Andrew Dunn
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A collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Download the full text from the website. What trends does it predict for the future use of technology in Higher Education. What are the challenges? Bring your own device and learning analytics are seen to be some of the key areas in […]
What does your vice–chancellor earn?
How do pay and perks compare at the UK top universities? Find out in the annual report from UCU union Transparency at the top? This was published as part of its campaign for greater transparency in UK university executive pay. It also includes expenditure on air flights, hotel accommodation and expenses. How does your pay compare? […]
Celebrating LGBT History month
February is LGBT History month http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/ Take a look at the Gay t-Shirt archive! Wearing Gay History a digital archive of American LGBT t-shirts. created by Doctoral student Eric Gonzaba who digitized the entire t-shirt collection of the Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives in Indiana T-shirts have been used to express gay identity, politics and pride […]
The unhappiest people in the UK are those aged 45-59
According to the latest 3 year survey from the office for National Statistics. Find out more from the website. There there are also maps of levels of happiness for local authority areas. There are also excel data tables at a local level for anxiety, satisfaction and happiness. The BBC has an interesting online test – […]
Digital Fan Magazine Collection (1911-1963)
Free access to the full text of a growing number of popular magazines produced for film fans in the mid 20th century via the Media History Digital Library. A great resource for American cinema, popular culture and social historians. They include Silver Screen (1930-1940) and Motion Picture [Magazine] (1914-1941). Read this example of Hollywood magazine […]
Global Social Theory
This free website provides a useful starting point for students of social theory . It introduced them to key topics (transnationalism, intersectionality, settle colonialism, modernism) and thinkers (Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon, Paulo Freire). It is edited by Gurminder K Bhambra Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and a primary focus is in highlighting […]
Racism in British Universities
The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70% reported sometimes or often being subject to bullying or harassment by their managers. The Runnymede trust has just published a collection of essays on […]
Freedom in the World 2016
Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant disputed territories around the world. Read the methodology for the full facts and download the data in a zip file. International Idea also […]
Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers
The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers. These comprise 23 newspapers covering the period from the 1950s to the early 21st Century and thus covering key political events such as the Iranian revolution of 1979. The complete list of titles can be found on the project website […]
UK/EU renegotiation
Read the full text of David Cameron’s statement to parliament on the UK government website and the proposals sent by the European Council Parliament TV has a recording of the debate and there is a transcript in Hansard. For access to free discussion and news services search for ‘Brexit’ on European Sources online, an online database and […]
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