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10th April 2010
“Too much Hitler and the Henrys” on the front page of the Financial Times Arts and Culture section. Extracted from Niall Ferguson’s essay in Liberating Learning:Widening Participation.
David Urch signs copies of his books An Englishman in Riyadh and Crescent and Delta in Waterstones Milton Keynes.
Today Programme March 22nd 2010
Hear Patrick Derham on the talking about Liberating Learning: Widening Participation
TheTelegraph March 21st 2010
Niall Ferguson calls for History to be made compulsory “The Glasgow born professor’s arguments, to be published next month, are contained in a collection of essays Liberating Learning: Widening Participation from leading teachers, historians, philosophers and businessmen”
Observer March 20th 2010
Niall Ferguson interviewed about Liberating Learning in Observer 'Rid our schools of junk history'
March 21st 2010 Observer Niall Ferguson “Rid our schools of Junk History”
Ferguson says history should have a "mandatory chronological framework" throughout secondary school and on to A-level. He also calls for more emphasis on western ascendancy, not in "an attempt to turn the clock back" but because understanding why the world became more Eurocentric after 1500 is the "modern historian's biggest challenge". He suggests a focus on why the scientific revolution did not take place outside Europe and how democracy emerged first in the west. "We have recently witnessed a successful campaign to improve the quality of food served for lunch in British schools. It is time for an equivalent campaign against junk history," concludes Ferguson, whose argument will be published next month in Liberating Learning: Widening Participation, a collection of essays in which teachers, historians, philosophers and businessmen argue education has been impoverished by a narrow curriculum. It has been edited by Patrick Derham, the head of Rugby school, and Michael Worton, vice-provost at University College London.” See Observer
February 27th 2010 Andrew Roberts reviews Liberating Learning in the FT Diary.
"It's good to see that, nearly 170 years on from the days of Thomas Arnold, greatest of Rugby School Headmasters and father of the modern public school system, the school is still at the forefront of new thinking on education. A new book, Liberating Learning will be published in April, edited by the school's current Headmaster, Patrick Derham, and Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London.
I predict that this book, appearing only weeks before the likely advent of my friend Michael Gove as the most radical education secretary since Shirley Williams, will set the education debate alight in a manner reminiscent of The Black Papers, a series of polemical pamphlets on progressive education first published in 1969 by a group of notable contributors including Kingsley Amis.
With contributions on "The Decline of History" by Niall Ferguson, "Liberal Education" by AC Grayling and "Education for Business" by Sir Stuart Rose and John May, this book could become the bible for reformers, those fed up with the past 13 years."
February 3rd 2010 The IEA and the University of Buckingham Press celebrate the publication of Classical Liberalism in the 21st Century
Martin Ricketts was master of ceremonies and the gathering heard anecdotes on the life of Norman Barry in honour or whom this volume of essays was collected. It also contains Barry’s last unpublished work.
January 15th 2010 New medical journal to be launched in September 2010 The Journal of Hypotheses in the Life Sciences will be edited by William Bains and will be published as an open access journal funded by page charges. The first call for papers will go out in May 2010 and publication online and in print will follow in September.
November 25th 2009 Dennis O’Keeffe speaks on Truancy at the IEA
Don’t Fence Me In: Essays on the Rational Truant assumes that most truancy is the logical outcome of rational decisions made by students in the face of the circumstances that characterise their school experience. It declines to attribute and consign all acts of truancy to the dustbin of deviance and anti-social behaviour. While it does not seek to absolve young people from responsibility for their actions, it seeks to show that structural weaknesses in the state-supported school system play a significant role in the causation of truancy both from class and school.
October 27th 2009 Crescent and Delta is part of the launch of the Buckingham Bangladesh Scholarship event at the House of Commons hosted by the Speaker, John Bercow
The Rt Hon John Bercow, MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, hosted an event on Tuesday, 27 October to celebrate the launch of the Buckingham Bangladesh Scholarship, an effort to raise funds to allow students from Bangladesh and from the British Bangladesh community to attend the University of Buckingham.
“This project celebrates an established University and its achievements by building cross-cultural learning, international relations and an institution where people from all over the world can come and learn at a University that is different,” said Bercow. “I am proud to have Britain’s only independent University in my constituency.”
The scholarship, the project of University alumnus Dean M Junayed Miah, is being supported by private gifts and donations as well as with proceeds of the sale of the book Crescent and Delta: The Bangladesh Story, written by David Urch and published by the University of Buckingham Press. www.ubpl.co.uk Proceeds from the sale of the book will be directed towards the scholarship fund at the University of Buckingham Foundation.
“This scholarship is a symbol of unity and of family”, said Miah. “If we sell 100,000 books, we can fund this important scholarship in perpetuity.”
Guests included the High Commissioner for Bangladesh as well as members of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons.
During the programme, Vice-Chancellor Terence Kealey presented the Mr Bercow with a certificate of appreciation.
Buy the book and support the scholarship For each purchase £10 goes to the fund.
UBPL attend the Frankfurt Book Fair as part of the IPG stand
Anthony Crawford lectures on The Butterfly Hunter at the University Darwin lecture series
August 2009 2009 issue of The Denning Law Journal now available online
Two UBP authors to speak at the Darwin lecture series in October/November. Anthony Crawforth on 6th October and Warwick Collins on 10th November
2009 24th July 2009 Shakin the Ketchup Bot’le paperback Sarah Broadhurst includes Shakin in her round up of titles for November in the Bookseller
July 2009 David Willetts, Shadow Minister for Education and David Coleman Professor of Demography at Oxford University speak at the launch event for Power of Numbers at the Policy Exchange on 7th July.
