The Education Department at the University of Buckingham is working with a consortium of Buckinghamshire secondary schools in instigating a new model of school-based teacher training. The model is called ‘School Direct’ and involves trainees being trained within a placement … Read more
Wickramasinghe, N.C., J. Wallis, D.H. Wallis, R.E. Schild & C.H. Gibson, “Life-bearing primordial planets in the solar vicinity”, Astrophysics and Space Science (2012). DOI: 10.1007/s10509-012-1092-8 Springer have issued the following press release for this new article by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe … Read more
Professor Ronald Coase, an honorary Buckingham graduate and a generous benefactor to the University, has published a new book at the age of 101. How China Became Capitalist, co-written with Ning Wang, looks at China’s transformation to a market economy … Read more
Bermingham, V. & C. Brennan, Tort Law Directions (3rd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-963956-4. This is the third edition of Tort Law, first published in 2008 in OUP’s successful Directions series of law textbooks. Tort … Read more
Globalisation has made diplomacy today immeasurably more complex than in the days when aristocratic gentlemen from European powers settled great issues over a glass of port. The popular, London-based, one-year course is now available by Research. This allows students to … Read more
Hawlin, S., “Rethinking ‘My Last Duchess’”, Essays in Criticism 62.2 (April 2012), 139-59. doi: 10.1093/escrit/cgs006 Browning is best known for his vivid, dramatic ventriloquism, his ability to conjure the voices of historic characters different from himself, … but what would happen … Read more
Richards, J., A Guide to National Security: Threats, Responses and Strategies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). 200 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-9655506-9. A Guide to National Security offers an analysis of the threats and policy responses facing the UK, presented within the … Read more
Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press – the launch conference for the University’s Dickens Journals Online project – concluded triumphantly on Saturday, with a champagne reception and ‘Farewell’, sponsored by digital publisher Cengage Gale. Over a hundred delegates, from as … Read more
Schroeder, A., D. Pauleen & S. Huff. “KM governance: the mechanisms for guiding and controlling KM program”, Journal of Knowledge Management 16.1 (2012), 3-21 This study investigates governance arrangements of knowledge management (KM) programs by applying Lawrence and Lorsch’s (1967) … Read more
Bray, J. “Sink or swim? The future for the rule in re Hastings-Bass“, Trusts & Trustees 18 (2012), 96-115 For the past thirty-five years the rule in re Hastings-Bass has allowed trustees to ask the court to set aside their … Read more
