UK HE must stay strong in the face of a 鈥榥o deal鈥 Brexit
Brexit is an opportunity聽for universities to show what they do best: support the economy, bridge international divides and drive innovation, says Smita Jamdar
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Suicide warning over foreign students 鈥榮uffering in silence鈥
Tragedies exacerbated by lack of research and information sharing, coroner鈥檚 study finds
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Oxford blocks Huawei contracts amid security concerns
University spokesman says decision also covers donations but does not affect ongoing partnerships
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Letters 鈥撀17 January 2019
Do the sums before opening a foreign branch As the University of Reading faces egregious losses over its branch campus fiasco (鈥溾榃arning signals ignored鈥 over branch campus losses鈥, News, 3 January...
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Germany signs open access publishing deal with Wiley
Country moves away from subscriptions and towards 鈥榩ublish and read鈥 model
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Share of UK students getting a first goes up again
Latest Hesa data also reveal that part-time enrolments are now below聽500,000
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French university admissions: the cr猫me de la cr猫me?
Reforms to the French university admission system have ushered in greater selectivity in an attempt to address high dropout rates. But without adequate filtering by family background, will this...
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Mobile Orientations: An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders, by Nicola Mai
Barry Reay praises an interdisciplinary study that demolishes stereotypes of slavery, trafficking and exploitation
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What are you reading? 鈥 17 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic partnerships: perfect harmony
Some research disciplines have their very own 鈥楽imon and Garfunkel鈥. Matthew Reisz talks to some of those whose close and enduring collaborations have convinced them that two voices are better than...
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It is time to close the management/staff divide
UK university leaders might be bullish on the subject of institutional failure but the divide between managers and staff needs serious redress
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Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Book of the week: writers shine a light on the disturbing gap between human rights and realpolitik, finds Matthew Joseph
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Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and their Animals in Early Modern England, by Erica Fudge
Ann Hughes visits a time when relationships with animals combined affection and pragmatism
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To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd
Kristen R. Ghodsee learns how Western cultural products imported into the Soviet Union allowed people to travel in their imaginations, despite being physically restricted