Great versus Good: scholar vindicated in banishment battle
Botswana’s expulsion of academic flouted African Charter, says ruling. Rebecca Attwood reports
Botswana’s expulsion of academic flouted African Charter, says ruling. Rebecca Attwood reports
In the wake of Benedict XVI’s British visit, Robert Segal deconstructs the Pope’s protestations about the potency of religion

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
Bard movies, ruff sex, soap-opera 'faction' and grumpy old historians: Clive Bloom on our enduring fascination with the Tudors
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

Five wars, three terms, one unpalatable truth: Alex Danchev interrogates the great persuader's mock-demotic attempts to defend the indefensible

Timothy Mowl appreciates an erudite tour of the nursery end, courtesy of a bawdy, un-PC wit

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...
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...

Eric Herring weighs the human cost of the West's 13-year campaign to undermine Saddam Hussein

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...

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...
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...
The latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings based on new methodology have attracted much attention since being published last week.Regrettably, some of the headlines and...
The article comparing aggregate points in the THE World University Rankings raised some interesting points. However, this is only a starting point. What we really need is to recalculate the figures...