On Global Justice
A book like this makes me nervous. Here I am writing for Times Higher Education when I should be engaged in proper, serious scholarship. Look at this book: prodigious does not begin to do it justice...
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Cultures of Mediatization
Raymond Williams described “culture” as “one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language”. I wonder how he would have managed “mediatization”. I have a sense that he would have...
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Willy Maley on a writer of commitment’s memoir of a postcolonial nation’s descent into conflict
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An Ecology of Happiness
We face a great contemporary paradox. Many domestic economies are stagnating and in desperate need of growth. At the same time, the apparently free natural resources of the planet are being used up....
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Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain
Pain is complicated, not only because of the different types of it but also because of the multidimensional aspects of the physical, emotional and cognitive experience. However, in Understanding Pain...
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Odds and Quads
The "Beveridge Report" (officially the Social Insurance and Allied Services report), which laid the basis for the post-war welfare state, was published 70 years ago this week. This is said to be the...
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Appointments
University of WollongongEeva LeinonenEeva Leinonen, who took over as deputy vice-chancellor (education) at the University of Wollongong at the beginning of the month, said the institution's "human...
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The unhappiness principle
Learning outcomes are frequently dismissed as a nuisance to be dutifully completed and swiftly put aside, but Frank Furedi believes their prescriptive nature and underlying utilitarian ethos make...
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29 November 2012
Let them fly - Set learning free from the constraints of bureaucracy
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'You're hired'...no, wait...'You've got a scholarship'?
Ghana tunes in for British Council’s Apprentice-style reality TV show. David Matthews reports
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Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Sergio Sismondo on a critical exploration of a new, lucrative model for public well-being
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Research intelligence - Now she'll work by her own rules
Astrid Wissenburg helped set the policies she will be bound by in her new OU role. Paul Jump writes
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A city's spirits unextinguished
An exhibition foregrounds the people of Dresden and their many and contradictory stories rather than their historical tragedy, discovers Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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The Outer Limits - Waking the dead
In the first of a new series on academics who conduct research in extreme circumstances, Gillian Fowler recalls the six years she spent working as a forensic anthropologist exhuming mass graves in...
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Tim Rix, 1934-2012
One of the UK's leading academic publishers has died.Tim Rix was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on 4 January 1934 and educated at Radley College. After national service in the Royal Navy, he studied...