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Social media provide shortcuts to things we yearn for, like connection and validation. Media effects scholars explain the psychological benefits we get from Facebook that make it so hard to quit.
Social class plays a huge role in people's experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education.
This problem masks a greater threat to the welfare state than it first appears.
Spending lots of time on the internet might be good for getting what you want in the short term but it might not work in the long term.
For many students, stress about money is a terrible and unwelcome distraction from their degrees – qualifications they hope can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Innovators and entrepreneurs will ensure that Africa continues to grow. But they need to be nurtured to lead the development.
From a single collaborative workspace in San Francisco in 2005, coworking has ballooned into a popular movement, with an estimated 3,000 spaces around the world. Tim Butcher and Julian Waters-Lynch explain…
From humble beginnings, the coworking movement has exploded to an estimated 3000 spaces around the world, with hundreds of thousands of people choosing to ditch the home or corporate office in favour of…
Paul Druckman, the CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), recently led the coalition’s global charge on corporate reporting changes to Australia, where he bolstered support and talked…
Conservatives are happier than liberals because of greater access to “social capital”. Researchers from Australia conducted…
Whatever response we might have had to the MLC story – and there have been many – it has been an insight into one of Australia’s “old school tie” networks. The drama around the sacking of the elite Melbourne…
Koreans are Sydney’s most entrepreneurial ethnic group, with the city’s culture and economy standing to benefit if it brands…
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Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, The Open University
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