Sam Wren-Lewis Since the election result all the way back in 2019, you’ve probably read a handful of “Why did that [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Why are so few men involved in educating Britain’s youngest children?
Joann Wilkinson and Jeremy Davies If you were looking to live in the most gender-equal country in the world, you wouldn’t [...]
Read moreON THE FRONTLINE: Crisis in India and its Universities – an open call to the UK HE sector
The recent Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) legitimizes discrimination on the basis of religion. There have been large scale protests [...]
Read morePOLICY AND POLITICS: Rational vs alternative reasoning – what ordinary people choose
Markus Holdo, PerOla Öberg and Simon Magnusson This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. [...]
Read more‘There is so much work to be done’: religion, radical solidarity and public life
Anupama Ranawana It is time, as Priyamvada Gopal says, to become “difficult dissidents” and “uncooperative naysayers”. It is time to take [...]
Read moreThe counter-extremism shift in ESOL policy and the double-securitisation of Muslims
Kamran Khan In 2019, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and the Conservative MP, Sajid Javid both endorsed separate approaches to [...]
Read moreOn data rentiership in ‘Big Tech’: Why Silicon Valley might not be the innovation model we’re looking for
Kean D Birch It’s interesting living in Toronto right now. It feels like we’re at the epicentre of global debate about [...]
Read moreBad capitalism drives out free markets
Vedat Akgiray Free societies need finance for economic welfare, and progress is almost impossible without a well-functioning financial system. After the [...]
Read moreDegrees of Freedom – Prison education at The Open University
Rod Earle The 50th anniversary of the foundation of The Open University (OU) is a landmark worth remembering and celebrating, even [...]
Read moreWhat does the UK 2019 election result mean for working and learning conditions within Higher Education?
Donatella Alessandrini, Emily Grabham, Suhraiya Jivraj and Rose Parfitt As results from the 2019 General Election sink in, many of us [...]
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