Category: Politics

‘Here’s how it feels’: how a Lebanese businessman lost everything in five years of turmoil and war | Lebanon

From the balcony of his flat in a monied suburb nestled in the mountains overlooking Beirut, Ibrahim Abdallah could see the smoke rising from a night of airstrikes that pummelled the ghostly southern suburbs below. Columns of white smoke drifted over the smouldering, scarred and deserted tower blocks and up into the tree-lined hills, where […]

Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff | University of Oxford

Oxford University has been accused of relying on academics on “Deliveroo-style” and precarious fixed-term contracts to give the majority of its tutorials, after new research revealed just a third of lessons are taught by full-time professors. Data obtained through freedom of information requests by the University and College Union and shared exclusively with the Observer, […]

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