Tag: the human mind

The Empty Classroom Crisis: Why Are Students Staying Away?

Student absenteeism is no longer limited to low-quality higher education institutions (HEIs). It has spread across all universities and colleges, including the most prestigious. Furqan Qamar Escaping lectures has become the norm rather than the exception in higher education. Most students now prefer to skip classes at the slightest pretext. Even strict measures–such as disallowing… Read More The Empty Classroom Crisis: Why Are Students Staying Away?

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On the Poverty of Student Life Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, with a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It (Strasbourg, 1966)

Situationist International and the Students of Strasbourg  November 1966 On the Poverty of Student Life: The Little Pamphlet that Started a Revolution The Situationist International (SI) was founded in 1957 by a half-dozen European avant-garde artists. Recent historical events, chiefly workers uprisings in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, convinced them that a social revolution was… Read More On the Poverty of Student Life Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, with a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It (Strasbourg, 1966)

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Lecturer claims Indian students in UK struggle to find jobs, end up returning home

A lecturer highlighted how Indian students prioritised part-time jobs over studies in the UK, leading many to return home without securing jobs. ““The reality is that most Indian students I teach lack basic communication skills, confidence, and curiosity. They are shy, reserved, and often passive in their learning” Mahipal Singh Chouhan A UK-based lecturer’s candid… Read More Lecturer claims Indian students in UK struggle to find jobs, end up returning home

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Teenage boys are in crisis. The message of ‘Adolescence’

Harmeet Kaur The world for kids today looks a lot different than it did for their parents. A scene from the hit Netflix series “Adolescence” captures just how vast that difference is. In the show’s second episode, Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe (Ashley Walters) is at a secondary school to investigate why 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen… Read More Teenage boys are in crisis. The message of ‘Adolescence’

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Trump’s War on Education

Chris Hedges Education is meant to be subversive. It gives students the ability and the language to ask questions about reigning assumptions and ideas. It questions dogma and ideology. It can, as Zinn writes, “counteract the deception that makes the government’s force legitimate.” ************* The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some… Read More Trump’s War on Education

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The Price of Monotheism

Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion NB: This is one of the most thought-provoking studies in the history and philosophy of religion that – in my limited reading – I have come across. The author Jan Assman (1938-2024) was a German Egyptologist, cultural historian, and religion… Read More The Price of Monotheism

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It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human

A generation who came of age online now feel deprived of real connections. The upside is they are doing something about it Gaby Hinsliff It’s the love-hate relationship that defined a generation. We think we know all about teenagers and the phones to which they’re so umbilically tied: sleeping with them under the pillow, panicking… Read More It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human

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