News for October 2014
Thomas Wilson, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student at the University of Warwick, has been awarded a Scholarship for Excellence.
Thomas Wilson, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student at the University of Warwick, has been awarded a Scholarship for Excellence.
University graduates who went to independent schools earn more than their peers from state schools, new Warwick research shows.
World-renowned Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University lectures on ‘The Structure and Function of Human Social Networks’.
Universal preschool for three-year-olds is expensive and only leads a small number of women into work, research shows.
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Thomas Wilson, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student at the University of Warwick, has been awarded a Scholarship for Excellence.
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University graduates who went to independent schools earn more than their peers from state schools, new Warwick research shows.
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World-renowned Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University lectures on ‘The Structure and Function of Human Social Networks’.
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Universal preschool for three-year-olds is expensive and only leads a small number of women into work, research shows.
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An article by Professor Andrew Oswald has been featured on the Times Higher Education website, examining the current state of the social sciences.
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Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Department of Economics has been looking at whether there is a formula for the ‘perfect ask’ in online fundra...
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Michael Waterson, Professor of Industrial Economics, writes for The Conversation.