Blog posts

When the Grand Central shopping centre in Birmingham opened alongside a redeveloped New Street Station in September 2015, a fair amount of the fanfare was directed towards John Lewis, the ‘anchor tenant’ in the development.

September 2019 update: The Office for Students has introduced an experimental but more sophisticated successor to POLAR called TUNDRA.

We are some way from realising the transformative effects of smart cities,1 and further still from these effects benefiting the poorest in society.

New research published today from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics:

I’m struck by how often people predict the death of universities.

I argue that third mission activity is becoming core activity, and discuss issues of localism and internationalisation, in an article published today on the Universities UK blog:

I’m currently reading two excellent books that cover, in part, the future of China.

Bruce Katz, centennial scholar at the Brookings Institution and former Professor in Social Policy at LSE, recently wrote a blog arguing that “In 2016, Nations May Govern But Cities Rule”.

Two large multi-partner research projects on international education are opening later this year.

It’s great to see the International Conference On Sustainable Development is returning for the third year running this September.