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Fix our existing National Insurance system instead of adding a new levy, economists recommend
Fixing the biggest gaps in our existing National Insurance system would bring in more revenue than the government’s new levy and would be fairer on younger and lower-paid workers, according to a new report by researchers from the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics.
New report examines the impact of apprenticeship reforms on employer behaviour
A new report from the Warwick Institute for Employment Research provides an explanation for the decline in the number of apprenticeships starts following the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in 2017.
Warwick named in UK top 10 and World top 80 by Times Higher Education
The Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2022 has today, 2nd September, named the University of Warwick as one of the UK’s top 10 and the world’s top 80 universities.
Insufficient evidence that AI breast cancer screening is accurate enough to replace human scrutiny
Better evidence needed before considering the future integration of AI into breast cancer screening programmes, say experts
Century-old mystery of how planets reflect light solved
New research involving an honorary professor in the University of Warwick Department of Physics describes a new way of calculating phase curves, the ‘shape’ the sunlight that is reflected towards us from planets and moons that can give astronomers information about their surface and atmospheres.
Prof. David Firth confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Statistical Society
Professor David Firth has been confirmed as the next Royal Statistical Society (RSS) President after Professor Sylvia Richardson’s term of office comes to a close at the end of 2022.