People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
Is it worthwhile to motivate students to attend lectures punctually? Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff has created a buzz among educators in the US for deploying a monitoring system to track student attendance in class. The monitoring system consists of …
University life is known for wild parties, chaotic flatshares, and heavy drinking, which are viewed with affection as a youthful rite of passage. However, these behaviours are not appreciated by everyone, and the rapid expansion of some universities is creating …
Two 15-year-old students, Rosie Duthie and Euan MacIntosh, are among the first 16-year-olds in the UK mainland who will be able to vote in next year’s referendum on Scottish independence. Euan plans to vote "yes" because he believes it is …
Academics and politicians in senior positions have criticised UK universities for neglecting to address the pervasive issue of racism against both staff members and students as an investigation executed by The Guardian discovered evidence of discrimination across the sector. Minority …
Today it was revealed that a headteacher had to take action after more than 40 students were suspended for threatening to kill a girl during a dispute over a boy. Pam Orchard referred to the incident as "mob rule" and …
Upon reading Rosie Irvine’s letter about her family’s use of "lozzerk" to refer to lounging together while watching television, I was pleased to learn that this word has been documented in the English Dialect Dictionary. Compiled by dialectologist Joseph Wright …
As a new academic year begins, the UK continues to grapple with the challenge of decolonizing higher education, which has been brought into even sharper focus by recent incidents of racism in universities. At its core, this effort aims to …
A recent study by independent thinktank Social Market Foundation has indicated that a rising regional inequality in education is the cause of many children underachieving in school. The report states that while 70% of pupils in London achieve five A*-C …
Leading experts in the field of sex research have criticised the “severely flawed” research into British brothels that was published last month by the partly-defrayed Poppy Project – a research initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice. The academics argue …