Technology revolution stops at classroom doors, report says
Demos says universities have yet to realise potential of technological innovations as Government launches drive to make the UK global leader in online learning. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Read all about it: ‘element of fraud’ in journalism education
Many students of the subject have no chance of a career in the profession, says Kent academic. Melanie Newman reports
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Reshuffle will not help progress or strategy, Clarke says
Government and sector both are failing to make progress on needed reform, says former Education Secretary. Melanie Newman reports
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Sharper university entrants are on the way
UUK says 14-19 reforms will better equip students for university. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: Fires of Faith
Bloody Mary's moniker may be inappropriate, as Lucy Wooding discovers
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Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others
Catherine was a visionary unafraid to take on the men claiming divine authority, writes Anke Bernau
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The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan situates Dylan and his work in the history of American culture. Dylan appears in this new American studies series after Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and W....
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The Canon: The Theatre of the Absurd. By Martin Esslin
Perhaps it's only books one meets at a young and impressionable age that become major landmarks on one's intellectual landscape. When Martin Esslin's book came out I was a teenager, fascinated - but...
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Stock Market Efficiency, Insider Dealing and Market Abuse
A study of regulation finds that it mostly works, but the debate has moved on, says Ranald Michie
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Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, Locality and Memory
Two kinds of experiences have shaped Jewish histories: persecution and diaspora. The pre-eminent 20th-century American Jewish historian Salo Baron objected to the preoccupation with persecution,...
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Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture
Since the 1990s, Jerome de Groot's hugely suggestive study contends, the popular appetite for and means of "consuming" history have boomed. This enfranchisement and participation has unsettled "...
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Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit
Charles Townshend examines some significant questions concerning the UK and US media
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Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas
Historians are likely to mark the end of the era of market fundamentalism at the moment in 2008 when the breakdown of the poorly regulated American financial system wreaked havoc upon economies from...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers, Blackwell, Brighton
1 Contemporary Strategy Analysis, Sixth Edition by Robert M. GrantWiley-Blackwell, £31.99ISBN 97814051630952 Management Accounting for Business, Third Edition by Colin DruryThomson Learning, £42....
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Idiocy: A Cultural History
Writers love a fool, as Penny L. Richards learns from a roll call of idiots across the centuries