Posted . Financial globalisation has given international capital flows a central role in the functioning of the global economy, leading to considerable economic research over the past 30 years. Making the most of these capital flows has always been a challenge, as they can bring both good and bad. More...
Accommodation crisis forces students to sleep in tents
New HEPI paper warns of crisis in UK creative arts education
The UK’s pipeline of creative talent is fracturing because Art, Media and Design are being downgraded in schools, according to a new report – A crisis in the creative arts in the UK? – from the Higher Education Policy Institute by Professor John Last, Vice-Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts (NUA). More...
Collegiate recovery movement gains strength in midst of addiction crisis
As the nation looks for solutions to the complex addiction crisis underlying its staggering overdose epidemic, one idea gaining strength is to confront the culture of widespread substance use on university campuses with something called "collegiate recovery programs" (CRPs). More...
What You Can Learn From the Social Media Crisis That Wasn't
What You Can Learn From the Social Media Crisis That Wasn't
Ken Wheaton, Advertising Age, 2016/12/06
When I was the editor of a student newspaper so many years ago I was amazed how sensitive people were to every word we wrote. I knew our influence was far less than people thought. More...
How can universities help solve the creative arts crisis?
The creative arts have come under fire for poor graduate outcomes. But universities need to defend the important skills they provide. More...
Aung San Suu Kyi award suspended by UK union over Myanmar crisis
Unison one of a number of institutions in Britain to withdraw honours in response to humanitarian crisis. More...
Oxford college drops Aung San Suu Kyi from common room's name
Decision by students at St Hugh’s, where the leader of Myanmar also studied, is over her response to the Rohingya crisis. More...
How better training can help fix the research reproducibility crisis
It’s a common story. A bright young graduate student starts her research program with high ambitions. Six months later she is staring at hundreds of genomes, thousands of pages of digital text, or hundreds of thousands of environmental measurements and wondering how to even begin to analyze them. More...
Don't Let a Crisis Become Your Legacy
Having a clearly identified and trained team of professionals can be the difference between a full-blown crisis and a page seven story in the campus paper. More...