Expert Comment
The latest blog entry from the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
We are still in the midst of a change that is already so familiar that it does not feel momentous—even though, in all likelihood, it is. The availability of information at hand in an instant is now a mundane fact of life. Yet it has immense significance for academics. I can remember when obtaining information necessitated multiple visits to the library, interlibrary loans, photocopying on an epic scale, card indexes, and all of the paraphernalia of search and recall that has now been replaced by a few keystrokes...
Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Department of Economics discusses why some countries are more charitable than others with Richard Harrison, Director of Research at Charities Aid Foundation and Dr Catherine Walker, Head of STEAM at the Directory of Social Change on Voice of Russia radio.
Professor Mark Taylor, Dean of Warwick Business School, explains how those with a degree can expect to earn nearly 60 per cent more than those without one - and how Warwick Business School graduates are almost guaranteed a good start in the job market, with 93 per cent finding work quickly in their first three months after graduation.
Dr Trevor McCrisken on Obama ending the war in Afghanistan, and the other articles in Volume 88 Number 5 with the Editor Caroline Soper.
The latest entry from Vice-Chancellor Nigel Thrift's blog:
It is not exactly an original observation to write that we live in a celebrity culture. All around us are the signs of the power of celebrity and there is a seemingly endless supply of academic papers and commentaries analyzing the phenomenon. Most of these pieces don’t exactly welcome the phenomenon, it has to be said, but neither do they give much sense of how it might be dislodged.
But has celebrity culture now started to bleed into academe?