Expert Comment
UK employment has risen by more than half a million over the last year, and employment is now back to pre-recession levels. Why has employment performed so well, despite output 'bumping along the bottom' and remaining 3% below its pre-recession peak? Dr Jennifer Smith from the Department of Economics explains.
The latest blog post from Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Nigel Thrift:
In the year of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, it seems appropriate to continue writing about the differences between the U.S. and British higher-education systems. Most commentators agree that the reasons for that fascinatingly odd war and who won it remain controversial. Let’s hope that I can be clearer about some of our educational disagreements—and similarities...
The alliance aims to offer a transnational experience for students and staff, explains its director, Professor Andrew Coats.
Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics explains why the roots of a viable state for Afghanistan must be found in the history of Afghanistan, and nowhere else.
The latest blog entry from Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
Universities are chock-full of novelists and poets. Indeed, the cultural life of nations would be mightily impoverished without their presence. There have of course been many studies of novelists and poets who are also academics. Perhaps it is just that I have not noticed the phenomenon before, but it does seem as though they are expanding in number now as never before.