SHOCKING: 7 - What They Never Told You

‘We feel for lecturers — but we want our fees back’: what students really think about the university strikes

Lecturers, librarians and administrative staff are among the 70,000 university workers set to strike for 17 days this term — so is Generation Covid right in asking for compensation? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2023

The Leader podcast: London gripped by decade’s biggest strikes

Plus, the devastating impact on Gen Covid’s education

Evening Standard · Feb 1, 2023

Columbia University names Nemat 'Minouche' Shafik as first woman president

NEW YORK — Columbia University has named Nemat “Minouche” Shafik its 20th president — and the first woman to run the school in its 268-year history, the university announced Wednesday.

Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2023

Swati Dhingra of the Bank of England: ‘Are we going to end up deepening the recession?’

In her first interview since joining the monetary policy committee, Britain’s newest interest-rate setter warns inflation is not the biggest threat to the economy – because ‘the slowdown is here’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2022

Brexit added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years, research finds

Cost of food imported from EU rose because of extra red tape, with poorest most affected

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2022

Finance employees see the future of work as hybrid, a study finds

A study by Women in Banking and Finance and the London School of Economics focuses on finance professionals in the U.K.

Fortune · Nov 29, 2022

China on march as Oxford marks 7th year running as top university

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 rate 1,799 institutions from 104 countries

Evening Standard · Oct 12, 2022

Bank of England delays interest rate decision due to royal mourning, as businesses and unions pay respects – as it happened

Interest rate decision delayed, and TUC Congress postponed, as businesses, unions and investors mourns death of Queen Elizabeth

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2022

Jude Howell obituary

Other lives: Academic expert on labour relations in China and professor of development studies at the LSE

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022

‘The kind of place planners have dreamed of’: the London Olympics site 10 years on

Anish Kapoor’s big red tower remains a spectacular eyesore, but 10 years on from the 2012 Games, the old railway lands of Stratford are a largely thriving new urban district that few other host cities can rival

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022