Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
College Costs Linked to Risky Teen Behavior
An article by Tom Jacobs in Miller McCune Magazine discusses new research that links community college tuition rates in the US with […]
“Don’t look to the Ivy League”
In an essay published in the London Review of Books, Howard Hotson analyses the THE-QS World University Rankings and concludes that market […]
“UEL losing its soul”
The latest blog-post on ‘Sociology and the Cuts’ is a pulling-no-punches critique of the proposal by the University of East London to […]
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 […]
Public letter from academics on AHRC decision to promote Big Society research
188 academics, mainly from the UK, have signed a letter published in today’s Observer newspaper, on the decision by the Arts and […]
When did the Big Society turn into Big Brother?
A column by Tom Sutcliffe in today’s Independent addresses the question of academic freedom posed by reports that the Arts and Humanities […]
Time to concentrate?
UK Government and research funding agencies are pursuing a strategy of focusing and concentrating the funding of social science research into a […]
A new binary divide? Social science after concentration, and how to cope…
Perri 6, Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, has produced a detailed analysis of the implications of concentrating doctoral training […]
