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The Future of Undergraduate Teaching
Vice-Chancellor Nigel Thrift explores three possible future outcomes of online consortia delivering an online teaching presence.
Doing the Rounds
Vice-Chancellor Nigel Thrift considers the impact of the smaller things in life - from a ballpoint to a Blackberry - in comparison to the larger social forces in managing a university.
Russia’s national income in war and revolution, 1913 to 1928
A new collaborative piece from Mark Harrison, Warwick's Professor of Economics, and Andrei Markevich, Assistant Professor of Economic History at the New Economic School, Moscow. The two academics explore Russia’s economic catastrophe at the start of the 1920s in the hope of yielding lessons for the relationship between state capacity, government policies, and economic development.
Should we worry when small charities go bust? Not necessarily…
Professor of Economics Professor Kimberley Scharf looks at the decline of small charities and wonders if it is such bad news for the charitable sector as a whole.
What's in a name?
What should the title of the leader of a university be? In some ways, it’s a trivial question. But in some ways not. The deeper you go into the issue, the more complicated it becomes as different academic cultures reveal themselves.