Labour accuses coalition of ‘pulling up the drawbridge’ on the next generation
The coalition government has been criticised by Labour’s shadow business secretary for attacking its goal of widening participation in higher education.
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Inside Higher Ed: Israel, South Africa and academic boycotts
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Great versus Good: scholar vindicated in banishment battle
Botswana’s expulsion of academic flouted African Charter, says ruling. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Is the Pope a Catholic?
In the wake of Benedict XVI’s British visit, Robert Segal deconstructs the Pope’s protestations about the potency of religion
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The dogma delusion
The notion of a 'war' between science and religion is a media-friendly but profoundly inaccurate model for scholars' many-hued and nuanced views of God, faith and doubt. Matthew Reisz reports
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The six wives and nine lives of Henry VIII
Bard movies, ruff sex, soap-opera 'faction' and grumpy old historians: Clive Bloom on our enduring fascination with the Tudors
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Trouble with numbers
Mass higher education has brought social mobility to millions worldwide, but as access expands and academia is stretched to breaking point, standards are in steady decline, writes Philip Altbach
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Book of the Week: A Journey
Five wars, three terms, one unpalatable truth: Alex Danchev interrogates the great persuader's mock-demotic attempts to defend the indefensible
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Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners
Timothy Mowl appreciates an erudite tour of the nursery end, courtesy of a bawdy, un-PC wit
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A Chance for European Universities, Or: Avoiding the Looming University Crisis in Europe
Following hard on the heels of his influential work A Chance for the World Bank (2005), this book places Jo Ritzen at the forefront of the debate on public finance within a global context. Currently...
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The Canon: Agape and Eros by Anders Nygren
Agape and Eros was written in the 1930s, just as philosophers were beginning to realise that language doesn't fit transparently over reality, but alters the way reality is conceived. Swedish...
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Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions
Eric Herring weighs the human cost of the West's 13-year campaign to undermine Saddam Hussein
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Big History and the Future of Humanity
Narratives don't come much grander than the current scientific view of the history of the Universe - a 14 billion-year saga so far, with many billions more to come. Against that backdrop, the...
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Gender Inclusive Engineering Education
This book has an interesting title: the words "gender" and "inclusive", coupled with engineering and education, reflect a "no mean feat" challenge in attempting even to think, let alone write, about...
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Forest Wildlife Ecology and Habitat ManagementBy David R. Patton, emeritus professor of forest wildlife ecology, Northern Arizona University. CRC Press, £57.99. ISBN...