Archive for May 2025

Dr. M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad is more than a distinguished academic—he’s a global advocate for social welfare and a pioneer in social work education. With a career spanning over four decades, he has left an enduring impact on social work education and research.

It should by now be clear that the administration’s domestic agenda has major goals that are irrelevant to issues of antisemitism. Rather, these officials mean to target universities for perceived liberal leanings, to deport students on ideological grounds, to clamp down on sexual and gender freedoms, and, it is now evident, to roll back the hard-won achievements of the Civil Rights Movement…. Yet even now, astonishingly, much of this increasingly explicit far-right takeover—enforced by authoritarian measures reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s — continues to pose as a crusade against antisemitism. Perhaps even more astonishingly, this rationale continues to be taken at face value

St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond – and its companion case, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond – asks whether religious groups have a right not just to start public charter schools with public tax dollars but to operate them as faith-based schools.

A report from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)… shows that rising numbers of elderly and frail people are stuck in A&E, often on trolleys in corridors. Figures obtained by RCEM via the Freedom of Information Act show that 1.15 million people aged 60 and over waited more than 12 hours to be transferred, admitted or discharged in England’s major A&E departments last year.

You can access the BASW Code of Ethics here: Code of Ethics

University of South Australia scientists have developed a highly sensitive method to detect illegal opioids and a veterinary sedative in Australia’s wastewater system, providing a vital early warning tool to public health authorities.

The government said new figures showed strong progress, including in a ministerial priority for a visit once every eight weeks. But the Independent Children’s Monitor Aroturuki Tamariki said this was a lower target than what the National Care Standards demanded.