By Ramna Saeed
The United States is often seen as meddling in Pakistan's internal affairs, but supporters of Imran Khan hope Donald Trump may throw his support behind the imprisoned former Prime Minister.
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By Karen Boardman, Head of Department, Early Years Education, Edge Hill University
The National Literacy Trust’s annual literacy survey 2025 reveals that one in three children and young people do not enjoy reading, with only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds stating that they enjoy reading in their spare time.
This is the lowest figure recorded since 2005 when the National Literacy Trust started to gather this data. This report reveals that children and young people’s enjoyment of reading is now…
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By Agnibha Banerjee, PhD Student, The Open University
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the exoplanets we’ve already detected: their sizes, what they’re made of and whether they have atmospheres.
Our team has now provided tentative evidence for a sulphur-rich atmosphere on a world that’s 1.5 times the size of Earth and located 35 light years away. If confirmed, it would be the smallest known exoplanet with…
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By Rajiv Prabhakar, Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance, The Open University
European Equal Pay Day is the date when women – symbolically at least – start working for free because of the gender pay gap. This gap, of about a month and half of salary per year between men and women, means that from November 15 2024 women will effectively stop earning while their male counterparts continue to get paid.
This gender pay gap is…
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By Audrey Cameron, Chancellor's Fellow, Science Education and BSL, University of Edinburgh
The Conversation is proud to publish this article as British sign language-first in video form with the translation written in full beneath.
Creating British sign language (BSL) signs for abstract climate concepts is very different from tangible objects like animals, but the process is equally fascinating. While a rabbit sign might directly represent its physical appearance, climate concepts require a deep understanding of scientific processes to create meaningful visual representations.
Our sign development process involves a…
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By Vanessa Brown, Senior Lecturer Visual and Material Culture, Nottingham Trent University
This weighty book of lush interior shots selected and presented by Steven Brindle is a rare and delightful treat. London: Lost Interiors is an opportunity to glimpse inside the homes of London from a time well before it was common to photograph them – Victorian, Edwardian and early 20th century London. On top of that, about half the homes in it no longer exist, not to mention the fading and remodelling of the insides of those that do.
Popular ideas of what interior design in England was like…
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By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
Armed supporters of Bolivia’s charismatic former president, Evo Morales, stormed a military facility in the central Bolivian region of Cochabamba on November 1. The group forced their way into the facility, seized weapons and ammunition and, according to the government, took more than 200 soldiers hostage.
Tensions have been rising across the country over the past…
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Reports of a phone call between the US president-elect, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin (although quickly denied by the Kremlin) have given a first flavour of the tone and direction of their relationship in the immediate future. According to the Washington Post, Trump spoke with Putin on November 7, warning…
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By Lisa Bitel, Dean’s Professor of Religion & Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.
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By Enayat Nasir, Doctoral Research Assistant in Educational Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York
The Taliban are increasing religious education and removing lessons about the arts, culture and human rights – moves that will shape the future for millions of Afghan students
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