If we want to help students develop evidence based views, we can’t deny their standpoints.
O-Week has changed drastically since the 1960s, especially the student newspaper reportage, which was much more provocative back then.
The University of Queensland
A new book from historian Sally Percival Wood explores how the politically active student media of the 1960s changed Australia socially, culturally and politically.
A young man wearing an African National Congress shirt joins in student protests in South Africa. Party politics and student politics shouldn’t mix.
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It’s time to change how student representatives are elected at South Africa’s universities. The existing process gives far too much space and power to political parties.
Students didn’t swing it for Ed Miliband.
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The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill 2014-15, having been rushed through the House of Commons with alarming speed and ease, has passed its second reading in the House of Lords. It is now in the final…
Here at the University of Edinburgh, freshers’ week has just seen a new cohort of students moving into the city. As older students jostled through freebie-stuffed stalls scrabbling for the newcomers’ attention…
Participation is commonly viewed as the cornerstone of liberal democracy. In Europe, however, the decades since the 1980s have been marked by falling participation and increased disillusionment with institutional…
Turkey erupts in protest at the death of a 15-year-old boy.
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Demonstrations have broken out across Turkey following the death of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy, who fell into a coma during last summer’s Gezi park protests after he was struck in the head by a teargas…