Do “older academics” really need to “make room for the young?” According to a recent opinion article in the Times Higher Education publication, they most certainly do.
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A ban on age discrimination in goods and services has been shelved by ministers, leaving millions of elderly at risk of inferior hospital treatment and rip off insurance.
The Times today launches its third Active Life Award to celebrate the achievements of older people.
A serial litigant is believed to have earned thousands of pounds by bombarding employers with claims of ageism simply because they used the words “school leaver” or “recent graduate” in job advertisements.
A BBC presenter who was dropped from the corporation’s rural affairs programme along with other women in their forties and fifties has become the first broadcaster to sue the BBC for age discrimination.
Millions of older people will be able to lengthen their working lives under proposals from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65.
Judges will have to retire at 70.