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A time for women

February 11 marked the 9th International Day for Women and Girls in Science, and as such it presents us with an important occasion to reflect on how exclusion and gender disparities in scientific fields represent significant risks for all.

Pathways to education

Current educational pathways are not leading to sufficiently educated students with proper understanding of science, mathematics, geography and other subjects.

The Moral Economist~II

The principles set down by Smith may be easily recognised today, but were truly revolutionary in his time. Smith argued that man’s basic and most important motivating force in all economic affairs is the drive of self-interest. Secondly, there is in nature an order of things that compounds and translates these individual self-interest strivings into a unified mass, resulting in the common social good. Finally, from the interaction of these two principles he draws his conclusion that the best economic system can result only where it is left strictly alone