Higher Education, Immigration, Internationalisation, Legal, Personal Thoughts

Are international students the pawn to end to Civil Servants’ strikes in the UK?

Short blog on my initial thoughts on the recent communiqué on increase in visa fees and IHS to fund pay rise. Blog also includes snippets sent to PIE news to be published later today. Strikes have resounded across the UK for more than a year now: railway workers, teachers, doctors, postal workers; Civil Servants have… Continue reading Are international students the pawn to end to Civil Servants’ strikes in the UK?

Gender Empowerment, Legal, Personal Thoughts, Reviews

Celebrating the first Black woman in the US Supreme Court

It is a historic moment with the double celebration of the US Supreme Court welcoming its first Black female member - Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and four female associate justices serving in the Supreme Court for the first time. US Supreme Court 2022Source: https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justices.aspx After President Trump appointed female Asso. Justice Amy Coney Barrett,… Continue reading Celebrating the first Black woman in the US Supreme Court

Gender Empowerment, Legal, Personal Thoughts, Reviews

Remembering Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“When I'm sometimes asked, when will there be enough women on the Supreme Court, and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.” Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. On the morning of 19th Sep 2020, I woke up to the news… Continue reading Remembering Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg