By Ourania Filippakou, Professor of Education, Brunel University of London
Student loans now sit at the centre of how higher education is funded in England, shaping how millions of graduates finance their studies. Many students leave university with debts of £50,000 or more and may spend decades repaying them.
The current system rests on the idea that higher education primarily benefits individuals, because going to university means that they will earn more over…
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By Georgina Brewis, Professor of Social History, UCL
Sam Blaxland, Lecturer in History, UCL
Student finance in England is up for debate once again, with extensive discussion on the perceived unfairness of the Plan 2 student loan repayment system
But concerns about how to pay for a university degree are far from new. Our new book Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital explores the financial challenges…
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By Arun Dawson, PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College London
After pressing allies for support – and being rebuffed – US president Donald Trump now insists that the United States can reopen the Strait of Hormuz alone. However, this would focus the risk on US forces and stretch limited naval resources.
Some 20% of global oil flows ordinarily passing through Hormuz; closure of the strait has caused oil prices to soar. British prime minister Keir Starmer has…
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By Anders Grønlund, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Languages and Literature, Film Studies, Lund University
Greenland has long been attractive to filmmakers. But now Greenlanders are shaping that process, even as visibility also becomes an economic strategy.
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By Beth DuFault, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Portland
Scores are ubiquitous today, from data in parenting apps to fitness monitors. For some users, those scores start to shape a sense of right and wrong.
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By Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
Michal Horný, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, UMass Amherst
The US health insurance system requires that people make strategic and often risky decisions about how much health insurance they can afford and how much coverage they might need.
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By Adam Stanaland, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Richmond
Andrea Vial, Assistant Professor of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi
Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.
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By Andrew Garin, Associate Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
Brian K. Kovak, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Yuan An, Ph.D. Student in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
If you’ve ever ordered food through DoorDash, Uber Eats or Instacart, you may have realized the person who delivers it isn’t a salaried employee. They’re gig workers – independent contractors who pick up delivery tasks through an app, get paid per delivery and have no guaranteed hours, benefits or minimum wage protections.
Policymakers in several cities have tried to change that.
Seattle is a good example. In January 2024, the…
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By Beth Kania-Gosche, Professor of Education, Missouri University of Science and Technology
I live in the small city of Rolla, Missouri, where half the child care centers have closed in the past six years. In the past year, my state has lost 1,771 child care slots due to closures.
This problem isn’t isolated to Rolla – child care providers are closing in other rural areas. Some of the challenges these centers face are widespread. U.S. child care workers…
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By Philip Landrigan, Professor of Biology, Boston College
Ella Whitman, Medical Student, University of Vermont
A new study linking Pittsburgh’s air pollution to thousands of deaths each year has been published just as the EPA moves to weaken pollution standards.
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