As president, Trump may be less an aberration than some think, but he attracts those whose only politics is to ‘send in a wrecking ball’, writes Martin Cohen
Survey results emerge amid mounting criticism of government’s hopes of delivering greater price competition
Academics do not want to damage students' education but strike action is the only option left to protect pensions, says Sam Marsh
European universities, despite public dismay about Brexit, also privately see it as an opportunity to poach UK-based academics
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team
The Middlesex University expert in stand-up comedy discusses working in the West Bank, collaborating with Mark Thomas, and falling into academia
Pioneer of innovative methods of landscape archaeology remembered
Employers and workers want higher-level skills but apprenticeship infrastructure is still built around further education, says Adrian Anderson
Market forces unleashed on the UK university sector have pushed up senior pay, fuelled the rows over it and posed questions about ‘value for money’ that are shaping the future of universities
Andrew McRae explores what effects the value debate could have on the structure of the sector
Revolution in Ukraine; the complexities of judging; international espionage past and present; neurogastronomy; and the surprising longevity of the kibbutz
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Book of the week: Biancamaria Fontana on a masterly defence of the values of modernity against ‘progressophobes’
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