Category: Uncommon Ground
BAME Students are still facing systemic barriers to success at elite universities. Brexit will only exacerbate this problem.
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Given the transportive power of movies to convey the richness of heritage, introducing British students to the classics would facilitate cultural cohesion
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Educators in recent decades have implemented a policy of 'inclusion' - special needs children being brought into mainstream schools. How has this fared?
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Multilingualism is the norm for most of the world, and yet Britain falls so far behind in both tolerance of this and in reluctance to learn other languages.
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For 3 years, Malcolm Children's Foundation Uganda has been a beacon of hope for children and their families seeking medical attention.
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Angelos Sofocleous, our friend and editor, has been prevented from debating freedom of speech at Bristol University due to ‘security concerns’. The University of Bristol Free Speech Society had invited our friend and editor Angelos Sofocleous to a panel discussing free speech. The first question they intended to ask was “is there a problem with […]
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The establishment of an official doctrine on gender identity is an unprecedented threat to academic freedom. Sex and gender should be subjects for debate.
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By Katie Barker The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a £400 million extra funding for schools to purchase those ‘little extras’. But, is this what schools need? The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s recent budget announcement of £400 million of extra funding for schools was remarkable in the way in which it united, in anger, […]
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Though the literary canon has fallen out of favour with many teachers, introducing it to students is still a valuable and worthwhile exercise. In one of the first tutorials for my Secondary English class at university, back when I was beginning a Master of Teaching degree a year and a half ago, the topic of […]
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In 1536 a 22-year-old medical student stole a body from the gallows. It was illegal, but his scientific curiosity prevailed. Andreas Vesalius would go on to change understanding of anatomy with his seminal work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). This was not what he set out to do, however. […]
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