Student-instructor relationships

Writer Paul Rigg fleshes out questions about student-instructor relationships, in light of a recent case involving a law student and a human rights professor at Britain's University of Warwick. Although Professor Istvan Pogany followed what many would call 'the rules,' and told the school about his relationship with a student in her 30s, the situation has come under much scrutiny. The student became pregnant, and went through widely-reported mental suffering after aborting the baby, whom some bloggers speculate she wanted to keep. Rigg looks at "whether intimate relationships between academics and students should be more strongly discouraged, or even prohibited." He speculates that policies requiring academics to reveal any intimate relationships they have with students are growing. And he predicts they will continue to grow, especially with a recently released Hollywood movie dealing with this topic.
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