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A Balancing Act - Artists' Labour Markets and the Tax and Benefit Systems
MP Visits Warwick Business School for High-Level Forum
Today, Warwick Business School’s Industrial Relations Research Unit will play host to a high-level round table discussion on the controversial draft, Information and Consultation of Employees Regulation at the request of the Department for Trade and Industry.
European Question Time
The Politics of Nothing
To ask the question today -what is the 'politics of nothing'? - is to refer to the phenomenon of destruction in the modern age. We are surrounded by competing banalities. On one side, we hear a repeated indictment of 'evil ones' who blow things up, be it Buddhist statues or world trade centres, apparently out of a simple demonical impulse. On the other side, we are plied with 'good reasons' why people should want to blow up symbols of western power: blame is placed on American foreign policy, the poverty of the Arab masses, or even once again on the Jews - this time, what they are doing in Israel. Banality is pitted against banality.
The Issue: Handing Over Power to the Young
There's a perception that universities are being run by a combination of internal administrators and the government and I think there's some evidence to justify that perception. If it's to be believed that academics should be involved in university management, then getting younger ones involved seems to be a good start.
The Issue: Does the Government understand what Universities are for?
I believe that the members of the present Cabinet, like the Conservatives before them, do not understand what universities are for. They want useful universities — ones that are practical, efficient, and focused on business needs.
The Debate on Globalisation
Seventh Heaven: Politics Success
The Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) scored full marks of 24 out of 24 in its subject review in the last week of the Autumn term. PAIS, which had the doubtful honour of being the final department at Warwick to be assessed under the current method of Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) subject review, became the seventh subject at the University to achieve a maximum score across all of the six aspects of provision.