The Academic Week Ahead

Watch a quiz

Three students from Aston University are competing with three of their lecturers in a series of general knowledge, specialist question and quick-fire bell-and-buzzer rounds for a show on BBC Radio 4. The event is free and open for everyone to attend on a ‘first come’ basis.

Alumni event

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is hosting a food and drinks reception for its alumni in Japan. The event will take place at Baird’s Beer and the Tokyo Taprooms, which are part-owned by a Chicago alumnus John Chesen.

Consider a masters

The admissions team at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School is hosting a webinar on their MSc in Financial Economics. They will explain the application process and answer any questions.

Predict the future

The Economic Research Council is hosting its fourth annual forecasting event The Clash of the Titans. Economists Michael McMahon, Kate Barker and John Llewellyn will give their forecasts on how the UK economy will perform in 2015.

Attend a conference

Scholars, professionals, academics and graduate students are invited to the 2014 Tokyo International Conference on Social Sciences. The conference will be chaired by Yong-Won Seo, an associate professor of operations management and management science at Chung-Ang University Business School in Seoul, Korea.