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Professor of Accounting at the University of Edinburgh, Christine Cooper, said: “The evidence suggests that measures to bring back outsourced contracts would enable better public services at lower cost. “Whether to outsource to the private sector is no longer a question of ideology, it is a question of economic interest and empirical evidence.”
In short, in the spring semester of 2024, many of our campuses came to resemble armed camps. What’s more, alongside such brute displays of force, there have been congressional inquisitions into constitutionally protected speech; federal investigations into the movement for divestment; and students suspended, evicted, and expelled, not to speak of faculty disciplined or simply dismissed.
Welcome to Repress U., class of 2024: a homeland security campus for the ages.
Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has given $5 million to 12 state universities to encourage social work in behavioral health.
Located in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec, the town of Val-des-Sources is home to what was once the world’s largest asbestos mine. Indeed, the town and the mineral, which was long used for insulation but is now considered a carcinogen, are so inextricably linked that, until 2020, it was named Asbestos. In the short documentary Once the Dust Has Settled, the Canadian filmmaker Hervé Demers finds the town in a period of transition – long removed from its heyday as a thriving mining town, but with many residents uncertain about proposals to vote for a new name.
There were between five and 10 suicide attempts and 10 incidents of self-harm in January 2024 alone at the site in Essex – the highest since the site opened in July 2023 – according to data exclusively given to ITV News by the Helen Bamber Foundation and Doctors of the World. But Home Secretary James Cleverly said people weren’t telling the truth about their mental state. Responding to ITV News’ findings, Mr Cleverly said: “The simple truth is, often when people come to this country illegally they do lie to further their own causes.”