High school is different, as is the case with a direct Student-teacher relationship or senior admin. No one reasonable doubts that that's gotta be banned. I'd go so far as saying anyone in a department that the student takes classes at should be banned.
But a post-doc in a completely different faculty doing research and some lecturing? Or even a junior lecturer. Universities are big. One in my city has 60,000 students, and 10,000 faculty over 3 campuses. Also in my country the concept of liberal arts education doesn't really exist, degrees are specialised so arts, science, social science, medicine, and business people don't really mix together. Sometimes they don't even set foot on the same campus.
Imagine the younger party is doing 3rd year and then goes on to a full, 5 year PhD. What actually happens is that these people resist for awhile, date anyway, and then marry 2 weeks after Thesis acceptance. And everyone knows but the rules are stupid so they don't say anything.
But it's far more acceptable for a post-grad and a full professor from a different university in the same city to hook up at a conference, even though the latter situation arguably has far more impact on career and the power imbalance far worse.
High school is different, as is the case with a direct Student-teacher relationship or senior admin. No one reasonable doubts that that's gotta be banned. I'd go so far as saying anyone in a department that the student takes classes at should be banned.
But a post-doc in a completely different faculty doing research and some lecturing? Or even a junior lecturer. Universities are big. One in my city has 60,000 students, and 10,000 faculty over 3 campuses. Also in my country the concept of liberal arts education doesn't really exist, degrees are specialised so arts, science, social science, medicine, and business people don't really mix together. Sometimes they don't even set foot on the same campus.
Imagine the younger party is doing 3rd year and then goes on to a full, 5 year PhD. What actually happens is that these people resist for awhile, date anyway, and then marry 2 weeks after Thesis acceptance. And everyone knows but the rules are stupid so they don't say anything.
But it's far more acceptable for a post-grad and a full professor from a different university in the same city to hook up at a conference, even though the latter situation arguably has far more impact on career and the power imbalance far worse.