Brexit, xenophobia and foreign students: combating 鈥榩ublic paranoia鈥 over immigration
People are about 15 per cent more likely to favour capping the number of international students when primed to think about them 鈥渃rowding out鈥 domestic students
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Australia: graduate employment and employer satisfaction rise
But聽graduates from more affluent backgrounds fare better, survey finds
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Alumni oppose Australian university鈥檚 name-change proposal
Petition opposing Charles Sturt University鈥檚 plan attracts more than 5,000 signatures
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Letters 鈥撀10 January 2019
Civic role vital to winning long-term security In his leading article 鈥淎聽defining moment鈥 (3 January), John Gill starts with a question: what are universities for? He then suggests with some...
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Welcome advances for universities
Universities may feel held to unachievable standards, but removing barriers for all manner of talented people will make institutions better and stronger
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PhDs without tears: how academics can help ease students鈥 minds
With many doctoral candidates unhappy and reporting mental health problems, Emma Pierson suggests ways supervisors could reduce pressures
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, by Robert Plomin
Danny Dorling learns about the extent to which our DNA dictates how we lead our lives
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When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, by Jason Brennan
Lisa Mckenzie finds a challenging but essential piece of reading in an age of failing political systems and distrustful citizens
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Books interview: Diana Holmes
The professor of French on what led to her interest in 鈥榤iddlebrow鈥 literature, and how ethically serious books can still be page-turners
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University admissions: which system is the fairest?
Standardised test scores, interviews, entrance exams, choosing the top percentage of applicants: all are used in university admissions. Ellie Bothwell asks which methods provide the most honest...
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Sultan of Swing: The Life of David Butler, by Michael Crick
Ivor Gaber enjoys a biography of an Oxford don who became the UK鈥檚 first on-screen pollster
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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt, by C. W. Anderson
鈥楳ore objective鈥 news reporting has not necessarily yielded better politics, finds Suzanne Franks
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What are you reading? 鈥 10 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World, by Christopher Partridge
Book of the week: it鈥檚 human to crave spiritual transcendence, even through psychedelics, writes Andrew Hussey
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Hoax against 鈥榞rievance studies鈥 may get academic fired
Portland State University says Peter Boghossian鈥檚 attack聽on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval