April 21, 2021
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by Anthony Gafoor
Inevitably, due to the temporal confluence of the canine media growls on the Chancellor’s Report and the hissings of the felines in the international community on the issue of the reappointment of the Vice-Chancellor, the two matters have become inextricably intertwined.
As reported in the Wiredja.com article, this latter counter position of the Panthers first came from Heads of Departments at the Regional Headquarters at the UWI’s Mona campus in the form of a letter to the Chancellor dated February 26, 2021.
Dublin City University says it is astonished over a complaint made by the Embassies of Georgia and Ukraine in Ireland about the university s teaching of a course on the geopolitics of the Caucasus and Ukraine.
The two embassies sent a joint letter to the President of DCU, Professor Dáire Keogh, and copied it to a number of senior DCU academics and a senior official at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin on 8 April.
The letter claimed the course was spreading disinformation and Russian propaganda narratives – a view flatly rejected by DCU, which says the criticism amounts to political interference and seeks to undermine the core democratic principle of academic freedom.