Trump has little in the way of strategy on higher education, but the sector could still suffer collateral damage in the president’s desperate search for a legislative win, says John Aubrey Douglass
The scholarly better halves of literary sleuths flatter academic readers’ egos with their virtue, says Emily Michelson
Internet entrepreneurs will not rest until they have made physical universities obsolete, predicts Glyn Davis
Accreditation of research methods should be a mandatory requirement for publication in journals, says Peter Thompson
In a pair of books exploring aspects of Jewish identity, Devorah Baum reflects on Jewishness and the human condition. She talks about turning uncomfortable ‘Jewish feelings’ such as guilt into...
Book of the week: No longer young, not yet old, the middle-aged academic sees the world askew, says Joe Moran
Rewriting the rules of journalism; pondering ways of thinking; competing with capitalism; marginalised scientists; and a history of jealousy
David Matthews learns how archivists deal with enquiries about material collected by the former East Germany’s secret police that can still destroy reputations
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Charts also illustrate how developing nations concentrate their research on a narrower set of fields