David Willetts: UK PM’s overseas student rhetoric ‘dangerous’
Conservative peer attacks ‘brightest and best’ language used by ministers
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Scientist leaves Oxford for US only to lose job offer in Trump cuts
Researcher talks of anger over job loss caused by federal hiring freeze
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How can we solve the crisis in university teacher training?
John Cater believes his Higher Education Policy Institute report offers some answers
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Global visa crackdowns may herald era of ‘contested’ mobility
Warnings that US and Australian policies threaten academic and student movement
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Battle scarred: an ethnographer at Camp Bastion
Witnessing the work of military surgical teams in Afghanistan caused conflicting emotions in an academic author and a sense of the futility of war and of his own profession
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Interview with Shirley Tate
We discuss realising what it means to be black in the UK, dealing with insomnia, and institutional racism in the academy, with the renowned race and black identity scholar
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Sheila Gosden, 1928-2017
Academic who epitomised the term ‘university citizen’ remembered
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Should I go to that conference in Hungary?
Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, by Daniel C. Dennett
Shane O’Mara on a profound and humorous exploration of human consciousness
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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece, by Jennifer T. Roberts
Barbara Graziosi on a lively account of the opposition between an authoritarian state and a mercantile democracy
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Does the academy risk being Left behind?
In an age of political civil war, the question of why the Right is so under-represented in academia is important
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The only conservative scholar on campus?
A right-wing philosopher in Texas tells John Gill how a minority of students can shut down debates and intimidate lecturers – and why he backs Trump