Oor Willy
Oor Willy, Your Willy, A’body’s Willy The National Library of Scotland has launched the Oor Wullie’s guide website for children. See how this presents Scottish identity and listen to the audio files.
Parental monitoring of internet use
Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014 The latest report from Ofcom presents findings on the use of new media by British children and the role of parents in monitoring Internet use. EU Kids Online has related reports from EU nations The literature database of the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational […]
Right to education: global database
Right to education global database New from UNESCO a gateway to information on legal and civil rights relating to education worldwide. Includes country profiles, laws, policies and monitoring reports submitted to UNESCO.
Feminism
The Fawcett Society launch new blog: Feminist Matters It will cover a range of topics from a feminist perspective. First topics covered are the labour party conference and its relevance to women. He for she campaign launched by the United Nations to campaign for gender equality launched by actor Emma Watson UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador. […]
Students and immigration
Foreign students and Immigration: Should they be counted in net figures? The debate continues. Other good places for research: UK official immigration data Parliamentary discussion: the Home affairs select committee has some recent reports. Universities UK has research on public attitudes towards foreign students. IPPR conducted research in 2012 HEFCE has data on demand for […]
The Independent Commission on Fees Report 2014
http://www.independentcommissionfees.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ICoF-Report-Aug-2014.pdf Report with analysis of trends in higher education applications, admissions, and enrolments with break down by socio economic background. Also information on gender gap in applications, applications by mature students and for part time study. It includes analysis of the impact of fees on applications and admissions. UCAS also provides official data on applications. The […]
Social media and universities
Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. Topics covered in the piece include are staff over-sensitive to criticism and can student websites be regulated. See other full-text reports on education issues this week. Selfie culture: see […]
Social Entrepreneurship
A new standard to measure social impact is now available from the EU. Other good resources include: The Global Social Entrepreneurs Network UK Government website publications/data on social investment policy Looking for definitions, case studies and research? Try CASE (Duke University); Skoll Centre (Oxford University) and Stanford University Social Innovation Review. Further your studies with a free […]
EU data
EU Open Data Portal The EU Open Data Portal Expansion site provides free access to datasets from more EU institutions. These include Eurofund survey on European working conditions in Europe. Don’t forget other EU data can be found on Eurostat.
Global Consumption Database
Global Consumption Database Just launched by The World Bank and International Finance Corp (IFC). Useful for finding data on how people in developing countries spend their income. Statistics are available by country, rural or urban location, income level. For India and South Africa regional data breakdowns are also provided. Topics covered include expenditure on health, […]
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