Yale students flock to the pursuit of happiness
Class on ‘science of positive psychology’ becomes university’s most popular course
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High-achieving PhD candidates ‘experience greatest stress’
Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress are more acute for PhD candidates classified as exceeding their schedule
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Canadian university to fully cover international PhD fees
Brock University is the latest Ontario institution to announce new financial support for overseas doctoral students
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Stop labelling courses ‘vocational’ or ‘academic’ – they can be both
Sarah Stevens looks at how universities are endeavouring to deliver the skills and learning the UK needs
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Interview with Nayef Al-Rodhan
The Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist and founder of the Al-Rodhan prize seeks inspiration from Immanuel Kant and classical architecture
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Joseph Polchinski, 1954-2018
UCSB string theorist who won $3 million prize remembered
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Universities keep remuneration committee minutes under wraps
University and College Union calls for ‘proper transparency of senior pay and perks’
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University leaders push for Europe-wide excellence initiative
Additional support for institutions could be co-funded by national governments and the European Union, say rectors
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Global funding council: researchers keen, governments less so
Spike in interest in collaborative funding arrangements in wake of UK’s vote for Brexit
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Students split over support for USS pensions strike, poll reveals
Majority say they will support their lecturer if they walk out, but two-thirds concerned about impact on education
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The week in higher education – 15 February 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Jesus in Asia, by R. S. Sugirtharajah
Texts from China to India and elsewhere portray Christ in a different light, says Robert A. Segal
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America, by Steven J. Ross
When Goebbels and Hitler targeted Los Angeles, US officials did nothing. It was left to a Jewish lawyer to spearhead the resistance, says Nathan Abrams
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Bergson: Thinking beyond the Human Condition, by Keith Ansell-Pearson
John Shand welcomes a timely survey of the work of a newly fashionable philosopher
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Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church, by James Chappel
This charts with scholarship and originality the final renunciation of a synergy between church and state and a shift to the sovereignty of conscience, John Cornwell writes