Reading Beyond the Headlines

The ‘British Policy Style’ and Mental Health: Beyond the Headlines

Recent Mental Health Acts provide evidence of diverging UK1 and Scottish government policy styles. The UK legislative process lasted almost ten years following attempts by ministers to impose decisions and an unprecedented level of sustained opposition from interest groups. In contrast, the consultation process in Scotland was consensual, producing high levels of stakeholder ‘ownership’. This a...

Encouraging science reading beyond the curriculum.

Students in genetics and reproductive physiology, junior-/senior-level courses with enrollments averaging 76 and 41 students, respectively, were encouraged to read popular science books for extra credit. The objectives of the readings were to reinforce basic class concepts by forming ties to everyday life, and to expose students to a genre that can provide information to prepare them as citizen...

Fevered headlines

There are occasions when readers can get a realistic picture of some topical issue only by examining what several different newspapers say from their respective standpoints. In the case of the influenza that hit Britain in January, this approach would have brought more confusion than clarity. Not only were there flatly contradictory accounts of the severity of the outbreak, and whether it quali...

Predicting Reading Failure: Beyond the Peadiness

Beyond the Headlines: An Editor’s View on Latin American Studies in ERLACS

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