Archive for July 2025

Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States, the assault on higher education is part of a broader war waged by authoritarian forces aiming to dismantle the pillars of not only academic freedom, dissent, and human rights, but also the essential foundations of democracy itself. Universities are no longer seen as spaces of intellectual freedom and critical inquiry but as battlegrounds for ideological control. Campus protests are met with police brutality; students are abducted for their political views, and those who dare to speak out against the prevailing orthodoxy face expulsion, censorship, and criminalization.

After 26 years of teaching, research and leadership at the University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) professor and former dean Faye Mishna is retiring from her academic role…. Under her leadership, the faculty strengthened its approach to research-informed practice, developed new community partnerships and launched a range of hands-on, community-based teaching, programming and practicum opportunities.

Disabled people’s organisations, such as Inclusion London, WinVisible and Long Covid Advocacy, have told the Guardian that plans to exempt only existing claimants from the cuts will create a “two-tier” benefit system that “condemns” future disabled people to poverty.