No grey areas in a green's world

Article Abstract:

An examination of the fear expressed by some researchers that the environmental lobby is abandoning scientific balance in order to push an anti-capitalist agenda by putting forward, simplistic, frightening imagery. Patrick Moore, ecologist and former president of Greenpeace Canada, notes that the green movement has always been a broad church, but from the late 1980s on, following the end of communism, the green movement began to be taken over by hard-core leftists who started pushing their anti-capitalist political agenda. It is argued that if scientists and researchers from outside the business environment - scientists from universities, for example - begin to criticise the environmental groups, then public opinion may turn away from these organisations.

Analysis, Public opinion, Media coverage, Environmental movement, Environmentalism

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'I have things to give this country, but I am not allowed to'

Article Abstract:

While persecution around the world is leading to an increase in the number of refugee academics, they are not being made to feel welcome in the United Kingdom. Used as an example is the case of Kebebush Mulugeta, who, after being forced out of Slovakia by neo-Nazis who targeted her because she was originally from Ethiopia, came to the UK. Mulugeta, who holds a PhD in economics and had worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Economics in Bratislava, argues that the system in the UK does not know what to do with people like her and that it was actually easier for her to get ahead in Slovakia.

Labor force information, Immigrants, Refugees, Care and treatment, Employment

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'Education was a rumour - you think you'll never get in'

Article Abstract:

An examination of the Open Book widening-access project run by Joe Baden at Goldsmiths College, University of London. The aim of the project is to give people from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as former alcoholics and criminals, a chance to enter higher education. The difference between Baden's project and other similar ones is, according to participants in the scheme, partly Baden himself, as, being from a working-class background and being a former alcoholic and ex-con himself, he can understand the reservations that many of the participants on the course have.

Services information, Services, Education, Education, Higher, Higher education, Socially handicapped, Disadvantaged persons, Educational aspects, Baden, Joe

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