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

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

But聽graduates from more affluent backgrounds fare better, survey finds

Petition opposing Charles Sturt University鈥檚 plan attracts more than 5,000 signatures
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...

Universities may feel held to unachievable standards, but removing barriers for all manner of talented people will make institutions better and stronger

With many doctoral candidates unhappy and reporting mental health problems, Emma Pierson suggests ways supervisors could reduce pressures

Danny Dorling learns about the extent to which our DNA dictates how we lead our lives

Lisa Mckenzie finds a challenging but essential piece of reading in an age of failing political systems and distrustful citizens

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

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...

Ivor Gaber enjoys a biography of an Oxford don who became the UK鈥檚 first on-screen pollster

鈥楳ore objective鈥 news reporting has not necessarily yielded better politics, finds Suzanne Franks

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Book of the week: it鈥檚 human to crave spiritual transcendence, even through psychedelics, writes Andrew Hussey

Portland State University says Peter Boghossian鈥檚 attack聽on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval