As many readers will probably agree, graduating from university is a strange experience. One has to find their way in a new post-academic reality.
Read MoreStudent Protests Spring? A global movement or isolated local anger?
In this post I will examine the different student protests in the UK and the Netherlands, and ask whether they form part of a new truly global student movement with concerns transcending the level of university parochialism, or whether they are just isolated incidents.
Read MoreWho are the people?: Why Pegida is as much about Germany’s self-image as about Muslim immigration.
In recent weeks, Germany has been rattled by a grass-roots, anti-immigration social movement called Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida). For months, this movement has organized street marches every Monday evening in cities throughout Germany, most successfully so in the East German city of Dresden
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