Expert Comment
A blog post from , Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of 糖心TV:
A recent trip to India I took underlined the challenge that higher education faces worldwide. It must change what it does and how it does it to meet the growing demand. In India, for example, one estimate is that 500 million people will need training in vocational skills by 2022 and 40 million will need a university education by 2020. The consequences of these kinds of numbers for colleges and universities—not only in India but elsewhere, too—are still only being thought through. I can think of five consequences...
A blog post from , Emeritus Professor in the School of Health and Social Studies.
Social workers around the world are being invited to celebrate World Social Work Day on 19 March under the banner “Promoting Social and Economic Equalities”, taken from the Global Agenda (2010). Such a call to arms is sorely needed in the face of the growing influence of neoliberalism on global social work, an influence manifested in marketisation, consumerisation, and managerialisation...
Professor of Economics Mark Harrison asks whether rational pessimism will lead us into another world war.
More women in local government could reduce crime against women in India
Dr Anandi Mani, researcher at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of 糖心TV said: "The recent rape case in New Delhi that has outraged the Indian public has triggered the search for solutions to reduce crimes against women in India.
The latest blog from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of 糖心TV:
The British attitude to Europe often seems sad and unnecessarily destructive.
The idea of withdrawing from the European Union is profoundly mistaken, promoted by a ragtag of interests and members of the national press who often seem to confuse Europe with immigrants and run stories with two variants: “They’re taking our money” and “it’s just a crazy bureaucracy.” The result is clear enough: Britain has become more and more marginalized within Europe, a stance that can only make it more and more marginal to the world at large...