The PIE News

MARCH 27, 2024

So it makes me really happy to be able to provide those opportunities and that’s what gets me out of bed in the morning. What’s the best work trip you’ve ever been on? I’d say London because the diversity and the mix of cultures.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Who is a Black American? How we view the past is always colored by our present-day vantage point, but long before the recent surge in Black migration from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, African American history and culture had an international dimension. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. DuBois, John Hope Franklin, Michael A.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

literary culture was emerging that included merchants and middle-class pen-pushers who devoted their free hours to reading. But Gigante pursues another line of connection within associational cultural history. The letters of a gifted scout begging his employer to reimburse him for the books he's sent are almost Dickensian.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 16, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. I wondered whether it was because I looked too young or, dare I say it, young and Black ? A report by Advance HE shows that students who are Asian or Black increased by 3.6 per cent are Black.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

His articles on a wide variety of subjects—18th-century British literature, C.S. PBA is conforming to a toxic political culture, and they are playing a role that is a part of that culture’s script: a role that says, ‘We do not like to have uncomfortable conversations about race.’

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Language is increasingly viewed as a key component in American culture’s structures of power, which privilege masculinity, denigrate Blackness, equate darkness with evil or sin, and normalize or obfuscate inequality and difference. The very word “literacy” has acquired impressive cultural weight.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

French’s Born in Blackness , which underscores the centrality of Africa and Africans in the making of the modern world. Sweet might well ask what’s new in French’s book—that is, apart from Born in Blackness ’s clarity, eloquence, narrative power and evocative personal asides.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Einstein’s theories don’t work in black holes or at quantum scales.” In 1959, the British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow published a hugely influential book entitled The Two Cultures. In Snow's view, humanists and scientists existed in separate cultures that have "almost ceased to communicate at all."

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

The initiative has influenced the strategy of schools, heritage bodies and universities regionally and internationally, making Roman-era history, culture and language accessible to over 10,000 participants, including more than 7,000 pupils, many facing multiple intersecting disadvantages. They quite literally have the world on their doorstep.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, students with dyslexia can benefit from AI as a December 10, 2022, Washington Post article demonstrated when it described how ChatGPT is being used by a British landscaper with dyslexia to rewrite emails so that they are more professional and more easily understood.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Evaristo, along with former students and writers, issued a plea to Goldsmiths to reconsider the removal of “pioneering” postgraduate courses after plans were announced to cut the jobs in 11 departments.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

No one viewing the stamps would understand that Mexicans and Mexican Americans were among the true pioneers in the history of the West, that they had a critical role in colonizing, developing and shaping the culture and history of the region. Today, many Americans feel a void in our culture. Over the course of U.S.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Cuts of the scale being threatened at universities including Goldsmiths, Lincoln and Sheffield Hallam will devastate local economies and cause long-term harm to key British industries like the creative arts.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I left my job teaching History in schools because I was attracted by the taught Master’s course in Contemporary British History that was on offer here back then. As part of the course, we visited the National Archives, the (then new) British Library at St Pancras, Number 10 and the Cabinet Office as well as the Houses of Parliament.

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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

Christiana Bevier, Faculty The best instructors understand the value of laughter “Definitely one of my British Literature Survey courses. I loved the synthesis of medicine and culture and philosophy. I ended up getting a minor in Communications just because I wanted to take every course she taught!” I’ve never forgotten him.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Somewhere between mass culture and elite culture lies a murky, often maligned intermediate, middlebrow culture. The goal of middlebrow culture was to introduce unevenly educated adults to somewhat diluted versions of high culture in accessible, engaging and unthreatening ways.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The queer black author-activist is popularly understood to have compared the role of the artist to ‘exactly the same as the role of the lover. Persecution of Black ‘ supertokens ’. Funding bloodbaths , bullying bosses and toxic cultures in the arts, just like its counterpart in HE which remains elitist , racist and ableist.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It was the same with the British forces in Ireland, though in modern times the deliberate use of the technique of terror has been quite rare in its case. In the early 1990s, there was a tendency to see events as black or white, a trend predominant in the media and some academic circles.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

Yet as a classroom teacher, I find nothing more frustrating than the fact that many of my students lack basic factual knowledge or what others call cultural literacy. Between 1492 and 1820, Blacks constituted the overwhelming majority, some 4/5s, of those who crossed the Atlantic and arrived in the New World.

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