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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...manager for a university with students in prison, my role involves working with the prison authorities to facilitate higher education study in their establishments. My experience in this role has helped to highlight the many difficulties faced by both prisoners who wish to engage in higher-level study and prison staff who are tasked with supporting them. I also lecture...
Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...managed by national and multi-national space agencies, but commercial companies are playing an increasingly important role. The debate over the ethical, philosophical, governance, legal, scientific and commercial aspects of space exploration must evolve to consider the interests of all stakeholders. Do stakeholders’ different concerns about contamination mean we should...
Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...manage to deflect criticism. Yet the OBR has confirmed that weaker GDP growth and tax receipts left the 2015-16 deficit at £76 billion, four times its £18 billion forecast. Is the timing right? Chancellor Hammond can also argue that historically low interest rates on public debt make this the right time for governments to borrow more. In a world seemingly awash with...
Banking crimes without end
Society, Politics & Law

Banking crimes without end

...management firms take quarter of PPI payouts’, the other warning that ‘Pensions overhaul could trigger raft of mis-selling’. Each was a telling reminder that the financial services sector is criminogenic, a series of markets and firms where crime is part of normal business practice and within which UK banks are “serial offenders”. In recent years, the financial...
Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?

...managed, focus-driven candidates that authenticity comes across as lunacy”. Yet in one way, Corbyn and Sanders are actually utterly conventional: they’re both older white men. A new generation of progress? The West’s progressives are speaking to as wide a sector of the population as they can and preaching solidarity across the lines of race, gender, and age, but...
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...managing conflict and go out into the world prepared to enact peace in their everyday lives. References, sources and links Gee, D. (2022). Peace at the Heart: A Relational Approach to Education in British Schools. www.quaker.org.uk/documents/peace-at-the-heart Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (2013). Intercultural Competences: Conceptual and Operational Framework. UNESCO.
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...manage the adversities of life and build emotional resilience. The success of Harry Potter may also indicate the way children need to engage with magic, mystery, terror and fantasy Hay & Nye, writing from an educational research perspective, suggest that spirituality is innate in children. The features they identify in children's spirituality are presented by Margaret...
Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...do you know that?’. 12. What are you planning to work on next? Having done two fairly narrowly-focused books, I want to broaden out and write an account of the whole of Elizabeth I’s reign. There are endless biographies of Elizabeth, but surprisingly enough there’s no book giving a straightforward political history of the reign in a single, manageable volume....