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A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick: There is an issue, which may or may not be a problem for universities around the world, but that is certainly gaining a lot of attention in Britain and the United States—namely, attention itself...

A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick:

University campuses are increasingly becoming beacons for public values, contrary to the many critics who seem to believe that the Dark Ages are upon us in higher education.

There are many different campuses that are leading society to a better place by setting an example themselves. In the past, they were on the forefront of battles over gender and racial equality. But the story doesn’t end there. I see progress recently in four other important areas: gun control, sustainability, community outreach, and global health...

As people all over the UK today discuss Big Data, following the BBC's Horizon TV show last night, The Age of Big Data, Assistant Professor Tobias Preis commented, "The age of Big Data has arrived, and is constantly transforming the world we inhabit. BBC Horizon showcased some of the areas in which revealing patterns from vast amounts of data, in particular for the prediction of future behaviour, is of vital social and economic importance."

A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick:

A recent trip to India I took underlined the challenge that higher education faces worldwide. It must change what it does and how it does it to meet the growing demand. In India, for example, one estimate is that 500 million people will need training in vocational skills by 2022 and 40 million will need a university education by 2020. The consequences of these kinds of numbers for colleges and universities—not only in India but elsewhere, too—are still only being thought through. I can think of five consequences...

The latest blog from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick:

I read recently a remarkable article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande called “Big Med.” It tried to outline where medicine might be going next...