Fascinating insight from Dr Namita Datta, discussing rapid change in how young people think about jobs, what training is truly helpful, and how governments need to embed these evolving ideas into their systems.

Education technology can do many good things, but its natural tendency is to exacerbate inequality, not reduce it.

Our final speaker today is @EduRes_Mitchell, Co-director @CIRE_Bristol, and investigator with Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures - a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Network Plus focusing on education and sustainability in India, Rwanda, Somalia/Somaliland and South Africa.

Epistemic humility is a crucial enabler to legitimate educational 'solutions' - as is foregrounding the perspectives of teachers, students and other marginalised groups.

New in #JDevStudies: Darko [Uni of Birmingham] Occhiali [International Centre for Tax and Development] & @EnricoVanino use an IV approach across 24 SSA countries to find Chinese imports ⬆️ firm productivity, mainly through imports of intermediate inputs tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Researchers from Uni of Birmingham, Fiona Carmichael and Chris Darko, along with UEA have found that not all work is good work, and that these types of work have a negative impact on wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/20…

The role of Parliamentarians in addressing climate change threats within the #Commonwealth's most vulnerable nations is examined by sustainability expert, Dr Nana O Bonsu in the latest issue of The Parliamentarian ⬇️ issuu.com/theparliamenta…

We welcome proposals for our topic on #Education and #Employment Futures for young people. Contributions focused on possible solutions to key challenges facing #youth encouraged! Children and Childhood Network, UoB GCYFRG (RGS-IBG) Geography & Education Research Group (GeogEd) College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Four new FULL scholarships (+ stipend etc) for MSc students from sub-Saharan Africa to study at The Bartlett !! Please share the word!! Doing A PhD In Africa African Centre for Cities British Institute in Eastern Africa Africa Research & Impact Network Urban Action Lab UDADISI Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology University of Lagos ARISE ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/…

Which firms enter export markets? And which gain the most from it? Findings from World Bank Enterprise Survey data published in JIBS show that it depends on the firm’s home market economic development: rdcu.be/cEAPM Ferran Vendrell Chris Darko Bham Business School UVAMcIntire

Every day, they are delivering. Now it's your turn. Join us for #F4GC: bit.ly/3obp4Gk #breakthroughs #guaranteed

Register now for the inaugural #F4GC and take advantage of early bird discounted rates. EB registration closes 3 March, don’t miss out! Join us from 3 to 5 May 2022 at the ICC in Birmingham, UK: bit.ly/3phyXDB #Conference #Challenges #Solutions

Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Shireen Kanji, and Nicholas Vasilakos show that young women and girls' time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap. Now online: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Applications welcome! 🙂 Assistant Professor in Industrial Economics or Business Economics (Research & Education) - Birmingham Business School - Grade 8 - 100905 linkedin.com/jobs/view/3402…

Applications welcome! 🙂 Check out this job at University of Birmingham: Associate Professor in Industrial Economics or Business Economics (Research & Education) - Birmingham Business School - Grade 9 - 58374 linkedin.com/jobs/view/3402…

Applications welcome! Assistant Prof position in Business/Labour Economics Business Economics & Policy @ Birmingham Business Bham Business School with a great group of people. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Applications welcome! Associate Prof position in Business/Labour Economics Business Economics & Policy @ Birmingham Business Bham Business School working with a great group of people edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

"Economics is the least socioeconomically and racially diverse of any major PhD discipline" ... piie.com/research/piie-…

On almost every measure of educational success from pre-K to postgrad, boys and young men now lag well behind their female classmates. In one of our don’t-miss stories of the year, Richard V. Reeves argues that there’s a way to help boys do better: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…