By Peter Schmidt. A federal appeals court has ruled that the First Amendment protected an adjunct instructor’s public complaints about how her employer, an Illinois community college, deals with people in her position. In a decision handed down on Thursday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously held that the First Amendment precluded Moraine Valley Community College from firing Robin Meade, a part-time business instructor and adjunct-union head, for telling an international organization that her college mistreats adjuncts in ways that hurt students’ education. More...
Marking boycott set to affect 'thousands of students'
By Agencies. Academics will refuse to set or mark university coursework during a boycott that will affect thousands of students at 69 higher education institutions. Read more...
British men earn 20 per cent more if a parent went to university
By Sarah Knapton. The children of graduates earn far more than those whose parents had a high-school education even when they achieve the same qualifications, a study has found. Read more...
Students offered degree course in ‘Wasting time on the internet’
By Rachel Jones. Cat videos, status updates, chat apps, online shopping, websites and blogs – the internet is certainly a serial procrastinator’s dream, but as of 2015 it’s also the subject of serious academic inquiry. Read more...
How private schooling is deciding the millionaires of tomorrow
By John Bingham. Study by Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that graduates who attended an independent school earn 7pc more than their colleagues even if they went to the same university and do the same job. Read more...
Male graduates put earnings above job satisfaction
By Glen Poole. A survey of 27,000 graduates has found that young men still expect to earn more and work longer hours than women, but expect to be less satisfied in their job. Read more...
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