In a recent Slate essay, Rebecca Schumann, a visiting assistant professor of German at Ohio State University, demonstrates tidily the alleged lure of academic life: ‘Who wouldn’t want a job where you only have to work five hours a week, you get summers off, your whole job is reading and talking about books, and you can never be fired?’

According to a recent article by Good magazine about 10 percent of American university students plagiarise from Wikipedia. Others, about 8 percent, copy from Yahoo Answers and Slideshare. These figures are based on a recent study released by Turnitin, a software program that academics use to check for plagiarism – you enter a piece of […]

You say you want a revolution Well you know We all want to change the world – Lennon and McCartney, 1968, ‘Revolution’ My research locates and engages with a ‘popular myth’ that occurs in contemporary mass-mediated culture: that popular music can and has inspired or led people to think and act to change the world […]