This paper offers a geographical analysis of the concept of 'distinction' in relation to student mobility within the UK. The analysis in this paper is based primarily on interviews with Scottish students who have chosen to study in England, and English students who have done likewise in Scotland. The paper problematises the concept of 'distinction' in the stratified higher education system of the UK. The paper's originality lies in showing how global forces affect these intra-state student flows and how 'distinction' as a driver of mobility is signified. The research offers a starting point in understanding the glocalisation of student mobility.

This article presents a UK supermarket worker’s experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing during a period of uncertainty, Jay’s narrative reveals how the sudden and constant transitions between mundanity and extremity on the shop floor evoke conflicting emotions and work intensification that disrupt and reconstruct normality. His accounts describe violent customer behaviours, absent management, a lack of clear organisational policies, and the different views of appropriate health and safety measures among colleagues. It illustrates how liminality in the workplace at a time of crisis can endanger employees whose seemingly mundane jobs become extreme.

Scotland is often perceived as having a relatively welcoming view towards migrants and is presented as such by its politicians and policymakers. This positioning sits within a broader political context in which the Scottish Government favours immigration but has limited policy levers with which to directly influence it. This paper seeks to scrutinise the supposition that Scotland can be seen as ‘different’ to the rest of the UK in terms of how immigration is perceived in the public realm. This is pursued through the analysis of attitudinal data to explore public views on migration, the potential drivers of these perceptions and their implications for future immigration policy in the context of the 2014 referendum on the constitutional future of Scotland. The research finds that the public in Scotland does hold relatively positive views towards migration and that this could be related to Scotland's particular experience of population in and out movements. However there is evidence of some (growing) hostility towards migration on the part of the general public in Scotland and a possible link between nationalist leanings and opposition to ‘Others’. These findings have significant implications for debates regarding possible future immigration policies in Scotland.

Are intra-national student flows driven by the same forces as international student mobility?This paper addresses this question by analysing cross-border student mobility in the UK. The paper identifies four principles that one might expect to drive the destination choices of students from Scotland enrolling in English universities. Following a statistical analysis of student destination choices, it is argued that cross-border moves from Scotland to England are stimulated by some of the same global forces as international student mobility (such as a desire to accumulate cultural capital), but in terms of destination choice the imaginaries held by Scottish students of 'good' places to study in England to accumulate cultural capital are constructed differently from the imaginaries of international students.

Centre national de Recherches zootechniques, Jouy-en-Josas (Seine-et-Oise) SOMMAIRE L'étude de la consommation spontanée d'énergie a été réalisée chez le rat en croissance, selon qu'on lui administre en mélange et à volonté un régime semi-synthétique, ou en deux repas séparés, une quantité équivalente de la même source azotée et de l'énergie à volonté. Deux expériences ont ainsi été effectuées, d'une durée de 4 et 8 semaines, au cours desquelles la source azotée était constituée soit par une farine de hareng, soit par un tourteau d'arachide. Lorsque le Rat est placé en dessous des conditions de croissance maximum, l'administration séparée des éléments azotés et énergétiques provoque, par rapport à l'alimentation mixte, une réduction sensible de la consommation spontanée d'énergie. La légère dépression de la crois-sance qui en résulte se traduit essentiellement par une diminution du dépôt de lipides dans les tissus, la rétention azotée n'étant pratiquement pas modifiée.