Dr Fowler believes that contemporary student protests, such as the one in London last year, are a pale imitation of their 1960s counterparts

The Creative Campus

13 October 2011

Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive sociologist assigned his students the...

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David Ford

Literature and Religion in Cheltenham

12 October 2011

Professor David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity and Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, reflects on the first project in an exciting new venture, the...

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Search and rescue

Tweeting disasters

12 October 2011

Social networks like Twitter cannot help prevent disasters, but can quickly correct misinformation resulting from false rumours preventing possible further loss of lives, a leading...

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Morag Styles.

The Case for Children’s Poetry

11 October 2011

Morag Styles may be the only Professor of Children’s Poetry out there. Having recently taken up her new role, here she explains why poetry for...

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Writing, Sunset, Italy.

The Idea of the University

10 October 2011

The idea of the university and the roles assigned to universities in the 21st Century will be the subject of a lecture series beginning in...

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