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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Witch hunt at London Met - update

Here is a link to a very useful site with more information. Particularly useful is this fact-sheet. Sign the petition, make a fuss. Don't believe it can't happen at your institution. It can.
Posted by Colin at 03:52

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