Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephen Gorard, Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock A government-appointed review panel has just released its long-awaited report on England’s national curriculum. Its stated intention is to improve curriculum quality for all children, but particularly those “for whom the system is currently not…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin Olsen, UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin have submitted simplified plans to Nasa designed to return US astronauts to the Moon’s surface. These plans focus on Nasa’s Artemis III mission, which…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elias Michaut, PhD Researcher in Archaeology & Heritage, UCL Les Douaires today. Elias Michaut, CC BY The 1969 Stonewall riot, a pivotal episode of LGBTQ+ resistance to a police raid, was a turning point in the western gay rights movement. Today, Pride events are held each…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Patrick Diamond, Professor of Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London Flickr/Number 10, CC BY-NC-ND There is increasingly bad blood between ministers and civil servants in the UK government. The trend has been apparent for at least a decade, with the mood between officials and ministers…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Turns, Senior Environment Editor, The Conversation This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. A close friend of mine escaped her home in the British Virgin Islands during Hurricane Irma in September 2017. She and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ezenwa E. Olumba, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University Nigerian police standing guard in Osun, south-western Nigeria. Tolu Owoeye / Shutterstock The US president, Donald Trump, is threatening military action in Nigeria over what he sees as the persecution of Christians there. He has accused…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Vaughan, Lecturer in International Security, University of Leeds The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said that Russia may could carry out nuclear weapons tests for the first time since the cold war. In what appears to be a response to a statement by Donald Trump…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation At dawn on October 28, residents of Rio de Janeiro woke to the sound of gunfire. Battles continued throughout the day in the favelas of Alemão and Penha, as police mounted a huge operation targeting the Commando…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol Frankenstein’s creature is coming back to life – again. As Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece airs on Netflix, we provide an anatomist’s perspective of her tale of reanimation. Could an assembled body ever…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrea Wright, Senior Lecturer in Teaching and Learning Development, Edge Hill University In March 1955, an 18-year-old Jim Henson built a puppet from his mother’s old coat, a pair of blue jeans and some ping pong balls. The lizard-like creation first appeared on Afternoon, a television…