The university that took in 50,000 students fleeing Islamic State
Kirkuk hosted students from seven closed universities in captured territory, providing refuge from horror of executions and alternative to fighting for jihadists
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Trump tweets ‘directly cut foreign student interest in US’
‘Real-time’ data from recruiter’s website shows ‘travel ban’ tweets immediately put off Indian students, conference told
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Employability: panacea or Pandora’s box?
The purpose of higher education goes beyond just giving students economically valuable skills. It’s time universities challenge the employability narrative, says Audrey Songhurst
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Jewish students ‘forced to pay extra for campus security’
English minister calls on campus leaders to do more to stamp out antisemitism
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Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice, by Joseph J. Fischel
Joanna Williams assesses a controversial and ‘at times eye-watering’ account of policing sexuality
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Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism, by James Simpson
Alec Ryrie reports from a skirmish in the culture wars that proves surprisingly illuminating
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What are you reading? – 16 May 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us about Science and Authority, by Robert P. Crease
Book of the week: Richard Joyner praises a bold attempt to get to grips with ‘science denial’
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Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception, by Leonard Diepeveen
Charlotte Jones considers the arguments that much pioneering modernist art and literature didn’t really deserve to be taken seriously
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Appointments – 16 May 2019
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Chaucer: A European Life, by Marion Turner
Mary Wellesley is impressed by ‘a new kind of biography’ of a giant of medieval literature
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Letters – 16 May 2019
How should HE respond to climate change? Joanna Kidman makes a good point in her article “We need to talk about climate change” (Features, 9 May). Air travel, as well as travel by car, are major...
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Books interview: Beatrice Heuser
The author of Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union? on extroversion and introversion, political decision making and Bohemian fairy tales
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Acting on principle: University of Cambridge is trying to live up to its values
For a few ‘super universities’, the amplifying effect of their brand turns independent incidents into powerful patterns in the public mind