Graduates face a world of complexity which demands flexibility, adaptability, self-reliance and innovation, but while the development of creativity is embedded in the English National Curriculum and in workplace training, the higher education sector has yet to fully recognise its importance.

This book highlights how pressures such as quality assurance, peer review systems, demands for greater efficiency and increased research output are effectively discouraging innovation and creativity in higher education. It makes a bold case for the integration of creativity in higher education,...

Student Experiences in the Digital University challenges mainstream conceptions and assumptions about students' engagement with digital resources in higher education. The book's thesis is that students' experiences in the digital university cannot be reduced either to transferable skills or typological categories, but must be understood as embodied, socially situated and taking place in complex networks involving human and non-human actors. A series of chapters incorporating empirical data from a JISC-funded project on digital literacies concludes with far-reaching implications for...

Student Experiences in the Digital University challenges mainstream conceptions and assumptions about students' engagement with digital resources in higher education. The book's thesis is that students' experiences in the digital university cannot be reduced either to transferable skills or typological categories, but must be understood as embodied, socially situated and taking place in complex networks involving human and non-human actors. A series of chapters incorporating empirical data from a JISC-funded project on digital literacies concludes with far-reaching implications for...

Bursting with the best-bits from British history, this book seeks to inspire a love of history that can last a lifetime. Including rules to remember the rulers of Britain, getting to grips with the gunpowder plot and clueing-up on the cruel fate of all six of Henry VIII's wives. Complete with light-hearted illustrations by Andrew Pinder, Off With Their Heads is the perfect treat for any young history lover.