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The White Paper: A personal perspective
By Kathryn Jones, Director of Marketing and Communications, Birmingham City University Having spent the afternoon trawling through the Government White Paper, I am now perplexed. I’m struggling to...
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Planning Professor comments on the recent debate on the Planning reforms
Professor Alister Scott at the School of Property, Construction and Planning at Birmingham City University said: I must write to convey my increasing concern at the polarised debate between respective...
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University education, from a public good to a private investment?
Joyce Canaan, Professor of Sociology, comments on the significance of today’s student demonstrations against tuition fees: It is now a year (10 November) since the first national student demonstration...
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Three key challenges for improved planning
By Professor Alister Scott at the School of Property, Construction and Planning at Birmingham City University The Select Committee report on the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) released...
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Will the CBI report be an end to the current patchwork-reform system?
By Professor Fiona Church, Executive Dean, Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences The CBI ‘First Steps Report’ calls for a more holistic approach to reform in education – wholesale review rather...
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Should prisoners have the right to vote?
Dr Sarah Pemberton, Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences Currently, we have a prison population of just under 90,000 people, and depending on the nature of the...
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Potential thoughts on the Autumn Statement by George Osborne
By Dr Steve McCabe, Director of Research Degrees at Birmingham City Business School The ‘leaked’ headline that there will be an additional £5 billion investment over the next three years spent on...
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Clearing the way for Clearing
Kathryn Jones Kathryn Jones, Director of Marketing & Communications at Birmingham City University With A level results day fast approaching, universities across the UK are gearing up for the...
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Introduction of tribunal fees
Fiona Church By Professor Fiona Church, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences New rules introduced today bring in charges of up to £250 to lodge a claim at the employment...
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Are nurses being asked to act as ‘mental health police’ in new government...
Kim Moore Kim Moore, Lecturer in Mental Health, Birmingham City University’s Faculty of Health The government announced this week that five more police forces are to pilot a scheme whereby mental...
View ArticlePostgraduate loans: a student’s reaction
Emily Bettison is studying the MA in Creative Industries and Cultural Policy at Birmingham City University Initially when the news flashed up on my phone that the government were creating loans for...
View ArticlePostgraduate loans – the winners and losers
On 3 December 2014, in his Autumn Statement Chancellor George Osborne unveiled plans to introduce government-backed postgraduate loans from 2016/17. The proposals expect to bring an additional 10,000...
View ArticleObama needs to recognise the Internet’s success isn’t just down to America
Professor Mike Jackson, Birmingham City Business School There is much to be praised in President Obama’s plan for a free and open Internet and much which might inform the polices of European...
View ArticleThe Government wants to treat everyone as a suspect and make us pay for the...
Professor Mike Jackson, Birmingham City Business School The Queens Speech announced new monitoring powers this week “to tackle terrorism”. This bill entitled the “Investigatory Powers Bill” has its...
View ArticleCouncils should think carefully before rejecting all-day Sunday trading
Chris Edger, Professor of Multi-Unit Leadership at Birmingham City University’s Business School Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Summer Budget this week that councils will be given the power...
View ArticleNow you see it, now you don’t – The case of the incredible Mr Osborne
George Osborne is in many ways, lucky. Whilst he is the chancellor who inherited the deficit from the Labour government in 2010 he is lucky that though he regularly broke promises made concerning...
View ArticleIs the Paris climate change agreement a solution or cop out?
By Alister Scott, Professor of Environment and Spatial Planning, Birmingham City University After two weeks of tense negotiations, on Saturday evening we finally heard the outcome from the Paris talks...
View ArticleEngland’s ‘Devolution Revolution’ and the role of universities
Professor Julian Beer, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Birmingham City University George Osborne heralded a ‘devolution revolution’ at the Spending Review and Autumn Statement on Wednesday 25 November, intended...
View ArticleThe harsh reality of getting back to normal
By Dr Steve McCabe Some seven years on from the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis) it seems that memories are fading as to what caused a crash that, as well as being compared to the infamous 1929 Wall...
View ArticleCameron’s prison pronouncements lack real commitment
Dr James Treadwell, senior lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University Having spent a considerable part of the last year in prison undertaking an ethnographic study of violence and...
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