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According to the latest research report from Legal and General and Centre for Economics and Business research (CEBR) in 2016 the high cost of housing means that 25% of all mortgage transactions involve parents with an average of over £17,00 being given. This follows on from previous CEBR research which showed an increasing dependence on […]
Who’s downloading pirated papers?
Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB. It uses log data from the creator of the website and includes charts on most downloaded papers and publishers.
Press Freedom Day
3rd May is designated by the United Nations as World Press Freedom Day. To mark the occasion an international coalition headed by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers has launched the Protect our Journalists campaign Find out more about the history of Press Freedom day, which seeks to promote the freedom of the press, […]
Unfiltered News
Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, this site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata. According to the site ‘We determine which news is “less reported” in a location by comparing the number of times a topic is mentioned worldwide […]
Aleppo – New spatial maps of the Conflict
Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo from the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University, a project to build online maps of the conflict damage in the historic region of Aleppo. You can use the satellite images to explore the city before and during conflict to view the damage. Case studies from collaborators will be added to analyse and […]
Where is the riskiest place to live?
Download the latest world ranking from United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security. It considers risk from extreme natural events and ranks 117 nations. This year’s report has a special focus on food security. The background section of the website compares with other factors. For other related indexes and reports on natural […]
Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
…according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws. For more detailed FOI statistics for the UK see the annual report from the Cabinet Office which has breakdowns by individual department.
Paris Agreement 2016
The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It deals mainly with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. An agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries in Paris in December 2015. It was signed on 22 April […]
Inclusive Growth Commission
RSA Launch Inclusive Growth Commission. Read the prospectus of this new Commission which will be examining ‘practical ways to make local economies across the UK more economically inclusive and prosperous, devising new models of place-based growth.’ It will report in March 2017. Key themes include how to build inclusive labour markets (preventing gender and race barriers, […]
Who gives to Higher Education institutions?
Download the latest annual Ross- Cass survey of charitable giving to universities which is carried out by the by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in Europe. It finds giving has increased by 8% since 2013-14, the highest number of gifts being given by alumni. The report also includes statistics on expenditure […]
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