Donald Trump inauguration: how academics are spending the day
Abraham Lincoln, a history of the Roman Empire and an EU flag feature in scholars’ Trump Day plans
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Dwindling US international student numbers? Don’t blame Trump!
The US has long been losing its popularity with overseas students, says Marguerite Dennis
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UK universities using fewer ‘atypical’ staff contracts
Overall higher education staff headcount up 2 per cent, new data reveal
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Campus sex assaults ‘linked to venue not binge drinking’
Study also found that almost 1 in 5 college men admitted to sexual aggression
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Interview with Angela Medvedeva
The psychologist who signed up for a PhD aged 17 talks about proving her teachers wrong, keeping an open mind, and the biggest misconception about psychology
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Joyce Appleby, 1929-2016
A leading authority on early American history has died
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Anthony King: trenchant political commentator dies aged 82
Fellow political scientists pay tribute to the scholarly achievements of a man best-known as a television pundit during British elections
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Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success, by Janice M. McCabe
Friends can help undergraduates blossom, but there’s not enough mixing of students from different backgrounds, says Lorenza Antonucci
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Trump presidency starts battle over trillion-dollar student loans
Leading Democrat puts education secretary nominee under pressure on loans and ‘non-existent’ higher education record
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Books interview: Sari Nusseibeh
The author and philosopher on his journey from Western thought to early Arabic scholarship as well as novels that detail daily life in today’s Muslim world
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life, by Joseph Leo Koerner
Tracey Warr on a pair of masters who, with ethereality and earthiness, respectively, puts the captivatingly quotidian on canvas
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At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, by Celia Marshik
Kate Macdonald on a study of how garments changed their wearers in early 20th-century Britain
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Cash-for-publications is ‘common practice’
Lucrative offer to professor renews concerns over 'unethical' contracts
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What are you reading? – 19 January 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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MIT president: Trump ‘will not change our mission’
But L. Rafael Reif admits the university may have to look for alternative funding sources and new ways to ‘stay connected’ to world