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The Oakland Promise, like a number of local schemes in the US, aims to be a ‘cradle to career’ programme moving more of the city’s children into higher education. John Morgan visits California to assess it

Do you feel you’re just winging it, waiting for the day when your incompetence is exposed? Six academics show that you’re far from alone

Scholars keep feelings of inferiority well cloaked yet self-doubt can strike any of us and only disclosure alleviates the pain of this hidden epidemic

Book of the week: memoirs of the Weimar generation are formed into a powerful social history, writes Hester Vaizey

Neve Gordon lauds a forensic examination of the Palestinian territory and its 2 million inhabitants

This study of God and country could ask more questions of its subjects, says Angelia Wilson

Calls for additional funding to help colleges police controversial events

Female economists less likely to collaborate widely, study finds

National strategies also debate merits of basic versus applied research in rapidly expanding field

The push to admit more students from ethnic backgrounds should not be seen as a chore but as a valuable opportunity to update curricula, says Sulaiman Ilyas-Jarrett

How strong a voice should academics and students have in university governance? Tom Cutterham contrasts autocratic and democratic patterns in UK and European institutions

As exam marking season gets under way, seven academics offer their advice on assessing your students

A university career can be lonely, anxious and narrow. But those who learn from their regrets can avoid unnecessary stress, says Michael Marinetto

Our data visualisations show how institutions were established in three distinct waves, and the global distribution of ‘Golden Age’ universities

We unveil the top 250 universities under 50 years old and explain our generational and nuanced approach to young institutions

This year’s ranking showcases a much greater range of Golden Age universities and has been expanded to include 200 universities

Because the passing of a year is an arbitrary measure of maturity, we have added more gradation into our rankings, says Phil Baty

Bold by nature, young institutions are tailor-made for ambitious projects such as the EU’s plan to create disruptive ‘super-networks’, says Anthony Forster

The best of those universities founded since the year 2000

Book of the week: the lonely and anxious men devising and sharing pick-up techniques misidentify women as the root of their problems, writes Katherine Angel

As universities mull their partnerships with outsiders, all eyes study their power within national economic hierarchies

As a Brit leading HKU, Peter Mathieson had no baggage. The University of Edinburgh’s new v-c tells Ellie Bothwell about academic freedom, internationalisation and being treated to taxi drivers’ views on students

Focusing on values and priorities while learning from failures is the key to maintaining scholarly well-being, say Alexander Clark and Bailey Sousa

With more data from more institutions, our 2018 Young University Rankings explore the growing higher education sector. Here we explain the methodology that underpins the tables

Calling on women and non-white people to speak first in class has a noble aim, but there are better alternatives, says James Kierstead

The new UK home secretary must reinstate workers’ right to participate in industrial action regardless of national origin, says Shreya Atrey

A critique of the political class; overcoming groupthink; the father of fractal geometry; the golden age of American teen car culture and a theory of cultural evolutionary psychology

Richard Joyner on a heartening collection of accounts by more than 40 people who participated in worldwide demonstrations for science

The #MeToo movement has cast historical behaviour and curricula in a new, shadowy light. Four writers give us their perspectives

If his late-night photos of the senior common room Christmas party made it into wider circulation, John Brinnamoor would be a dead man

Crackdown leaves professors needing to pay back almost €250,000 each on average

Campaigners fear a huge increase in EU military research spending will lead to development of autonomous weapons

There are now more women than men in higher education worldwide. While it would appear to be a victory for gender equality, this imbalance also highlights boys’ educational underachievement. Ellie Bothwell reports

Look past its offputting claims to originality and this is a thorough review of Nazi texts of all varieties, writes Dan Stone

In Serious Larks, a collection of witty and wide-ranging essays from the philosopher Ted Cohen, a central theme is the need for rules and the pleasures of flouting them

Investigation discovers that three-quarters of advertised posts are filled by an internal candidate

World Bank consultant says India’s decision to relax state control over curricula at some universities is model

International Studies Association calls for King’s College London professor to apologise over ‘ladies’ lingerie’ remark

Quality creative graduates can bring desirable skills to any organisation including media literacy and data analysis, argues Lisette Johnston 

Ivy League university wins praise for formally recognising trade union created by graduate students who teach

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Those who castigate lecturers in anonymous feedback forms should realise their identity is fairly easy to discern, according to academic

Many issues that vex scholarly publishing today were there at the start, says Geoffrey Cantor

Relatively liberal eras cannot restrain subsequent authoritarian regimes, but we can teach societies to see through propaganda, writes Paul Jump

Clive Marsh tunes in to the rock on which evangelicals built appeals to widen their flock

Helen Fulton ponders whether romantic quests can lead readers to revelations

It was at a Munich university that a group of students formed a non-violent movement to resist the Nazi regime. Their courageous idealism sets an example that, Kenneth Asch hopes, continues to flower on campuses

Via clear, vivid storytelling, Simon Mitton takes an engaging learning journey from Mother Earth out to the farthest galaxies

Drug-related crime, rising unemployment and low salaries are all contributing to a postgraduate shortage that indicates an uncertain future for Mexico’s higher education system, finds Rachael Pells

Submissions invited across 18 categories

Embracing immersive content would aid public engagement and bring research and teaching closer together, argue Vincent Tong, Sam Smidt and Matilda Katan 

The university lecture should be seen as a special form of human encounter, argue Amanda Fulford and Áine Mahon

Big hikes in visa, right to remain fees bring ‘under the radar’ issue to fore and prompt post-Brexit worries for EU staff

Hollywood legend’s backfiring legal action offers lessons for universities on essay mills, says researcher

The Wolfson History Prize-nominated professor discusses how China’s past shapes its nationalism and why the Communist Party’s ‘historical nihilist’ label suits him

Higher education institutions are vital not just to research and economic growth but also to ensuring the health of liberal democracy on the continent

Muddled brains and mortality; angry white men; the illustrated Ada Lovelace; and going without God

Universities cannot become Gardens of Eden without losing their key purpose, writes Hanna Holborn Gray

Book of the week: Rachel Moss praises a study that peels back the skin of a misunderstood era often defined by death

Joe Moran enters another dimension, one marked by the absence of sound. Next stop, the quiet zone