Image: Vron Ware Vron Ware, Open University You know the British Army is experiencing a crisis in recruitment when they start to [...]
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Ministers look the other way as part-time student numbers plummet
Paul Stanistreet, NIACE Figures released by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in April highlight the continuing decline in part-time [...]
Read moreLean and Mean: How obsessive cost-cutting destroyed job security
John Hully “I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left.” (Liam Byrne) For there to be austerity, there must be no [...]
Read moreJust Desserts? Class Disgust, Benefits Debates and Rethinking Value
Andrew Wallace, University of Lincoln ‘Austerity’ Britain has proliferated all manner of retro fashions, dispositions and attitudes, none more so than [...]
Read moreInstitutional Discourse and the Cult(ure) of Managerialism
Liz Morrish, Nottingham Trent University Some months ago, the Times Higher enlived a dull summer marking period with one of its [...]
Read moreHow would you like to die?
Image: Brightest comms + film. All rights reserved 2014 David Clark, University of Glasgow Have you ever considered how you might like [...]
Read more“Swamped” by anti-immigrant communications?
Hannah Jones, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Kirsten Forkert, Will Davies, Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Emma Jackson and Roiyah Saltus, Action Against Xenophobia [...]
Read moreWhat is Performative Social Science? The Potential of Arts-based Research and Dissemination
Kip Jones, Bournemouth University Performative Social Science (PSS) is currently gaining attention, even popularity, amongst academics who are particularly frustrated with [...]
Read moreThe Centre for Social Justice: Decision-Based Evidence-Making to Punish the Poor?
Daniel Silver, Becky Clarke, Amina Lone, Patrick Williams Iain Duncan Smith established the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think-tank in 2004 [...]
Read moreLampedusa: a cruel and corrupt system
Giacamo Orsini, University of Essex, Ilaria Vechhi, filmmaker, and Giacomo Sferlazzo, activist When their boat capsized less than a mile off [...]
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