Máire Messenger Davies University of Ulster As reported in the last Three-D, media policy issues have been almost constantly in the headlines, and thus also of major concern to many academics; this is particularly due to the phone-hacking story and the Leveson inquiry, which have also raised issues about the teaching of ethics (or lack …Continue Reading
Neil Gavin Liverpool University The MeCCSA CCES Network had a successful conference in Luton, at the University of Bedfordshire campus, with a lively debate around three papers. These straddled the issues of energy security coverage and its relationship with climate change; readers’ comments on tabloid climate stories, post-climategate; and the construction of climate change debate …Continue Reading
Peter Golding Northumbria University It is spring and a young academic’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of the REF. Whether it should or it shouldn’t many academics are very much focused on the assessment of research to take place in 2014, the submission deadline for which is November 29th 2013. Across the land universities are …Continue Reading
Sue Thornham University of Sussex This issue of Three-D features reports on the excellent 2012 conference held at the University of Bedfordshire, as well as photos of some of its academic and less academic highlights. You can also see the shape that next year’s conference will take, when it will be hosted by the University …Continue Reading
David Rushton Institute of Local Television This one calendar year course will be at masters level. It follows the successful – if short lived – masters in local TV management run by the Institute of Local Television in conjunction with Queen Margaret University (College) in 1999-2000. These students graduated to form Edinburgh Television, some to …Continue Reading
Farida Vis University of Leicester When the UK was hit by a wave of riots last summer, the government was quick to suggest that they were categorically not linked to poverty, lack of social mobility, the economic crisis, cuts to education, but rather that those who looted were simply criminals. Moreover, the Prime Minister along …Continue Reading
Marcela Ganea Artifex University of Bucharest In a world increasingly inter-dependent, multiculturalism can be an asset for the progress of a society, if a country has good educational policies in place that allow integration and to take advantage of the valuable cultural differences in attitudes towards work and human development. In 2009 , three students …Continue Reading
Gavan Titley National University of Ireland, Maynooth According to The Guardian (22 March), Ireland is back in recession. While many people may be surprised to hear that it had exited it at all, of late, this news was cast as a domestic and European political blow, undermining Ireland’s post-sovereign role as a ‘poster child for …Continue Reading
Story by: Jackey Reuben, Illustrations by: Chantal de Broglio This is a short satire by a MeCCSA member about marketing in a University. The Exit There is always darkness before the dawn – wherever we might be. Do we have to continually re-enact the trauma, and was it this that was echoed, along with clip-clop …Continue Reading
Gholam Khiabany University of Sussex The impact of the government’s devastating attacks on universities and the corporatizing of education under the banner of “choice” are more visible in post 92 universities and nowhere more so than the beleaguered London Metropolitan University. The marketplace test, which according to government will allow students to choose freely from …Continue Reading
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