Reading today's Guardian, there were claims of a crisis in HE in general, and the humanities in particular as a result of a less than 5% cut in funding to the sector. I'd have been more convinced if I hadn't spent so much time recently reading ten year...

Now that I have learned that grounded theory allows a researcher to bring works of fiction into a research project as data, I shall consider South Park episode 1205, in which Eric Cartman pulls off a miracle of WP in the persona of "Mr. Cartmenez" with...

We were given a couple of pages for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's "Search" magazine summarising a paper they commissioned,"Early labour-market experiences of graduates from disadvantaged families" by Andy Furlong and Fred Cartmel to discuss as part...

And then we have this-an article in the Times Higher from March 10th 2000 called "Unequal Opportunities" It discusses the efforts of Bradford University to make its ethnic make-up conform with that of the surrounding area, with one of the highest...

"Student Retention in Higher Education"- Liz Thomas-pp.439-440. I can't see any of her publications which correspond with the two pages we were given, but they represent themes she expands on elsewhere. She argues that students are most likely to...