Expert Comment
Technology Is Changing What We Do - Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift
As many commentators have pointed out, the outputs from social-networking sites, Twitter, and blogs are a goldmine for social and behavioral scientists. They can be used in so many ways. No wonder that the Library of Congress is intending to open a research archive of public tweets.
Brazil Reaches Out - Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift
"This delegation was buoyed by the Brazilian government’s announcement of 75,000 studentships to study abroad over the next four years, each worth $30,000, of which the UK looks set to obtain a good number."
Time for a Change in Higher Education - Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift
"We need to go back to first principles and work out what we really want and expect from a university. We need to draw on all kinds of social and economic theory to inform our deliberations: after all, most of this theory came from universities."
The Implicit Constitution - Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift
"Like the British constitutional expert, Vernon Bogdanor, who argues that the British state needs a written constitution, I believe that it is time to write a proper constitution for universities rather than rely on an implicit constitution."
What makes a successful University? Defining Success in Higher Education
One of the keynote events of the Festival of Social Sciences was 'Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities'. Here Warwick University Registrar John Baldwin tackles the key question 'What makes a successful University? Defining Success in Higher Education'.