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A scholar of intensive after-school ‘hyper education’ says it’s becoming a more common extracurricular activity for children of all ages.
Short-term schemes make it difficult to assess, but nine basic income-style programmes from Canada to Iran reveal some fascinating outcomes.
After years of neoliberal policies eroding the tax base to pay for high schools, mandatory online learning curriculum from classrooms could be the next international money-maker.
Even in the most tense and dangerous of moments, the elite has found a way to come back together.
In a national survey, transgender individuals had worse employment outcomes, lower incomes and higher rates of poverty than cisgender people.
Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
The T-Mobile-Sprint merger is the latest example of weakened enforcement of antitrust laws, which reduces competition and exacerbates already-record levels of inequality.
A team of researchers have developed a method in which Australian children can have access to schools outside their catchment area.
Jane Goodall’s comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.
The dean of the only school of philanthropy sees some good in the attention charity-related scandals are generating.
Race, gender and social class still play a massive part in deciding who gets ahead in film, TV and radio.
Interviewing dozens of South African cricketers across all levels of the sport finds a perception that transformation has, in fact, slowed since the early 1990s.
Pollutants like nitrogen dioxide are a silent killer, but everyone isn’t equally at risk.
An often invisible force is undercutting support for policies that help Americans facing economic hardship.
Nobody else, apart from CEOs, has enjoyed a similar rise in their fortunes since the 1980s.
A new analysis of over 400 actors shows that gender discrimination plays a major role in Hollywood salaries.
Modern viewers: Scrooge doesn’t discuss what he’s learned or ask for redemption. He swiftly negates the life he would have led, had it not been for the ghostly interventions.
For migrants, prejudice can be a life and death matter. Research in India and South Africa shows life is considerably harder if migrants have a darker skin and come from a poorer country.
Stigmas surrounding mental health can create difficult or even dangerous situations for employees struggling with mental illness.
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
