A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick:

There is an issue, which may or may not be a problem for universities around the world, but that is certainly gaining a lot of attention in Britain and the United States—namely, attention itself...

Workers’ safety in Bangladesh could be improved if western retailers use NGOs to report on conditions, says outsourcing expert Professor Michael Mol.

Professor Will Davies, from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, writes for The Conversation about privatising the government's behavioural insights team.

Comment by Dr Michael McMahon, Department of Economics, in response to The Economist's recent Free exchange column on the European Central Bank's troubles in providing support to peripheral economies:

THE Free Exchange column makes a strong case in support of view that there is something wrong with provision of credit to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the euro area. I agree. However I would go further than suggesting that lending support targeted at the SME sector, as the UK’s funding for lending scheme (FLS) does, is something the ECB could consider; I believe such targeted lending is something that the ECB must adopt, and sooner rather than later...

Dr Ben Clift, department of Politics and International Studies, reacts to news that the French economy has gone back into recession.

The current French Government, and the last one, understate the degree to which reductions in public expenditure contained in fiscal consolidation plans will eat away at demand and growth in the economy.