Students say textbooks are too expensive - could an open access model be the answer?
Mar 02, 2016 01:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
For university students, textbooks have been both a saviour and a bane. Having most of the essential readings in a single volume enables students to access resources easily. Despite mostly being used for short periods of...
Why advertisers use pictures to sell pharmaceuticals – and shouldn't
Mar 02, 2016 01:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
On a winters night in 1993 I was crouched in the back of an ambulance as it hurtled through the hedgerows and lanes of West Dorset. But I was oblivious to Thomas Hardys snowy fields. I was a doctor and my charge was a...
How Macedonia found itself at the centre of Europe's refugee crisis
Mar 01, 2016 18:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Distressing scenes have been unfolding on Macedonias border with Greece, where police have been using tear gas on refugees attempting to break through a razor wire fence designed to keep them out. Given the recent tone...
Are management consultants losing their place as masters of the universe?
Mar 01, 2016 16:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Management consultants are powerful beasts. They can mould businesses and guide governments, both in high-profile projects and behind the scenes. They do this largely free from any specific regulation and, if revenue is...
Why scrapping the €500 note may not help counter terrorism
Mar 01, 2016 16:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The president of the European Central Bank has said that the bank is considering scrapping the 500 note as the big bill is being increasingly seen as as an instrument for illegal activities, according to ECB president,...
Time to rock the boat? Cruise ships can destroy the very destinations they sell to us
Mar 01, 2016 16:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Italy plans to cut back on the number of visitors allowed into Cinque Terre, a particularly picturesque section of its north-western coast. Around 2.5m tourists visited the area in 2015; this year, numbers will be limited...
Hard Evidence: which charities get the most money and is it enough?
Mar 01, 2016 16:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Charitable giving is big business, with many organisations handling millions in revenue. But big charities have come under fire for issues from bad accounting to actually doing more harm than good. In the second of our...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects