University Prof sacked after “unacceptable behaviour”
The Flemish
Free University of Brussels, the VUB, has sacked a member of staff following
several complaints about unacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature. VRT understands that the staff member is a university
professor.
Several reports
of unacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature arrived during the course of 2020.
The university launched what it describes as a thorough internal procedure. The
university says that such behaviour will not be tolerated at the VUB.
The
university’s statement is scant in detail.
“In the
importance of the rights and privacy of all concerned and in order to allow a
process of healing to commence no further details are divulged” the university
says.
The VUB has
not identified the culprit or said what his or her function was, though VRT
understands a professor was the subject of the complaints.
