This Essay examines the history of affirmative action, recent Supreme Court oral arguments in cases SFFA v. Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill, perspective each individual Justice on these cases, prospects for Court’s rulings. It frames issues around irony Brown Board Education II (1955), where U.S. ordered that school desegregation occur “with all deliberate speed.” Many critical commentators view th...

There is an ironic and costly contradiction in the attempt to integrate technology into education. While evidence of the educational benefits of technology abounds and investment in hardware and software has dramatically increased, relatively few teachers use technology regularly in their teaching and the impact of computers on existing curricula is still very limited. What lies behind this con...

The outcome and impact of the EU Referendum result in 2016 has raised some interesting questions about living with ideological divisions Northern Ireland how traditions Ireland, on island now stand relation to one another. There are ‘identity effects’ Brexit unionism nationalism, where old prejudices have found new contexts for expression around political arguments been reshaped or reimagined b...