Of war zones and frontiers in science
Like the explorers who set out across the unsettled United States, scientists need a similar pioneering and resilient spirit, says Daniel Bojar
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Glasgow professor quits UK over Brexit ‘uncertainties’
Italian medic Fabio Quondamatteo says EU referendum result is behind ‘difficult and painful’ decision to leave for Ireland
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Overseas alumni ‘a missed opportunity’ for Australia
Poorly designed outreach schemes, privacy restrictions and standoffish companies combining to waste resource
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Survey says overseas students doubt returns of Australia study
Research also finds that branch campus graduates earn more than their peers who studied in the West
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Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution, by Andrew G. Walder
Jonathan Mirsky is fascinated by a book that calls into question some of the unexamined received wisdom about China under Mao
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Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800, by Margaret E. Schotte
Sarah Kinkel is very impressed by a detailed account of how navigators learned their skills
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Books editor’s blog: elemental journeys and hellish christenings
Matthew Reisz is intrigued by a gentle stroll through the byways of the periodic table
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Duke of York steps down as Huddersfield chancellor
Students had called for royal to quit over friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
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Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala, by Kevin O’Neill
David Lehmann assesses a journalistic account of clerical abuse in Central America
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The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business, by David T. Courtwright
Lennard Davis is intrigued by an exceptionally wide-ranging account of the many things on which humans get high
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The scandal at the Oxford Union is an opportunity to reassess our values
The forcible removal of a visually impaired student should be met with institutional change for one of Britain’s oldest students’ societies, argues Henry HatwellÂ
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Labour commits £7.2 billion to axeing fees and reviving grants
Manifesto also pledges ‘fundamental rethink’ of teaching and research assessment, plus end to ‘failed free market’ in higher education and to staff casualisation
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The growth mindset
In a marketised system, student numbers are rising. Small universities offer a collegial approach and, for some, better, not bigger, is the key to excellence
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Elizabethan Globalism: England, China and the Rainbow Portrait, by Matthew Dimmock
Ann Hughes applauds a compelling analysis of the ways that Tudor England was open to the world
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Is small still beautiful in the age of the mega-university?
Universities are rapidly expanding their student rolls, using their increased scale to invest, compete and insulate themselves against economic uncertainty. But at what cost, asks Ellie Bothwell