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A quiet revolution is transforming business schools
There is a quiet revolution going on in business schools. Some call it the “transition to predictability” others call it “causal based research”. A few business schools are transitioning from...
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Spending review brings good news for science
In the government’s recent Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne had surprisingly good news for UK researchers and UK businesses. ‘In the modern world, one of the best ways you can back business...
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What if we turned the skills-gap debate around?
One of the frequent criticisms levelled at universities in both the US and UK is that they do not provide students with the skills they need in the workplace. Often borrowing from human capital theory,...
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The more universities in a country, the faster its economic growth
In 1900, only one in a hundred young people in the world were enrolled at universities, but over the course of the twentieth century this rose to one in five. It turns out that this enormous...
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Students’ university degree classification affect their pay later in life
Since the early 1960s, with developments in the field of human capital research, analysis of the returns to education has established robust evidence of a strong positive association between earnings...
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Investing in a university diploma in Britain is still worth the cost
In a recent article in The Political Quarterly Alan Ware claimed that for most students, higher education was not worth the cost. He claimed that there is no “need” for higher education, that higher...
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The educational and economic value of embracing people’s mother tongues
In Uganda, only 32 per cent of school children are literate in their mother tongue. They grow up in one of the country’s 65 ethnic tribes, each of which has its own language. But from their fourth...
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Analysing the distributional effects of higher education funding reforms in...
Over the last two decades, the financing of higher education in England has been transformed. The system has gone from one that offered free-of-charge, full-time undergraduate studies to being one of...
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Do apprenticeships increase earnings?
Is there an earnings differential for starting an apprenticeship over and above the pay of young people who have already had a full-time school or college-based education? Our research looks at people...
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Should schools bother with modern human resources management?
For decades, private sector firms have been aware of the benefits they can derive by investing in the management of their employees. Incentivising employees through individual and group performance...
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Investment in education can counter the economic impact of an older population
Population ageing is one of the most important economic and social challenges in the twenty-first century. With increasing life expectancy and falling fertility, the populations of most countries are...
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Why endorsements may advantage MBA applicants
The graduate school application process can be daunting and highly competitive, particularly in the case of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programmes. The process starts when candidates...
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A postgraduate degree protects you against the business cycle
College graduates receive a wage premium over non-college workers. However, both types of workers are subject to similar wage shocks over the business cycle. As the share of workers with postgraduate...
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The widespread increase in the skills gap across UK regions
Given that the Brexit negotiations are far from reaching a consensus, the potential implications of any deal for skilled migration continue to attract a great deal of attention. Recent research has...
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Analysing the distributional effects of higher education funding reforms in...
Over the last two decades, the financing of higher education in England has been transformed. The system has gone from one that offered free-of-charge, full-time undergraduate studies to being one of...
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Do apprenticeships increase earnings?
Is there an earnings differential for starting an apprenticeship over and above the pay of young people who have already had a full-time school or college-based education? Our research looks at people...
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Should schools bother with modern human resources management?
For decades, private sector firms have been aware of the benefits they can derive by investing in the management of their employees. Incentivising employees through individual and group performance...
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Investment in education can counter the economic impact of an older population
Population ageing is one of the most important economic and social challenges in the twenty-first century. With increasing life expectancy and falling fertility, the populations of most countries are...
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Why endorsements may advantage MBA applicants
The graduate school application process can be daunting and highly competitive, particularly in the case of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programmes. The process starts when candidates...
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A postgraduate degree protects you against the business cycle
College graduates receive a wage premium over non-college workers. However, both types of workers are subject to similar wage shocks over the business cycle. As the share of workers with postgraduate...
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