Populism and polarisation ‘threaten science’, Nobel laureates say
Times Higher Education poll of globe's greatest minds highlights threat of divided politics to academia and research
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‘Never knowingly relevant’: Melvyn Bragg’s recipe for the success of In Our Time
The radio show In Our Time is a sort of academic seminar on the airwaves. Its presenter tells Matthew Reisz about bringing scholars to the public, and the risks UK academia faces
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Books interview: Ciara Cremin
The sociologist and author of on finding her voice, tights and superheroes, and why people are told to ‘man up’ but never to ‘woman up’
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What are you reading? – 31 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir A. Desai
Book of the week: Great writing can enlighten and encourage dialogue between disciplines, says Gary Morson
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The PhD student’s guide to summer
Lazy days? Not likely. In between reading, visiting the archives and doing fieldwork, you’ll barely have time to think
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Grand assembly: a Nobel view of universities, science and the future
A survey of 50 laureates is full of insight, warnings and the can-do attitudes powering ‘beautiful minds’
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The Charybdis at the centre of the USS
As others have pointed out in these pages, recent reporting on the health of the Universities Superannuation Scheme pension fund has been alarmist and misleading (“Estimates may vary”, Letters, 10...
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Science for all
We live in a bewildering, interconnected world of technology and massive datasets underpinned by major advances that science is delivering at an apparently accelerating pace. However, it seems that...
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No, nothing special
If I were a professor, I might get my own office in which I could keep actual things that I might wish to save in the event of a fire (“A roomful of riches”, Features, 24 August). There is nothing in...
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Experts must fight back
Amid growing indifference to the public value of universities, the LSE’s Minouche Shafik suggests four ways to restore confidence and pride in the academy