Cambridge academics find history in their own home
Apartment block may have had large role in the early Cambridge University Press
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Space race makes University of the West of England’s campus fit to face the future
An estate master plan will help the institution equip students for the 21st century, v-c Steve West says
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TED winner shows what children can learn with their heads in the cloud
Newcastle scholar Sugata Mitra’s $1 million prize helps fund self-organised learning environments worldwide
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Disaster City: where a catastrophe is a good day’s work
Emergency services from around the world come to train at the small village with a unique connection to Texas A&M
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Today’s undergraduates: born into a second life
A rift will always separate digital natives from others, Shahidha Bari believes
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Inherent Vice, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
The work of Thomas Pynchon makes its Hollywood debut in a nostalgia noir tale faithfully adapted by a kindred spirit
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Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and Liberal Education in the Digital Age, by Thomas Leitch
Research tools have been revolutionised by the internet but, asks John Gilbey, are they reliable?
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Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk
Angelia Wilson on a prison system that has eroded democratic institutions and exacerbated social injustices
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Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain, by Lisa Mckenzie
Vicky Duckworth on an authoritative and personal study of the people living on the St Ann’s estate in Nottingham
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Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain, by Robert Hewison
Andrew Blake on a study of politics and the arts in the New Labour era
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Sex in China, by Elaine Jeffreys with Haiqing Yu
Jonathan Mirsky on a revealing study about the roots of changes in sexual habits
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Twitter’s not literature, but it can be a novel teaching tool
Social media can help the literary world come alive for students, says academic Rosie Miles. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance, by Marek Korczynski
Les Gofton admires an ethnographic study exploring how workers escape the daily grind
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Would a university hide a scholar who had committed a crime?
An academic’s conviction as a paedophile was kept under wraps in the 1990s. Would a cover-up happen today, asks Geoffrey Alderman
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Freedom of speech trumps safety on campus
Why are today’s students so preoccupied with protecting themselves from potentially ‘harmful’ ideas, asks Tom Slater