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Monday, 3 July 2017 - 7:51pm
Jake Johnson, staff writer
A top Justice Department official tasked with reining in corporate crime and upholding accountability standards has resigned, citing "conduct at the top"—a thinly veiled reference to President Donald Trump and his staff—that made her job impossible.
Monday, 3 July 2017 - 5:45pm
There are noises from deep within all major political parties now expressing concern about tuition fees. Are the political winds starting to blow against the current system?
The post Is the tuition fee system now under threat? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Monday, 3 July 2017 - 9:05am
UKRI is starting to take shape behind the scenes. James Wilsdon has spoken to dozens of key players to lift the curtain on what promises to be a transformation in the UK research and innovation landscape.
The post Nine brains or megabrain: who’s making UKRI? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Monday, 3 July 2017 - 9:01am
Universities have many roles, and they play them simultaneously in a complex and interwoven existence with students, academics, communities and each other. Today we publish an essay collection with Shakespeare Martineau which untangles strands from this web of connections to help understand better how these roles manifest. This has been an enjoyable project, and one... read more
Monday, 3 July 2017 - 9:01am
Some in the sector have claimed that TEF could harm UK universities' international reputations. Nona Buckley-Irvine looks at those institutions which have the most to gain and lose from their outcomes.
The post What could TEF mean for international recruitment? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Monday, 3 July 2017 - 2:58am
- Common Dreams staff
Thousands of anti-globalization activists took to the streets and waterways of Hamburg, Germany Sunday ahead of this week's G20 summit.
Police said at least 10,000 demonstrators marched peacefully in the rain in a prelude to the July 7-8 meeting, where 21,000 police with dogs, horses and helicopters from across Germany will attempt to protect the leaders of the world's 20 largest economies. Trump, Erdogan, Putin, Merkel, the Saudis, and over 100,000 protesters are also expected.
Monday, 3 July 2017 - 12:38am
Peter Dreier
Most media reports have portrayed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as aggrieved victims of Donald Trump’s Thursday Twitter tantrum. It can’t be pleasant to be attacked so personally by the president, but Scarborough and Brzezinski are fighting back. On their MSNBC show “Morning Joe” on Friday and in an op-ed column in the Washington Post entitled “President Trump Is Not Well,” they chastised Trump for his vicious and vulgar attacks on her appearance, for referring to her as “low I.Q.
Monday, 3 July 2017 - 12:18am
- Common Dreams staff
Canadian rocker Neil Young and Promise of the Real have just released the video for their new Trump resistance song "Children of Destiny," urging listeners to “stand up for what you believe, resist the powers that be.”
The video for “Children of Destiny” intersperses scenes of recent large-scale protests alongside imagery like picnics, children waving American flags, fighter jets and Fourth of July parades.
Sunday, 2 July 2017 - 11:47pm
César Chelala
Recently, as I picked up a book from my bookcase, I realized that one word in its title had the answer to a problem that for months had been bothering me. The book is “The voice imitator” by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. And the word that solved the mystery, you may already have guessed it, is “imitator”. What imitators do, in many cases is impersonate a celebrity.