Expert Comment
Dr Lynn Gambin, National Apprenticeship Week
Apprenticeships are more beneficial to employers and employees than any other vocational training programme. Our research, conducted over the past 15 years, reveals employers who invest in Apprenticeships value them highly with respect to what they deliver to the workplace.
Using research to boost business growth for enterprise groups
Following the creation of a new Enterprise Research Centre, Professor Stephen Roper from the Warwick Business School explains in an article for The Guardian why linking great business research to strong entrepreneurial teams is a good recipe for growth.
The Kids are Alright - Professor Hilary Pilkington
As images of 'feral' youths rioting on the streets of the UK jostled for position on TV screens with excited A-level students celebrating their results, Professor Hilary Pilkington examines the way young people are viewed by society and how they engage with their communities
The Power of Blogs in Forming New Fields of International Study - Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift
"This chapter in intellectual history shows how a new variant of communication can have formative effects, and in fascinating ways. As a result of it and similar episodes in other fields, I am now quite sure that archiving the Internet is a worthwhile activity for intellectual historians of the future because, when the problem is reasonably well-specified, blogs can show communities worrying away at the issues in all but real time."
Anders Breivik, and the Threat to Europe - Professor Stuart Croft
The recent tragedy in Norway was on a scale that is hard to imagine. But what are the wider implications of the attacks? What is the significance in terms of European far right groups? What similarities are there to the work of Al Qaeda? Professor Stuart Croft, Politics and International Studies, explains more.