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Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 8:26pm
We can now present a table of the full TEF core metric results. Click through for some data-led fun.
The post TEF results – The full core metrics results appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 1:29pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
The former president of Goldman Sachs, that's who you want running things. Not poor people.
So said President Donald Trump Wednesday night during a campaign-style rally in Iowa.
And for a guy who campaigned on being a champion of regular folks, it was perhaps his most brazen admission to date regarding his opinion of low-income people, or those simply not wealthy.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 10:10am
The results are out and the reaction is flooding in. We've got a whole day of analysis and comment on the TEF results, as well as insights from the underlying data.
The post LIVE: TEF results day on Wonkhe appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 10:00am
Unpicking the opaque process of the TEF panel, Ant Bagshaw turns to the data to find out why some institutions - particularly in the Russell Group, fared better than others.
The post TEF results – What the panel statements say, and don’t say appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 9:04am
As TEF results are released, Mark Leach looks at the important staging post in the big debate about quality in UK higher education, and what the exercise might hold for the future.
The post TEF results – Do the prizes still glitter? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 9:01am
Was it Gold, Silver or Bronze? Here's our quick-find table of higher education institutions' results in the Teaching Excellence Framework.
The post The results of the Teaching Excellence Framework appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 9:01am
If the government wants the TEF to be taken seriously, it should stop making basic errors about the exercise in its press explainers, argues Ant Bagshaw.
The post TEF results – Lies, damned lies, and press releases appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 9:01am
UK universities have become world experts in spinning a good story on a ranking, and TEF is no different. Nona Buckley-Irvine has been digging through the Wonkhe inbox for the sector's first reaction.
The post TEF results – the sector spin machine gets whiring appeared first on Wonkhe.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 9:01am
It's hot off the press and there's plenty more to say, but David Morris has a run down of our first thoughts on the TEF results.
The post Eight first lessons from the TEF results appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Council of CanadiansThe Council of Canadians is condemning the Trudeau government’s response to the review on the Navigation Protection Act and its announcement that it will leave 99% of waterways unprotected in Canada.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 5:54am
Common Dreams staff
Those chosen by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to draft the Senate's version of Trumpcare legislation have collected, on average, $214,000 from companies that will be directly affected by major changes to the nation's healthcare system.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 5:52am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Threatening a climate-stable planet, the world's biggest banks are continuing business-as-usual by continuing to provide funding for "extreme fossil fuels."
So finds the latest Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card—produced by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, and Oil Change International—which defines the "extreme" sources as tar sands, Arctic oil, ultra-deepwater oil, coal mining, coal power, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 5:18am
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Ralph Nader
In 2006 a book was published called Losing Our Democracy by civic leader, Mark Green. His 21st book, it was the usual Mark Green brand of meticulous research with memorable examples. One would have thought such an important subject would have received wide coverage and circulation. In fact, it was almost completely ignored by reviewers and the media interviewers. In 2017, the danger of having the door shut on the practice of democracy by its citizens is more important than at any other time in recent history.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 4:52am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
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Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 4:16am
Martha Burk
During his speech announcing that the U.S. is ditching the Paris climate accords, President Trump took a strange detour to declare “our tax bill is moving along in Congress, and I believe it’s doing very well. I think a lot of people will be very pleasantly surprised.”
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 4:11am
Robert Jensen
Naomi Klein understands that President Donald J. Trump is a problem, but he is not the problem.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 4:07am
Olivia Alperstein
These days I find myself thinking often about a cartoon by the late Theodore Geissel.
In it, a woman with a sweater that reads “America First” reads aloud from a storybook to two children: “And the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones,” she relays. “But those were Foreign Children and it didn’t really matter.”
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 4:02am
Ramzy Baroud
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel.
When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive nor tailored to fit the need of a specific occasion. Rather, her words are resolute, consistent and are matched by a clear plan of action.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 3:56am
Jeffrey Sterling
Two years of imprisonment have given me ample time to reflect on the circumstances in which I find myself today. I often retrace my steps, carefully recalling each conversation I had and action I took that landed me in this prison. However, in the two years that I have served, my position has never wavered. I know who I am, and I know what my values are. My name is Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, and I am an innocent man who has been wrongfully convicted of espionage after dedicating my life to serving the U.S. government.
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Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 2:54am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
As a United Nations agency calls attention to the "unusually early" heatwaves gripping parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the U.S., a new study brings an ominous warning about more killer heat near certain to come.
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 2:32am
Gabe Murphy
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 2:16am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 2:01am
Jon Queally, staff writer
'We have a responsibility to raise our voice for justice and equality in society.'
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:54pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
As a cadre of thirteen male Republican Senators refuses to show most of their colleagues and the American people their Trumpcare bill, a new poll on Wednesday reveals that support for the House version passed last month continues to lose support.
"This bill is like a vampire. It can't live when exposed to the light of day. That's why the Republican strategy has been to keep it a secret."
—Ben Wikler, Moveon.org
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:20pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
On the heels of Democrat Jon Ossoff's narrow loss to Republican Karen Handel in the high-profile Georgia special election on Tuesday, many commentators are pinning the defeat on Democrats' glaring lack of an inspiring and ambitious progressive agenda.
"Democrats can excite their base and also win over voters who are frustrated with both parties with a vision to transform our nation into one that serves the many and not a powerful few."
—The Working Families Party
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:14pm
Robert Reich
Obstruction of justice was among the articles of impeachment drafted against both Presidents Nixon and Clinton. The parallel between Nixon and Trump is almost exact. White House tapes revealed Nixon giving instructions to pressure the acting FBI director into halting the Watergate investigation.
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 11:05pm
Jay Bookman
There are two ways to look at it, I guess.
From the point of view of the Republicans, they won Tuesday’s special election for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, and that’s all that matters. Politics is binary: You’re either going to Washington or you’re not, and Jon Ossoff is not. Karen Handel is. Republicans can also accurately claim to have taken their opponent’s best shot and remained standing.