A nightmarish vision of the worst that the future could hold for English universities was set out at the Association of University Administrators conference at the University of Nottingham this week.
Glasgow Caledonian University has had its licence to sponsor foreign students temporarily suspended by the UK Border Agency.
The concept of the 'killer-ape' offers a pessimistic reflection of humanity and its genesis, but the latest research shows that a primate species whose success is based on mutual aid and pleasure,...
A French conference debates how to cultivate leadership qualities in MBA students, without losing sight of what really matters in life. Matthew Reisz observes
Graham Farmelo is impressed by a fresh look at the UK's performance in a much-debated conflict
Beneath some Mad men poppycock, Geoffrey K. Pullum spies a smart survey of linguistics in action
In spite of the populism of the title, this is a difficult though forceful book. The Foucauldian "fugitive" of the subtitle gives the game away, for this is a reading of early modern theatre in the...
In the most heartfelt and important chapter of this book, Robin Fox laments the loss of Lewis Henry Morgan's vision, the "high mandate" to explore the universal history of humankind. For Fox, Morgan'...
Jon Turney on a book that grapples with planetary issues but fails to justify its own subtext
One of the pleasant fictions of the book business is the pretence that we pick books up, start reading at the beginning and work our way through to the end. But really we all do the same thing: first...
The surge in Arab revolutions since January has surprised many scholars and policymakers for one reason: it is not currently being orchestrated by the much-studied Islamists. Since the 1970s, Western...
Wonderful illustrations don't make up for a failure to get to grip with ideal worlds, Fred Inglis finds
In my student days, we spoke admiringly of the "strong readings" that Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida made of past thinkers: readings that to ordinary readers looked like wilful misreadings, if...
University of Cambridge historian Mary Laven, whose new book makes compelling reading, acknowledges that Matteo Ricci's story has been told before from a wide range of perspectives. So what more can...
Institutions are warned over price-setting as MPs are asked to investigate. Simon Baker reports