Ongoing sexual harassment cases at Oxford University discussed in new blog posting

21percent.org?p=2925

"I complained about my experience as a postgraduate student in the Faculty. Prof [REDACTED]’s response was to tell me about the sex lives of the lecturers. Fascinating as these stories were ..."
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
New blog posting -- Trouble in the Fens

21percent.org?p=2909

It’s a great shame — because continuity of the current senior management team is not what we need, real and effective change is
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
On the passing of James Watson

Intellect & morality are distinct; abundance in one doesn’t guarantee the other

His book 'The Double Helix' is engrossing & troubling portrayal of scientific research

Dr Rosalind Franklin died in 1958, 10 years before this misogynistic portrayal
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Presidency of Limerick University — Now Open

Previous President distinguished herself by vastly overpaying for unapproved student housing

We seek a seasoned bunglocrat — someone with no discernible skills beyond spending public funds on poor governance

jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD353/p...
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
UK universities have undergone academic version of the Post Office’s corporatisation

Inflated salaries at the top, institutional opacity, reputation management over justice & power asymmetry are recreating the same conditions for systemic harm

New blog posting 21percent.org?p=2896
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Athena SWAN is scheme recognizing universities’ efforts to promote gender equality

It regards its job as done once awards are granted, regardless of workplace realities

It's superficial & self-protective. It legitimizes university behaviour rather than fixing things

21percent.org?p=2867
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If bullying & harassment in universities could be fixed with empty talk & statements on websites, the problem would be long gone

UKRI set up forum with a bold tweet in 2023

It's semi-derelict, not been updated in two years

Talk is cheap; action from UKRI clearly costs too much

www.ftbh.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"I Loved My Life Until … "

Another bullying survivor at Cambridge University speaks out

21percent.org?p=2837

The more victims who speak out with courage, the safer we all are
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
University HR Directors & Heads of Legal are openly weeping & distraught

Universities are one of the big users of Non Disclosure Agreements to cover up abuse & misconduct

No more, it's stopping

gov.uk/government/n...
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Sex, Lies and Senior Faculty

Professor Gropewell & Lustbridge University granted anonymity by Employment Tribunal in a sex harassment case

There are no circumstances in which a university should be using public money to silence victims in this way

21percent.org?p=2819
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New blog posting

21percent.org?p=2793

Powerful & distressing diary entries of a victim of academic bullying in a UK university
October 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What every Vice Chancellor should be offering with genuine contrition

21percent.org?p=2757
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Some universities are spending a lot of money on lawyers to protect misbehaving senior administrators or academics

It's contrary to their core values & makes the scandals worse

The money that is being used to hush the scandals up is public money

21percent.org?p=2769
October 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New blog posting -- The Alternative Vice Chancellor's Annual Address

Cambridge must end victimising whistleblowers & early-career staff, reform its HR, ditch secrecy, fix pay & improve job security & transparency

Choice is ours -- fairness or silence

21percent.org?p=2757
October 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
At a Newspaper, a damaging story about Consigliere University is set to run

The Vice Chancellor pushes to suppress it

Is the story dead?

Institutional complicity added to incompetence?

21percent.org?p=2723
September 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
New blog posting

How a University deals with awkward allegations of plagiarism in academia

1 Lie & deny; 2 Attack the accuser; 3 Personal backstory of hardship; 4 Sham investigation

Works for bullying allegations as well

21percent.org?p=2688
September 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Interesting comment on 21 Group blog

21percent.org?p=2666

Oxford Uni Business School Dean Prof Soumitra Dutta quits after harassment ruling -- he had abruptly left Cornell in 2018

Oxbridge is a haven for US professorial sex pests with a taste for port & bad plumbing

@the1752group.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Response to latest Oxford sexual harassment scandal at Said Business School has been muted

Prioritising victims & whistleblowers rather than the harasser would be a start

Too much pressure from famous universities to hush SH up

21percent.org?p=2666
September 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Vice chancellors job isn't to be liked" says Donna Whitehead, VC of University of Brighton

Mission Accomplished

t.co/1nHhxU6Nng
September 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM