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Editor and journalist at Times Higher Education. Host of BBC podcast The Bomb. Former data journalist at The Times and The Sunday Times.
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Despite High-Profile Resignations, The Number Of Women-Led Universities Is On The Rise
There has been a 4% increase in the number of female leaders of the world’s top 200 universities — despite two high-profile female leaders, Harvard’s Claudine Gay and University of Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Magill, recently resigning — data gathered by Times Higher Education (THE) show. Women are the heads of 50 out of the world’s top 200 universities — 25% for the first time ever — with two more female leaders in the job compared with last year.
Despite High-Profile Resignations, The Number Of Women-Led Universities Is On The Rise
There has been a 4% increase in the number of female leaders of the world’s top 200 universities — despite two high-profile female leaders, Harvard’s Claudine Gay and University of Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Magill, recently resigning — data gathered by Times Higher Education (THE) show. Women are the heads of 50 out of the world’s top 200 universities — 25% for the first time ever — with two more female leaders in the job compared with last year.
Despite High-Profile Resignations, The Number Of Women-Led Universities Is On The Rise
There has been a 4% increase in the number of female leaders of the world’s top 200 universities — despite two high-profile female leaders, Harvard’s Claudine Gay and University of Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Magill, recently resigning — data gathered by Times Higher Education (THE) show. Women are the heads of 50 out of the world’s top 200 universities — 25% for the first time ever — with two more female leaders in the job compared with last year.
Shining a light on the mother continent
View the THE Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings 2023 results Africa will never reach its extraordinary potential without thriving universities. The first objective of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 master plan for transforming the continent into a global powerhouse is to “build a prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and sustainable development”.
Dynamic traffic: Asia’s changing internationalisation hotspots
Browse the full Asia University Rankings 2023 results The ever-changing mix of push and pull that governs international student flows is deftly illustrated by two contrasting dynamics that have seen Turkey’s internationalisation metrics rise in the latest Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings. On the one hand, the country has been on the front line of the response to a migrant crisis, taking in huge numbers of people fleeing conflict and seeking opportunity and new beginnings.
Asia University Rankings 2023: results announced
Browse the full Asia University Rankings 2023 results The number of South Asian universities in the top 200 of Times Higher Education’s Asia University Rankings has climbed to a five-year high, this year’s figures show. There are 32 universities from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka in the top 200 this year – a marked rise from 24 universities in 2022 and higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, when 25 institutions from South Asia made the cut.
From a council estate to the Houses of Parliament
When Angela Rayner was growing up she went to her gran’s house for a bath on Sundays because her parents couldn’t always afford hot water. She lived in a council estate in a home with no books and both her parents were on benefits. Now she’s shadow education secretary, and her inspiring story shows that ordinary women can both make it into politics and can make change happen.
Firefighting, in more ways than one
There are many people in the fire service who play a vital but hidden role in saving lives. As the enquiry into the Grenfell fire – the UK’s worst in recent years plays out on the news – we’re taking a look at this under-appreciated group of workers, many of them UNISON members. Did you know that when firefighters arrive at a blaze one of the first things they do is find a water hydrant to fix their hose to?
The shocking rise of TB in cows
New data shows bovine TB is on the rise in England, proving that independent meat inspectors are needed more than ever. The government has just published data showing 4,288 cows had to be slaughtered because of TB in March this year, up from the 3,900 in February, and continuing the general upward trend. Since 1996 – when the data goes back to – there has been a massive 980% increase in cows slaughtered because of TB.
Data: why NHS workers quit
At the end of June hundreds of thousands of people will be marching to celebrate and defend our National Health Service. The NHS is facing many problems because of under-funding, one of those being the decline in pay and working conditions for staff. UNISON is told this by our members on a daily basis, but one way to quantify it is to use the government’s own published data on why NHS staff are quitting.
These volunteers help Irish women access abortions in Britain
Ruby Lescott has had several Irish women she’s never met stay in her south London home. This isn’t Air BnB: Ruby is a volunteer with the Abortion Support Network, a group that helps Irish women who travel to England in order to end unwanted pregnancies. With abortion being illegal in the Republic of Ireland and only available under extremely strict circumstances in Northern Ireland, Irish women procure safe abortions by travelling to England.
The UK's disappearing meat hygiene inspectors
Meat has been in the news a lot lately, and not in a good way. Meat suppliers Russell Hume have just had to lay off hundreds of staff after an unannounced visit to their premises from Food Standards Agency inspectors. The inspectors found that meat was being incorrectly labelled and there were “serious non-compliance with food hygiene regulations”, at the company that supplied to Weatherspoons and Jamie Oliver restaurants, amongst others. Russell Hume had to halt production.
