Reading great literature won’t improve Trump, says Colm TóibÃn
Brooklyn author reflects on the new US president, Brexit and literature as he becomes chancellor of the University of Liverpool
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Data analysis: latest Hesa figures on state school entrants
Some members of Russell Group still lag behind sector on access for state school students
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Sir Mark Walport: my ambition as first chief of UKRI
The new CEO of UKRI, Sir Mark Walport, says a shake-up of UK research funding is needed if the country is to remain internationally competitive
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Reaction: UK higher education sector responds to Ucas application figures
Key figures from the sector have their say on ‘worrying’ figures
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Concerns raised over Sir Mark Walport’s new powers
Scientists have mixed reactions to announcement of UKRI leader
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Trump makes funding threat to Berkeley over cancelled speech
US president attacks institution on Twitter after Milo Yiannopoulos event sparks violence
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World insight: a challenging time for cosmopolitan education
Pericles Lewis, founding president of Yale-NUS college, on a turbulent time for the liberal arts
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Thinking in Cases, by John Forrester
A study explores how individual instances shape universal truths across subjects, says Janet Sayers
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The Future of Live, by Karin van Es
Tara Brabazon on a study examining the concept and forms of liveness in media studies
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What are you reading? – 2 February 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights, by Paolo Lemos Horta
Shahidha Bari on a rich account of all the voices that shaped and reshaped the Arabian Nights
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A New Deal for China’s Workers?, by Cynthia Estlund
A survey of the labour landscape under the Chinese Communist Party would be stronger with more voices of working people, says Jonathan Mirsky
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Books interview: Julia Fischer
The behavioural scientist on the call of the wild, Jane Goodall, research in remote places, and her waiting-to-be-read pile