Interview with Isaac Larsen
We discuss the challenges facing early career researchers, parenthood and tearful graduations with the award-winning University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist
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After the rise of Trump, the rise of Trump studies
Academics just keep on finding new ways of exploring the phenomenon of the US president
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Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941-1945, by Mark Edele
Quislings who joined Nazis to survive were erased from Russian history, observes Jonathan Mirsky
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow Walls
Catherine Clinton enters the beguiling lost world of a complex literary figure and seeker of truth
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The Wealth Paradox: Economic Prosperity and the Hardening of Attitudes, by Frank Mols and Jolanda Jetten
The notion that only the ‘left-behind’ poor are xenophobic is a myth, Eliane Glaser learns
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Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming, by Benjamin R. Barber
Steven Yearley considers the argument that metropolitan centres, not nation states, hold the power to take the lead on climate change
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More UK universities appeal against TEF ratings
UEA and Soas among institutions challenging awards in sector-wide assessment of teaching quality
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Machine learning: universities ready students for AI revolution
Sydney’s move towards programmes focused on problem-solving designed to address rise of artificial intelligence and automation
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The week in higher education – 3 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Carrots and sticks are not enough in Indonesia
Without more research funding, senior Indonesian academics are unlikely to be able to meet new government-imposed publication standards, says Martin Surya Mulyadi
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Higher spending is not the key to equity
Before pouring more public or private money into universities, politicians must ensure that all students are properly prepared, says Warren Bebbington
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Academic media angels can wing it to 24/7th heaven
Academics able to link their expertise to world events can raise their personal and institutional profiles to previously unimaginable levels, says Russell Reader
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What are you reading? – 3 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Do critical thinking skills give graduates the edge?
It has long been claimed that critical thinking ability sets graduates apart. But are universities really preparing students for the modern workplace? David Matthews reports