Archive for May 2024

The poll of more than 2,000 scholars conducted for the University and College Union (UCU), which represents 120,000 faculty and staff members in the U.K., highlights growing unease over the digital tools commonly used in academe, such as the virtual learning environments used to facilitate teaching, electronic systems to evaluate teaching performance and metrics-based systems such as SciVal that enable managers to scrutinize research publications and citations.

The “latte line” is the infamous, invisible boundary that divides Sydney between the more affluent north-east and the south-west. Historically, people north of the line enjoy better access to jobs and education, and can capitalise on rising property wealth. This has reinforced economic inequality. Despite our image as a classless society, similar spatial divides have long marked Australia’s other capital cities as well.

In 1782, a judge in England gave husbands the right to use violence on their wives as long as any implement used was not thicker than their thumb. This standard of measurement led to the coining of the term “rule of thumb”. Society has thankfully made enough progress to find such archaic ideas abhorrent…. UN data shows that, on average, five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family.

The State’s child and family agency, Tusla, terms such arrangements ‘Special Emergency Arrangements’ (SEAs). The accommodation used includes short-term rental properties and Airbnbs. They are operated by private, for-profit companies, and provide accommodation for children who are no longer in the care of their family having been court-ordered into the care of the State.

The youth program that introduced Birchmore to the officers is among hundreds of such chapters at police agencies around the country. Created by the Boy Scouts of America decades ago, law enforcement Explorer posts are designed to help teens and young adults learn about policing.

Students at Brown University dismantled their encampment after reaching an agreement with officials to present a divestment plan to Brown’s governing board.