It is an intriguing coincidence that just as the Augar Review plunges England into yet another round of introspection on tuition fees, the biggest idea sweeping higher education finance across the globe is one that England itself abandoned for no particularly good reason about a decade ago. Between 1998 and 2006, the headline tuition fee […] … learn more→

Are you a frequent flyer? If so, you may have built an enviable stock of airline miles you know you’ll never use. If so, you can either leave them to go to waste — or you can make money off them instead. But what about if you want to buy airline miles and make big […] … learn more→

Have you been given the responsibility of teaching English to students from Thailand and you have no idea where to start? Come to think of it, every language will be difficult to learn, and English is no different. However, you can make the process easier for students. No one said that teaching English in Thailand […] … learn more→

We are university teachers and every day many young people knock on our door. They tend to be ambitious, bright and hardworking. They have a wide network of friends and have the support of their families. But no matter how balanced they seem: we have observed that they are increasingly more likely to seek our support not only […] … learn more→

Since there has been an institutionalized system of orientation, dividing young people into school subjects, and then into trades, we constantly denounce the difficulties and cruelty of this system. But can there be, in society as it is, a “happy orientation”? If the processes of orientation and the social inequalities that are linked to them are […] … learn more→

“Sub-prime” refers to loans which basically should never be made, because the borrower has no legitimate chance of paying it back. The sub-prime real estate crash of 2008 came very close to revealing the fundamental fraud of the entire economic system, only the last minute printing of trillions of dollars and handing it over to […] … learn more→

According to the recently published Natwest Student Living Index, 64% of university students rated the stress of studying for their degree as seven or above out of ten. Other studies have estimated that up to 82% of UK university students suffer from stress and anxiety, and the number of students dropping out of university due to mental health problems […] … learn more→

Turning your PhD into a book is a mark of success in many disciplines, especially the humanities. Many people pursue this goal immediately upon finishing their PhD as part of an overall academic career strategy. I didn’t have to, because I already had a job and I wanted to start building a research reputation in […] … learn more→

“Discover what your professors never taught you in school,” an American white supremacist group’s website declares. Many of the site’s “education” links lead, predictably, to neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist publications. But tucked in-between a description of “white identity” and “the perils of diversity” is a link to Robert Putnam’s mainstream scholarly treatise, Bowling Alone – […] … learn more→

For almost two years now, Americans have been confronted daily by ominous tidings. We are living through stressful times. Reading the news feels awful; ignoring it doesn’t feel right either. Psychologist Terri Apter recently wrote about the “phenomenon in human behavior sometimes described as ‘the hive switch,’ where “catastrophic events eliminate selfishness, conflict and competitiveness, rendering humans […] … learn more→