Postgraduate election wishlist (Advocate 26 01)
Universities and their students are in crisis.
Federal research investment is abysmal. The Government is increasingly demanding that universities deliver more but with less funding, forcing universities to enrol ever more full-fee paying students to offset inadequate Government investment. More...
‘English Universities in Crisis’
By Scott Jaschik. Many Americans are watching the chaos in Britain as the country searches for a path forward consistent with the vote to leave the European Union. But for years now -- well before the Brexit vote -- English universities have seen turmoil as a result of a shift in government policy on higher education, imposing tuition and competition in ways that would seem familiar to many Americans. More...
Advancing new tools for the EU budget to foster crisis management and economic convergence
On February 5 2019, France Stratégie and the OECD have organised a workshop to take stock of what we have learned collectively over the past years on crisis management and economic convergence in the euro area, and to explore how the EU could help progress in that direction, notably by using new budgetary tools. More..
Les Gilets jaunes : la partie émergée de la crise sociale française ?
Depuis novembre 2018 et le début de la contestation des Gilets jaunes, la France connaît un mouvement social triplement inédit. Plus...
Délibérer en politique, participer au travail : répondre à la crise démocratique
Aux yeux de beaucoup, la démocratie ne fonctionne pas de façon satisfaisante. Cela se traduit par une désaffection et, depuis quelques mois, par l’expression d’une colère. La société et les individus qui la composent ont profondément changé alors que le fonctionnement de nos institutions et le comportement de ceux qui les dirigent ont, eux, continué à fonctionner globalement de la même manière. Plus...
Crise sociétale : "J’ai mal à mes corps intermédiaires !"
Reading University in crisis amid questions over £121m land sales
Exclusive: University reports itself to regulators over loan taken from agricultural trust. More...
England’s school system is in crisis – could Labour’s National Education Service be the solution?
An Analytical World View: Tsunami Crisis
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Analytical World View: Tsunami Crisis
A lot of people, when they compare blogs (and personal publishing in general), tend to compare on a one-to-one basis: how a given blog compares to a given newspaper, how a given blog compares to a course or program. This article shows nicely the effect of the blogosphere taken as a whole, not as one of its parts. More...