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InFebruary of 2021, UC Berkeley released the final draft of its long-range development plan, which outlines how the school will continue to accept and house an ever-growing number of students over the next 15 years. This document lays out the university’s intentions to bulldoze People’s Park and build student dorms with approximately 1,000 new beds, to be priced at market rate or above and managed by a private company.
Impending cuts to state funding confront the UC system with a familiar crisis — a crisis about what education entails and whom it will serve. Though news of the cuts has arrived under the extraordinary circumstances of a pandemic, they are better understood as another link in a chain of events. Over the past two decades, UC administrators have imposed successive waves of austerity that have restructured education in ways that exacerbate existing social and economic inequality.
By Nikki Redmond, Servelec and Katie Latimer, University of Bedfordshire | 12 August 2019 Pioneered by Dr Carlene Firmin at the University of Bedfordshire, Contextual Safeguarding as an approach is gathering pace - broadly welcomed by local authorities and the children's social work professionals within them.
In her op-ed “Growing use of soy products has global consequences,” Nina Angelo argues that the consumption of soy-based alternatives to meat and dairy products exacerbates social, environmental and economic exploitation in Latin American countries. While it is true that soy production has expanded significantly in that region in recent years, Angelo’s subsequent analysis of the issue is based primarily on conjecture and leaves out many crucial considerations.
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