Cambridge University will 'review hiring process for academics' after Jason Arday controversy

Officials confirmed the investigation into its youngest ever black professor would 'feed into a review of the process for the appointment of senior academic roles'.

Prof Priyamvada Gopal, who is part of the group, says Cambridge should not be "marking its own homework".

Cambridge academics demand independent inquiry into appointment of Jason Arday as professor  lbc.co.uk

The real story is less Arday’s BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it — the inevitable consequence of their craven cave to the cult of BLM.

Yesterday, 5 August, Professor Jason Arday resigned from his Sociology post at University of Cambridge and Jesus College. When he took the job back in 2023, he became the youngest Black professor ever to teach at the institution. However, since that point, accusations of plagiarism have dogged his work. Several things

Exclusive: Academics call for inquiry, saying university must be held accountable for ‘grotesque racism unleashed’ The University of Cambridge’s leaders deserve blame for the “grotesque racism unleashed” by Jason Arday’s appointment as professor, according to academics calling for the university to hold an independent

Amongst the hundreds of professors to walk the cloisters of Cambridge, Jason Arday stood out.

The professor resigned from his high-profile role at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday

Jason Arday resigned on Wednesday following a series of allegations regarding his achievements and allegations of plagiarism in his PhD thesis

The institution was willing to look the other way when it came to the now-former professor’s manifest inadequacies and deceptions for DEI reasons.

A University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a high-profile plagiarism row has resigned after being placed under investigation.

The row over Jason Arday, Cambridge’s “youngest black professor”, raises serious questions about the corrosive role Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DEI) has come to play in institutions, businesses and society at large, says Ike Ijeh Plagiarism is older than Ancient Greece but, unlike imitation, it is the least sincer

Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he has been through it all. Not everyone believes him.

Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.

Jason Arday affair leaves questions for Cambridge to answer  The Times

Celebrity Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned suddenly on Wednesday after the university announced it had opened an investigation into his academic credentials, has a history of claiming he was the victim of violent, criminal threats that are not supported by law enforcement or any other available records, th