academic publishing

The first seven years – part 2

By PF Admin|2015-04-14T09:23:11+00:00April 14th, 2015|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: academic publishing, evidence based funding, funding criteria, grants, How Children Succeed, Next Big Thing, The Progress Foundation|

In our previous blog, we highlighted several findings from the research undertaken in recent years: Self confidence matters and our young people seem to be lacking the self-esteem which generates self confidence. We should expect more of all our young people and make them believe that they can achieve more at school and in life. Middle [...]

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Supporting enterprise – we make our first loan

By PF Admin|2015-03-05T20:46:28+00:00January 19th, 2013|Categories: Enterprise|Tags: academic publishing, enterprise, lending, Open Book Publishers, social investment, The Progress Foundation|

The death of Aaron Swartz on 11 January 2013 has raised public awareness of the issue of access to academic publishing. Swartz, the internet entrepreneur behind Reddit, followed the Gates/Zuckerberg path of dropping out of a prestige university to found an internet company which then made him millions. After selling Reddit, Swartz started campaigning for freedom [...]

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