Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!
The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November. In it she argued that the government should charge Starbucks tax to save libraries. Read more about it on the Reading Agency website http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/jeanette-winterson-delivers-the-inaugural-the-reading-agency-lecture.html and in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/19/amazon-starbucks-google-libraries-jeanette-winterson
Web Index
The World Wide Web Foundation has launched the Web Index: http://www.webfoundation.org/2012/09/web-foundation-launches-the-web-index This is a country-by-country global study that measures the impact of the Web on the world’s people and nations. 61 developed nations are covered and a variety of economic social impacts considered, including the the infrastructure and level of accessability. Ultimately the nations are […]
Data on child poverty
The TransMONEE database: Data on children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: this database is associated with with the UNICEF MONEE project on the living conditions of children and adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). It provides free access to 180 economic and […]
Database of Research on International Education
http://www.idp.com/about-idp/research-database/quick-search.aspx Managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and containing details of more than 8,000 books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of international education from publishers in Australia and abroad. Monthly updates of new additions are sent to this list. There is also a Twitter feed on the site. Good […]
Sketch Engine
We now have a new subscription to Sketch Engine. Sketch Engine is a corpus query system which enables the occurences of words within large corpora of texts to be identified and the grammatical and locational uses of words to be explored. This resource is displayed on our A-Z database list.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-12
The latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings are now available for the 2011-12 academic year. Universities are ranked by 13 performance indicators, including Teaching, Research, Citations, Industry Income and International Outlook. California Institute of Technology is World No. 1, University of Oxford is European No. 1 (World No. 4), and University of Leicester is […]
EURYPEDIA – European Encyclopedia on National Education Systems
EURYPEDIA is an online encyclopedia with 5000+ articles summarising national education systems and lastest reforms across 38 European countries. You can search or browse the database by country and topic, and subscribe to an RSS news feed.
UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education
With over 120 maps, charts and tables, the UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education enables readers to visualize the educational pathways of girls and boys in terms of access, participation and progression from pre-primary to tertiary education. The Atlas features a wide range of sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators from the UNESCO Institute […]
UK Education select committee uses Twitter
Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.com/#!/search/AskGove For more infromation see: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/news/ask-gove-news/
British Social Attitudes survey released
http://www.natcen.ac.uk/study/british-social-attitudes-28th-report Major social attitudes study released on the net by National Centre for Social Research. Conducted annually since 1983. This year’s report covers the following themes: Political engagement, Devolution, Private education, School choice, Higher education, Environment, Transport, Housing, NHS, Childhood, Child poverty, Religion full text online . http://ir2.flife.de/data/natcen-social-research/igb_html/index.php?bericht_id=1000001&index=&lang=ENG Earlier results (summaries) from 2009 can also […]
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