Author: maroonsquare

Last year, around 42% of marriages in the UK ended in divorce. In opposite sex marriages, nearly two-thirds of divorces were initiated by women. So, why do so many relationships fail? And is there anything we can do to save them before it’s too late? Authors Matthew Fray and Joanna Harrison are trying to address why we so often struggle or fail in long-term relationships. We’re not talking about those major marriage crimes like infidelity, domestic abuse or gambling away the family savings. They’re focusing on those everyday relationship difficulties – from lack of intimacy to communication problems, lack of trust, or even just forgetting to empty the dishwasher – the things that almost every couple struggles with from time to time. Matthew and Joanna joined Emma Barnett on BBC ...

Meaning of Autonomy What does University autonomy mean? Does it mean, for example, that the government must take no interest of any kind in university governance? Does it mean, on the other hand, that the government can impose a strategic direction, merely allowing universities to choose methods of implementation? The word Autonomy is coined from the Greek words auto nomos (auto meaning self, and nomos meaning law). Put together it means to give oneself one's own law. Contextually, it is the capacity of an individual or institution to make an informed, un-coerced decision by its own self, it is the state or condition of having independence or freedom to decide a course of action. The European Universities Association for example, defines it as including organizational, financial...

Some words we must agree help to deflate and disempower. One of such words is; Feminism, for the particular reason that it is a word of broad canopy. It hides all manners of women, even those clutching the slave whips.   Beyonce’s label, Ivy Park, launched in collaboration with British fast fashion company Topshop, is quickly falling short of her stated goal to “celebrate every woman and the body she’s in while always striving to be better”.   Beyonce Not every woman is being celebrated in Beyonce’s world and definitely  not the women workers in South Asia, where her clothes are made. Last week’s exposé by a British tabloid  revealed that the female workers responsible for making — but not  inspiring, designing or profiting from — Beyonce’s clothin...