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
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Interview with David Lodge
As he turns 80, the writer discusses the ‘golden age’ of universities and the (imagined) sexual indiscretions of academics
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A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble, by Edzard Ernst
Helen Bynum admires a physician’s quest to distinguish alternative medicine from quackery
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Warwick’s costs pass £100K as it foots Thomas Docherty’s legal bill
Picking up professor’s tab for defending himself in tribunal adds £66,000 to university’s expenses arising out of suspension
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Is ‘academic citizenship’ under strain?
A wide range of essential under-the-radar tasks sustain academic culture, but who will perform them in an increasingly careerist academy?
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MPs launch early day motion on international students
A cross-party group of MPs has launched a fresh bid to get international students removed from the UK’s net migration target.
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Terrorism bill will make universities ‘agents of the state’, warns vice-chancellor
Anthony Forster explains why university leaders have strong concerns about the proposals