Are universities still relevant?

Are universities still relevant?

Author: LSE Film and Audio Team June 19, 2025 Duration: 55:35
Is a university education still worth the investment of rising tuition fees and time spent studying towards a degree rather than gaining valuable work experience?

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Author: Language: en-gb Episodes: 100

Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video
Podcast Episodes
Britain in a changing world [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:51
Discussing the topic, Britain in a changing world, former British Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, Sir John Major, delivers this year’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture.
America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy elite [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:29
America is undergoing rapid demographic change. By the mid-21st century, European Americans, long the country’s largest demographic group, will be roughly equal in numbers to Hispanic, African, and Asian Americans.
Saving Britain's wildlife [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:26:57
Britain's wildlife has been under pressure for centuries. Many of the large mammals that once inhabited these islands were driven to extinction long ago. In the twenty-first century, insect populations have collapsed by…
Fault lines: the new political economy of a warming world [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:51
In this lecture, Helen Milner addresses why vulnerability, lived experience, and material self-interest will drive the next phase of climate politics, and what that means for diplomacy, democracy and development.