UK slips in gender equality rankings
Released this week by the World Economic Forum. The latest gender gap report which rates nations according to disparity between the sexes in health, education and work. In 2013 the UK was ranked 18, it is now ranked 26.
Stonewall Good University Guide
Stonewall have recently created a good universities guide. This rates what specific UK colleges are doing to support LGBT students. Leicester is on the list http://www.gaybydegree.org.uk/university/leicester/
UK Child Poverty
Where is child poverty the highest? Find out using the latest child poverty map of the UK from End Child Poverty Campaign Get more more facts from the Child Poverty Action Group
Bitcoin
What is bitcoin? Find out using this handy Harvard Business school working paper . Bitcoin.org -unofficial website managed by Bitcoin core developers Coinmetrics allows you to view detailed statistics Quandl also has free data Repec has economic papers
Global billionaires and political power
Global billionaires political power list New From the Brookings Institution and based on a forthcoming book by Darrell West, this is a ranking of political power exercised by the top 15 billionaires. The site also links to associated podcasts and papers explaining the methodology and the relationship between wealth and political power.
Feminism
The Fawcett Society launch new blog: Feminist Matters It will cover a range of topics from a feminist perspective. First topics covered are the labour party conference and its relevance to women. He for she campaign launched by the United Nations to campaign for gender equality launched by actor Emma Watson UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador. […]
Students and immigration
Foreign students and Immigration: Should they be counted in net figures? The debate continues. Other good places for research: UK official immigration data Parliamentary discussion: the Home affairs select committee has some recent reports. Universities UK has research on public attitudes towards foreign students. IPPR conducted research in 2012 HEFCE has data on demand for […]
What will work be like in 2022?
What will work be like in 2022? Research from Price Waterhouse Cooper. It comprises a survey of over 10,000 people from India, Germany, the UK and the US who consider what work will be like and how technology will change. Three main scenarios are offered. See more on management needs on the PWC site.
Social Entrepreneurship
A new standard to measure social impact is now available from the EU. Other good resources include: The Global Social Entrepreneurs Network UK Government website publications/data on social investment policy Looking for definitions, case studies and research? Try CASE (Duke University); Skoll Centre (Oxford University) and Stanford University Social Innovation Review. Further your studies with a free […]
EU data
EU Open Data Portal The EU Open Data Portal Expansion site provides free access to datasets from more EU institutions. These include Eurofund survey on European working conditions in Europe. Don’t forget other EU data can be found on Eurostat.
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