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The latest blog entry from the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
A good friend of mine from the United States, observing the British higher-education scene, noted that, whereas the United States had taken 30 years to make its system more market-oriented, it was taking England only two.
The result, I think, is a kind of general culture shock..
The latest blog entry from the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
Around the world, immigration has become a prime political concern. I hardly need to point to the number of countries where immigration has become a major electoral issue, whether in the United States, Europe, or Australia.
And, of course, immigration policy can cut across university policy, often in destructive ways...
Dr Trevor McCrisken on Obama ending the war in Afghanistan, and the other articles in Volume 88 Number 5 with the Editor Caroline Soper.
What happened in Vegas should have stayed there, but somehow it was allowed out and got away - Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics explains why.
Anandi Mani, Associate Professor of Economics, is one of the authors of a study on women’s political representation and its effect on crime in India. As the government reserves for women a third of all seats in local government institutions like the village council, the researchers sought to find out whether having female political leaders at the local level would have a positive effect on women. Instead, they found that the reported number of crimes against women rose. Ms. Mani explained in an e-mail interview with India Ink why that’s not bad news.