What do students think of their courses?
Find out by downloading the 2016 Student academic experience survey from Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy. It includes opinions of overall satisfaction, value for money and fees. Also offered are student perceptions of teaching skills, workloads and feedback and there is a section on student well being. Find more on […]
Switzerland rejects Basic Minimum Income referendum vote
Find out more using LSE’s research posting. This has links to the results and analysis of the issues at stake. For discussion of why many commentators consider a minimum income as necessary look at this World Bank data on purchasing power of consumers in different nations worldwide and this Oxfam report that stated that 62 people […]
The British press made a battle out of the miners’ strike
Analysis from The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/war-on-the-picket-line-how-the-british-press-made-a-battle-out-of-the-miners-strike-60470
Family Online Safety Grid Directory update
Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID) was first launched in 2010 by the Family Online Safety Institute in partnership with UNICEF. Its aim is to provide a series of country files on guidelines, organisations and regulations governing and regulating Internet safety, especially with regard to children. For more reports on issue relating to child Internet […]
Arab Development Portal
An initiative of the Coordination Group of Arab, National and Regional Development Institutions (CG), the Islamic Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which aims to provide a one stop shop for news, reports and statistical data covering economic and social development in the […]
Atlas of African Health
Just released by the WHO includes data on progress towards health-related Millennium Development goals. It forms part of the Wider WHO African Health Observatory which has a wealth of reports and data on health and health care in Africa. It also has country profiles and the full text of recent issues of the African Health […]
Are Britons suffering too much stress?
Certainly this month examinations cause anxiety for many! The ONS released some shocking statistics which showed a rise in student suicides in England and Wales 2014. See the BBC discussion. And the Health and safety Executive estimated that In 2014/15 stress accounted for 35% of all work related ill-health cases and 43% of all working days […]
Pride of Place
A great project led by scholars at Leeds Beckett University with the support of English Heritage which is working to produce an interactive map relating to places in England which have been important to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. These include landscapes and buildings as well as ‘secret histories’. As well as […]
What questions will be in the next census?
Recently the Office for National Statistics undertook a consultation on future topics and questions that users of the England and Wales census wanted or felt should be included. See the results and future research plans: all materials can be downloaded from the ONS website These include the documents submitted by the users which explain how […]
World Cities report 2016 launched
From UN Habitat this year’s annual report focuses on the theme of urbanization and development: emerging futures. It considers problems urban areas are facing relating issues such as inequality, climate change, insecurity. View a slideshow of the worldwide growth of cities from 1990-2015.
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