A neverending sentence
Britain’s approach to incarceration is coming under scrutiny. How did we get into this mess? Princetown prison on Dartmoor during the Victorian era This article is a preview from the Spring 2018 edition of New Humanist. Shirley Debono is a grandmother from Wales. She’s tanned, friendly and upbeat, and until 2006 led a normal life. When her son Shaun Lloyd was 18, he went out drinking with a friend.
‘I see first-hand how lack of funding is harming the NHS’
UNISON president and hospital catering assistant Margaret McKee gives a rousing speech at the union’s women’s conference in Liverpool. Ms Mckee works at the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast and told conference of the challenges she sees her colleagues and patients facing. “Operations are being cancelled,” she said. “People are dying before they can be treated.” And there are problems all public sector workers face: “The value of our wages has declined sharply as the cost of living has increased.
Take action against Philip Hammond's comments on disability
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond told MPs before Christmas that the UK has poor productivity levels because of disabled people.
From explosions to asbestos – the history of health and safety | Article, P.S data | News | UNISON National
This week (23 – 29 October) is health and safety week and the theme is ‘healthy workplaces for all ages’. We have laws around health and safety to be proud of – laws that save the lives of working people. But with an unacceptable number of people dying from work-related disease or accidents, we also have a long way to go.
The business of death in a growing world
This article is a preview from the Autumn 2017 edition of New Humanist. In the back room at Woking crematorium one wall is lined with large metal doors. Through a window the size and shape of a tennis ball, a piece of skull burns. Beyond that a fragment of pelvic bone sparkles orange. Funerals are done for the day and the mourners have left so I’m being shown round by Lynn Griffiths, memorial adviser, and Phil Morley, who has worked here for 37 years.
Working in mental health: the problems in five charts
It’s world mental health day this Tuesday (10 October) so to mark the occasion we’re looking at some data that shows what’s happening to mental health patients, through the eyes of mental health workers (we are a union, after all). In September, UNISON sent out a survey to people who work in mental health, and over a thousand people filled it in. One of the most telling things mental health staff said was that they felt there was an unsafe ratio of staff to service users.
The Manchester Arena terrorist attack – members’ stories | Magazine, moving | News | UNISON National
ADAM WILLIAMS was in a corridor with a patient at the Salford Royal hospital when he heard news of an explosion in Manchester. Twenty minutes later he was at the scene. As a paramedic with the North West Ambulance Service, Adam has been trained for this type of incident. But it was still a shock when he arrived. The sound of the scene is what hit him first. Screams of panic and pain, alarms, sirens from police cars, ambulances and fire engines. He saw people wounded and confused.
Women and trade unions | Magazine | News | UNISON National
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Reading between the lines: what's going on with our libraries?
A recent BBC One comedy called Tracey Ullman’s Show featured a sketch about librarians on the day their library is closing down. They tap dance because they don’t have to be quiet any more and sing “our arses sacked, no ifs or buts, by a bunch of Tory cuts.” It’s worth a watch for the comedy, but there is also a dark truth underlying their jokes. Our libraries are shutting down at an alarming rate and library staff are losing their jobs.
A new threat to free choice: how anti-abortion protesters got organised
Anti-abortion campaigners are becoming more vocal in the UK, helped along by tactics borrowed from America’s religious right. Illustration by Stephani Von Reiswitz This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. It’s early on a Saturday morning and a building in a leafy part of west London has been surrounded. A group, mostly men over 40, stand and pray.
It's all about how you tell a story
Recently we’ve been trying out different ways of telling members’ stories using digital tools. This week we checking out Steller. So, what is this Steller thingy? It’s an app that allows you to create a virtual storybook. Basically, you upload your photos and video clips, choose a theme, add some words and a beautiful book-like thing is created that let’s your readers swipe to turn the pages. It’s very easy to use. What are we doing with it? We tested Steller at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference.
Protest-free zones are a must outside clinics
Even where abortions are legal, women are still having to fight to exercise their rights without harassment. Why are women still having to campaign for the right to a harassment-free abortion? asks Rosa Ellis. A stand-off was taking place outside a London clinic: two groups, huddled under umbrellas. On one side, mostly men over 40; on the other, mostly women in their twenties. One group was there to tell women approaching the clinic that they shouldn’t have an abortion.
Was the aim of the bedroom tax always to shift debt from the government to benefit claimants?
The bedroom tax might be the clearest example of the coalition punishing the poor for the financial crisis. The bedroom tax might be the clearest example of the coalition punishing the poor for the financial crisis It was claimed by the government that the bedroom tax had two aims – to reduce spending on benefits and to help the 300,000 people living in overcrowded accommodation by incentivising those tenants ‘over occupying’ to move to smaller homes. But the maths didn’t add up.
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