Global Citizenship as a Floating Signifier: Lessons from UK universities

Global health impacts of policies: lessons from the UK

BACKGROUND The UK government committed to undertaking impact assessments of its policies on the health of populations in low and middle-income countries in its cross-government strategy "Health is Global". To facilitate this process, the Department of Health, in collaboration with the National Heart Forum, initiated a project to pilot the use of a global health impact assessment guidance framew...

Global Citizenship as the Completion of Cosmopolitanism

A conception of global citizenship should not be viewed as separate from, or synonymous with, the cosmopolitan moral orientation, but as a primary component of it. Global citizenship is fundamentally concerned with individual moral requirements in the global frame. Such requirements, framed here as belonging to the category of individual cosmopolitanism, offer guidelines on right action in the ...

Global Citizenship as a Learning Outcome of Educational Travel

Consistent with the Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) values, universities need to adequately prepare their graduates with the skills and knowledge needed in a global society. Correspondingly, U.S. universities have prioritized the development of study abroad to foster a global mindset. We offer that short-term, experiential educational travel programs provide a critical platform to f...

Citizenship-as-Identity in British political discourse: New Labour and the UK Citizenship test

Alternative Medicine in UK Universities

Poppleton University made history when it decided to re-name its Department of Physics and Astronomy as the Department of Evidence-based Physics. This restructuring became necessary after the foundation of the new Department of Alternative Physics and Astrology. How did this come about? The Finance and Public Relations departments at Poppleton, with rare foresight, had spotted an opportunity to...