UCL in the media
Hydrogen held back by red tape
“The challenge of directly pairing green hydrogen with wind and solar is not around technology or economics, it’s red tape… it can take almost a decade to get the turbines spinning in the water,” said student Oliver Joy (UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources).
Half of students who failed GCSEs were behind when they started school
A new report by UCL’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the University of Exeter found that about 50 percent of students who failed their English and Maths GCSEs were behind their peers when they started school at age five.
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Housing market facing a downturn
Professor Nikodem Szumilo (UCL Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) said it was "very clear that the [housing] market is heading downwards" after growing for a decade.
Green energy could drive down energy bills
“Energy markets aren’t designed to cope efficiently with sources like renewables which cost a lot to build but far less than fossil fuels to run,” said Professor Michael Grubb (Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources).
President Joe Biden’s increasing popularity
"Biden's rising approval rating comes after a string of summer legislative victories, most notably the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act… as well as popular bipartisan bills addressing gun safety, veteran care, and innovation," said Dr Julie Norman (UCL Political Science).
Fascism taking root in GOP
“Interesting how pretty much every person who actually studies authoritarianism and fascism around the world and throughout history is deeply, deeply worried about Trump Republicans,” said Dr Brian Klaas (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society).
Americans worried about a second civil war
“Polarization right now is at the highest level in decades, if not going all the way back to the civil war,” said Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science).
Irrational beliefs rather than evidence drive actions
“We tend to think we configure our beliefs based on evidence, but I increasingly think that this is not the case,” said Professor Kate Jeffery (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences).
Online misogynist material on the rise
“Right now, we are seeing a much more generalised violent misogyny, such as more young people sharing sexist jokes. It’s no longer an extremist type of ideology. It’s the type of content which is easily becoming normalised,” said Dr Kaitlyn Regehr (UCL Information Studies).
Lowest Covid rates of the year
“This may be the calm before the storm; when we should be preparing for winter… I anticipate that cases will fall marginally over the few of weeks and be increasing again by October,” said Professor Karl Friston (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).
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