Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Where is future growth going to come from?
On February 17, 2011, Professor John Van Reenen gave a lecture on the future of economic growth in Britain, continuing the LSE […]
Playing the numbers game in policy
The statistical illiteracy of the population – including policy-makers – was the subject of a discussion at the British Library on 13 […]
In defense of psychoanalysis
There’s no denying that Freud’s theories are deeply embedded in the fabric of modern life. However, as Robert Rowland Smith explores in […]
Flourish or fail? Higher education in crisis – the global context
The Higher Education Policy Institute’s Eighth Annual Lecture was given by Dr Jamil Salmi, the World Bank’s Director of Tertiary Education, at […]
In front of one’s nose
With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, many prominent public figures declared that America had “entered a ‘post-racial’ era.” But as sociologists Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David Dietrich argue, “racial oppression is still systematic in America.”
“The immaterial global village”: debunking myths of the internet
In “The Place of the Internet in Anthropology” (in the March 2011 issue of Anthropology News), UCLA PhD student Adam Fish addresses the […]
American medical colleges propose greater focus on social sciences
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has proposed a number of reforms to the MCAT – the standardized test taken by […]
Breaking silences on broken promises
At a recent seminar of the Campaign for the Public University, someone raised what is an increasingly pressing question. Why aren’t more […]
