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Press release
23 Jul 2012
Corporate Venturing in the UK concludes that while the UK remains ahead of its European rivals, its position is fragile with countries such as France quickly gaining ground by doing more to encourage innovation and ‘deal flow’.
Journal
22 Jul 2012
Exploring some of the darker issues of life, Dr Kathryn Taylor argues that in order to understand cruelty, we need to do more to examine its nature, while Jake Arnott examines how our perceptions of crime are shaped by fiction.
Blog
20 Jul 2012
Jonathan Rowson
Oxytocin Man is Paul Zak, and the quick answer to the title question seems to be 'no'.
Another day, another divisive education headline. Whilst there is much to question within current education policy, there are also potentially new areas of opportunity opening up. The policy context of greater school autonomy, and emerging clarity about the future of the National Curriculum from 2014 (and the space to develop a ‘whole curriculum’ outside the National Curriculum), could be a key moment of opportunity for teachers and localities to reclaim the curriculum agenda.
18 Jul 2012
Matthew Taylor
It’s been another week when newspaper financial correspondents have been hogging the front pages - with more questions doubts over the role of the Bank of England in lowballing the Libor rate and admissions by HSBC executives that they had failed to prevent money being laundered by drug cartels and terrorists.
Purchasers of personal pensions are being misled about the level of hidden costs and charges, according to a report published by the RSA.
17 Jul 2012
Benedict Dellot
Is the Work Programme in a mess? Apparently so. This week the Government announced that the original estimate of the number of unemployed people who are expected to use the scheme is to be halved, indicating that some welfare-to-work staff may shortly end up out of a job themselves due to a lack of clients to support. In response, the shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne commented that the £3-5bn back-to-work scheme was now in an “almighty mess” with a government department unable to cope.
Fellowship news
Results will be published as soon as they are available on the RSA Governance webpages.
A while back, I wrote here about a workshop organised by London-based RSA Fellows looking at issues affecting young people. One of the projects discussed then was a collaboration between two RSA Fellows who have been working together to pool their very different skills.
The RSA Family of Academies will grow to four in September when Arrow Vale High School in Redditch, an upper school for children aged 13-18, becomes an RSA Academy.
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