Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West, by Callum G. Brown
Ursula King searches for communion between faithless and faithful in a study of unbelievers

Ursula King searches for communion between faithless and faithful in a study of unbelievers

Success stories, such as supermarket founder Ken Morrison, are covered in a study that makes you think, says Helga Drummond

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James Tooley reflects on who helped him, who let him down and what he learned from his time in prison in Hyderabad

Matthew Reisz in Bogotá examines how quickly a TACTIC nation can become a more effective player in global higher education

Book of the week: Danny Dorling lauds an exposition of the benefits of obligation-free income and how to attain them

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Tertiary education must be considered as a whole if governments are to prepare the workforce they need

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Two-year degrees will not lead to the dire scenarios that some have predicted (“Counting the hours shows fast-track flaws”, Letters, 2 March; “Fast-track degrees could create two-tier English sector...
The deadline for responses to the consultation on the next research excellence framework is 17 March, and it has created much debate. Although the Higher Education Funding Council for England...

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding