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Learning to Stand on its own Two Feet: The Office for Students and the Crisis in Higher Education in England

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 206-210, January/March 2025.
Abstract In order to address an ever‐growing crisis in higher education in England, policy makers need tools capable of meeting the challenge. Yet the Office for Students has been roundly criticised for its shortcomings as a regulator for the sector, weakening the response to its plethora of problems.
Timothy J. Oliver
wiley   +1 more source

Rupture access to hydrous minerals controls aftershocks in subduction zones. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Gunatilake T, Gerya T, Connolly JAD, Miller SA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Temperature Variations on Shaft Wall Fracture and the Mechanical Properties of Hot Dry Rock. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Ma C, Zhang S, He Q, Zhao K, Yang C, Zhang Z.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Structures control gold mineralization in the western Allaqi shear belt of Egypt from high-precision geophysical and remote sensing datasets. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Eldosouky AM, El-Wahed MAA, El Monsef MA, Attia M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

How earthquakes organize stress. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Brodsky EE, Farge G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

Aseismic slip and seismic swarms leading up to the 2024 M7.3 Hualien earthquake. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Peng W, Chen KH, Bürgmann R, Hsu YJ, Chen YH.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source