Michael Owen's daughter Gemma, 19 - a Team GB dressage champion - wows in a plunging navy dress as she joins her parents at Chester races Saira Khan looks incredible as she channels Kim Kardashian by slipping into a plunging black swimsuit for sizzling photoshoot It adds: 'Content notes inform students of the content of a given piece of material, not to mark it as 'do not read', but instead to enable students to take the necessary steps to engage safely and with minimal psychological distress. 'In fact, students who benefit from content notes will be better equipped to discuss challenging material if content notes are provided, thus resulting in a positive impact on academic freedom and intellectual rigour, by ensuring that all students - particularly those most affected by the issues being discussed - are able to participate on a more equal footing. The advice states: 'There is no reason that providing content notes, or any other reasonable adjustment for disabled students, should limit the content that can be presented or discussed in the classroom. The university adds that students who are not given adequate warnings face a negative impact on their well-being and academic achievement. The university adds that students who are not given adequate warnings face a negative impact on their well-being and academic achievement It states that content notes do not limit the topics that can be discussed in the classroom. Yet in the new guidance, Cambridge University says there is 'no harm in providing a content note'.
In 2017, students at the university were warned of gore and violence that might 'upset' them in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. 'They help to equip students who have experienced violence to engage with their education on an equal footing, rather than exposing them to triggers without warning or preparation which may make them relive their own experiences of such realities.'Ĭambridge University came under fire last October for putting trigger warnings on children's books such as Little House On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder for its 'stereotypical depictions of Native Americans'.
The advice, issued in the last week, states: 'Content notes are not intended to 'coddle' privileged students insulated from violence. Cambridge University came under fire last October for putting trigger warnings on children's books such as Little House On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder for its 'stereotypical depictions of Native Americans'