Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life, by Joseph Leo Koerner
Tracey Warr on a pair of masters who, with ethereality and earthiness, respectively, puts the captivatingly quotidian on canvas
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At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, by Celia Marshik
Kate Macdonald on a study of how garments changed their wearers in early 20th-century Britain
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Cash-for-publications is ‘common practice’
Lucrative offer to professor renews concerns over 'unethical' contracts
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What are you reading? – 19 January 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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MIT president: Trump ‘will not change our mission’
But L. Rafael Reif admits the university may have to look for alternative funding sources and new ways to ‘stay connected’ to world
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Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab, by Tommaso Dorigo
Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science
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Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery, by Jonathan Lamb
Helen Bynum on a multilayered tale of an illness’ history that takes in art, science and more
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Is cash-for-papers worse than UK game-playing?
Are Chinese universities doing the same with affiliations as UK institutions do with REF, asks Jack Grove
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THE Alma Mater Index 2017: who educates the global business elite?
Our global survey gives a picture of which institutions are best at producing senior business leaders worldwide. John Elmes reports
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A new frontier: US academia under President Trump
John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives
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The week in higher education – 19 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Trump: is it right for academics to discuss his state of mind?
Scholars ponder the ethical dilemmas of assessing the new president from afar
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Grant winners – 19 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Why we teach our students to read between the lies
Universities teach attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning, which 1930s Germany, 1990s Rwanda and now today’s US show us are vital, argues Donald E. Hall