In recent years, it has been common for university presses to move away from an almost exclusive focus on scholarly books in favour of general-interest titles.But now the new director of the...
Universities told to vaunt uniqueness instead of relying on identikit cliches. David Matthews writes
Widening participation needs reconceptualising for a new age, say John Butcher, Rohini Corfield and John Rose-Adams
After the turbulence of the past year, business secretary Vince Cable sets out the government's vision for the future of higher education
The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben
Steve Wheeler is convinced that we need new approaches for digitally remastered learners
Les Gofton takes the measure of 'status inflation' and the bathetic growth of universal heroism
And God said, let there be culture. And there was culture. Then came technology, art, writing and, eventually, books. Some books featured more convincingly detailed stories about how it all started....
Explanations for the durability - or not - of undemocratic regimes could scarcely be more timely, given the upheavals that cashiered strongmen in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but not (so far) in Syria...
A 19th-century farmers' movement has left its mark on US universities, finds Francisco Ramirez
More than two centuries after the revolution of 1789, the identification of the French nation with its republican institutions and values represents one of the most powerful myths in modern history;...
Tony Allan is acknowledged as a world authority in the political economy of water policy and its reform. A pioneer in the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication of water...
Sarah Toulalan praises an exploration of how pre-19th-century societies acted on their urges
Isn't it time we started taking culture seriously in the design of technological innovations? Here, cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo throws down the gauntlet in a manifesto for true...
Writing Irish history, for any readership and at any level, presents a challenge of complexity and bias of a very special kind. All historical sources present the difficulties of partiality, limited...