Times Higher Education: Bright ideas sparked in dark days

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Society must use the economic recession of the past five years as an opportunity to rethink how it is organised, a lecturer was due to argue in a public event on 16 April. Kirsteen Shields, a lecturer in the University of Dundee’s School of Law, planned to tell the Dundee Arts Café event that “in the brutality of the recession we have an opportunity to redesign our society for the better”. She has also advocated moving to a four-day work week to more evenly distribute employment during the downturn.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/campus-round-up-18-april-2013/2003176.article