A’ level results, HE and social mobility
How do this year’s A’ level results compare? For official statistics see the Department of Education official data.from 2003 onwards. It includes exam results and performance tables. For data on application and acceptance rates at UK universities try the UCAS data sites. It also includes some reports on factors associated with predicted and achieved […]
Trump’s inauguration – protests
See the website of the Womens March on London 2017 which has details on the global movement. There is also a statement about it on the Womens Equality Party website An interesting initiative is We the people which is a crowd-sourced project backed by artist Shepard Fairey. The initiative is seeking to raise funds to […]
Is Britain a socially mobile nation?
Find out with the latest annual report form the Social Mobility Commission. It finds in terms of education, earnings and housing significant and often growing disadvantages between rich and poor. One of the key findings, on page 124, is that ‘While a private school student has a 1 in 20 chance of entering Oxbridge, a student […]
British boards do not reflect ethnic diversity
The conclusion from the Parker review published this week which recommends quotas to enhance BAME employment prospects. See the CBI reaction. For background see his House of Lords briefing on black and ethnic minority employment trends. It includes links to earlier policy reviews, stakeholders and basic data. These include materials from the Ethnic Minority Stakeholder group […]
How diverse are UK journalists?
Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute. It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015. While 45% were women they are less well-paid than men and occupy fewer management positions. The report also found this to be true of Black […]
Rosa Parks digital collection
Just released by the Library of Congress, this great new online resource celebrating the life, civil rights achievements and legacy of Rosa Parks whose refusal to give up a seat to a white passenger sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the 1950s. It includes thousands of photographs, letters and manuscripts. See this key account of her […]
New York Public Library Digital Collections enhanced access
From January 2016 the New York Public library provides enhanced public domain access to its online collections which include thousands of stunning historical images. See this announcing blog post which has lists of possible uses: these include usage of bulk API data. A great example is this 5th Avenue now and then which compares 1911 […]
How far have we come? Lessons from the 1965 Race relations Act
Free access to this collection of essays from the Runnymede Trust. The 26 page pamphlet covers the socio-legal context of the act, the implementation of the act in the 21st century and the relationship between the act and the Magna Carta.
British Police and Race
British Police and Race The Centre for Crime and Justice has just provided free access to a collection of articles under the heading #BlackLivesMatter which discuss aspects of policing and race in the UK and elsewhere. They consider such concepts as institutional racism and the police and racial profiling. The site also made available videos […]
Does racial discrimination occur in British Universities?
Two recent reports have raised disturbing questions Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities. Boliver, V. (2015) (available free via Durham University- forthcoming in the Journal Sociology) considers why ethnic minority students are less likely to be admitted to Russell Group universities than white students. Also this week HEFCE released a report which […]
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