Studying the British Indian Army in Burma during WWII, Tarak Barkawi's SOLDIERS OF EMPIRE (Cambridge University Press - Academic) shows how ritual, drill & invented traditions that are internal to the army itself do more to explain how that army fought so effectively. Listen in! newbooksnetwork.com/tarak-barkawi-…

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Amazing colour footage of Mao

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Breaking: The Open University vice-chancellor Peter Horrocks announces resignation timeshighereducation.com/news/open-univ… via Ellie Bothwell

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Identify a few things to change at a time. Base it on evidence. Listen to experts on how to make the change work. This article hits several nails squarely on the head. theretiringacademic.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/clo…

Great context including on OU educating 55% of disadvantaged students. Less convinced about service provision for others. Priority should be to design ever better tuition, support, and materials, so even more students succeed, or succeed better. timeshighereducation.com/blog/open-univ…

Skull of Indian executed by cannon for mutiny should be repatriated because he was innocent, says academic' | via The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/0…

Did you hear our graduates on the radio yesterday, talking about how the OU changes lives? The Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook show on BBC Radio 2 also covered fees, funding and flexible learning. You can listen again here (36.20 mins in): socsi.in/6XYgH

The world of work is changing. We need more adult education, not less theguardian.com/higher-educati…

'She wore it well': Jacinda Ardern takes Māori cloak to Buckingham Palace theguardian.com/world/2018/apr…

Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/…

Slaver! Invader! The tour guide who tells the ugly truth about museum portraits theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

The Gweagal shield and the fight to change the British Museum's attitude to seized artefacts theguardian.com/australia-news…

In UK universities there is a daily erosion of integrity theguardian.com/education/2018…

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Our Hon.Research Associate Lotte Hughes and Mark Lamont have published a Special Issue: Cultural rights and constitutional change in Kenya, in African Studies: tandfonline.com/eprint/vF69YH7… As part of an Economic and Social Research Council funded project katibaculturalrights.com