Charles Moore cites The Power of Numbers in the Daily Telegraph
June 2009 The Power of Numbers in the Sunday Times; Dominic Lawson says “If you want to know why the prognosis is so bleak seek out Richard Ehrmans’ Power of Numbers, to be published next month [July 7th] by The University of Buckingham Press and the Policy Exchange think tank. It is a devastatingly clear exposition of how unprepared we are in this country for the consequences of demographic decay.”
The press is to publish From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula by Dr Paul Davis
The press is to publish an educational book called “Liberating Learning” on the future of schools edited by the Headmaster of Rugby School
May 2009 The press is to publish 21st Century Classical Liberalism: Essays in honour of Norman Barry in late 2009
April 2009 Special issue of the Journal of Prediction Markets, corporate applications for Prediction Markets edited by guest editor Koleman Strumpf
UBP exhibits at the London Book Fair as part of the IPG stand.
March 2009 UBP publishes Don’t Fence me In and Wealth Without Cost
February 2009 UBP launches A Silent Gene Theory of Evolution on Darwin’s birthday
2008 December 3rd 2008 Compassionate Economics launched at Policy Exchange. The accompanying debate at which the author Jesse Norman spoke addressed the economic issues facing the country.
November 21st 2008 Jeff Randall quotes Tom Burkard author of Inside the Secret Garden at length in the Telegraph: “The problem according to Tom Burkard, visiting fellow at the University of Buckingham, is that the current schooling system is hopelessly corrupt: ‘Grade inflation has reduced the annual release of exam results to a farce….Pupils are taught to evaluate gobbets selected for the specific purpose of illustrating themes such as the oppression of blacks by whites, women and homosexuals by men. Without political will there is very little chance of breaking through the web of progressive educational mythology and stepping outside the long shadow of Thomas Gradrind.’”
November 2008 Launch party for Shakin the Ketchup Bottle held at the Medical Society in London
October 2008
September 2008 Crescent and Delta book launch at Bury Law School
August 2008 UBP signs Warwick Collins to publish A Silent Gene Theory of Evolution.
August 2008 UBP signs prestigious author Dr Barry Bracewell-Milnes to publish the two volumes of Wealth Without Cost.
July 2008 A glittering party and presentation to the supporters of the publication Crescent and Delta
June 2008 UBP appoints Marston Book Services to provide stockholding and distribution
UBP appoints Compass to manage sales to the book trade
May 2008 UBP to publish a new medical journal—The West London Medical Journal
Terms have been finalised and UBP will publish the quarterly journal on behalf of the West London Postgraduate School. Designed to be an outlet to publish articles swiftly the journal will be available free online and the paper version will be distributed free to all UK hospitals.
April 2008 UBP to publish the Buckingham Journal of Language and Literature UBP has agreed terms and will publish the paper version of this journal which has so far only appeared as an e-journal. The first paper issue is being prepared for publication later in 20008
February 2008 The Press to publish Crescent and Delta in support of the Buckingham Bangladesh Scholarship
Crescent and Delta is the first initiative to raise funds for The Buckingham Bangladeshi Scholarship. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go into the scholarship fund. Ultimately it is aimed to provide and annual scholarship to a member of the Bangladeshi community.
The Scholarship reflects the importance placed in education by the Bangladeshi community and the recognition by the University of Buckingham of the opportunity to develop individuals through learning. It is designed to attract hard working students who show integrity of character and aspire to the highest of standards. We see them as future leaders and being the best of British Bangladeshis. The scholarship will help to build bridges by investing in the future, in education, and encouraging connections that will enhance pride at being British and being Bangladeshi. To pre-order please go to the books page.
January 2008 Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, makes important contribution to the third issue
Testing the efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup by Steven Levitt with co author Richard Gil heads the list of interesting articles in the third issue. With six articles including contributions by Johnnie EV Johnson, (with Stefan Lessmann and Ming Chien Sung), Timm Sprenger, Rodney J Paul, Thomas S Gruca and Richard Borghesi the third issue is the most extensive yet and covers a wide range of relevant research.
October 2007 The Journal of Prediction Markets and the University of Buckingham Press sponsors the European Prediction Markets Conference
Participants at this important gathering received copies of the journal and a discount on the subscription price. The Editor, Leighton Vaughan Williams spoke at the conference and several of the editorial board, notably John Delaney and Emile Servan Schrieber were also on the platform.
September 2007 Publication of second issues of JPM and JGBE
The second issue of both titles were published in September and are available online and in print.
June 2007 The University of Buckingham Press sponsors the Gambling and Prediction Markets conference in Palm Desert California
The editor Leighton Vaughan Williams was presenting at this significant conference and the press provided free copies and discounted subscriptions on its journals.
June 2007 Can the Prizes Still Glitter launched at the Royal Society
The editors and many of the contributors were present at the gathering to celebrate the publication of Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a Changing World. The “glittering” array of academics, journalists and politicians heard speeches from David Willets MP, and editors Hugo de Burgh and Anna Fazackerley discuss the main issues facing higher education. February 2007 The Denning Law Journal re-launch party
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