January 2020

  • Anti-racist scientists and their accidental refining of scientific racism

    Adam Rutherford is a more than decent science writer and BBC radio broadcaster.  He has a book out on 6 Feb called; "How to argue with a racist". He's previewed it with a piece in The Observer and in this...

  • Poorer students 'under-applying' to universities

    Interesting snippet in The Guardian on UCL research which shows that students from poorer backgrounds are much more likely that others to apply to universities and courses which require less than their 6th form achievement. This is 'under-applying' .This is...

  • Fresh Ed podcast

    Will Brehm's Fresh Ed podcast is super resource. Bath staff have appeared on it a number of times (see last post) and the conversations are always refreshing and thought-provoking. Give it a listen!

  • The absurdity of Human Capital Theory

    Bath's Hugh Lauder is an international authority on the death of Human Capital Theory as a workable, or now even coherent, economic theory. In truth, it's a political and administrative convenience gone way beyond its explanatory power. Yet national and...

  • Gender/Sex Recognition

    A detail about the status quo seems often missed by folk dialoguing on trans issues as they pertain to social policy and education in particular. It's that the 2004 Gender Recognition Act does not conform to theories which dichotomise gender...