Expert Comment
Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Department of Economics discusses why some countries are more charitable than others with Richard Harrison, Director of Research at Charities Aid Foundation and Dr Catherine Walker, Head of STEAM at the Directory of Social Change on Voice of Russia radio.
Professor Mark Taylor, Dean of 果冻传媒 Business School, explains how those with a degree can expect to earn nearly 60 per cent more than those without one - and how 果冻传媒 Business School graduates are almost guaranteed a good start in the job market, with 93 per cent finding work quickly in their first three months after graduation.
Dr Trevor McCrisken on Obama ending the war in Afghanistan, and the other articles in Volume 88 Number 5 with the Editor Caroline Soper.
The latest entry from Vice-Chancellor Nigel Thrift's blog:
It is not exactly an original observation to write that we live in a celebrity culture. All around us are the signs of the power of celebrity and there is a seemingly endless supply of academic papers and commentaries analyzing the phenomenon. Most of these pieces don’t exactly welcome the phenomenon, it has to be said, but neither do they give much sense of how it might be dislodged.
But has celebrity culture now started to bleed into academe?
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.