A new frontier: US academia under President Trump
John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake鈥檚 potential positives
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The week in higher education 鈥 19 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Trump: is it right for academics to discuss his state of mind?
Scholars ponder the ethical dilemmas of assessing the new president from afar聽
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Grant winners 鈥 19 January 2017
A round-up of聽academics awarded research council funding
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Why we teach our students to read between the lies
Universities teach attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning, which 1930s Germany, 1990s Rwanda and now today鈥檚 US show us are vital, argues Donald E. Hall
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Study people, not numbers, for truth post Trump鈥檚 election
Social science must return to qualitative research to understand social and political shifts, say Pamela Prickett and Elaine Howard Ecklund
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Post-Trump, even my cheeriest students finally 鈥榞et鈥 Kafka
Existentialism may now seem more relevant to philosophy undergraduates, but a woeful John Kaag shares their mood of blank despair聽
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The bottom line on blue-sky thinking
Although I鈥檇 agree with virtually everything in the feature on Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter (鈥淵ou can鈥檛 order up a breakthrough鈥, 12 January), the need to push for even more funding of blue-sky...
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Not forgotten
I write regarding a blog post that appeared on 20 December, 鈥淜ing鈥檚 College London 鈥榳rong鈥 to erase George Carey from wall of fame鈥 (www.timeshighereducation.com), relating to the removal from King鈥檚...
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Peruvian pathways
In 鈥淟ack of HE collaboration in Latin America 鈥榞oes back centuries鈥欌 (News, 12 January), Fredric Michael Litto discusses why there is relatively little collaboration between universities and scholars...
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Split shifts
Re 鈥淟ecturers 鈥榤issing鈥 learning strategies used by poorer students鈥 (News, 12 January). Undergraduates from poor backgrounds have to take paid employment a significant part of the time during their...
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First world problem
While it can be said that there is 鈥渁n oversupply of PhDs鈥 in Western Europe, the same cannot be said of the developing world (鈥淟et the right ones in: limiting PhDs creates the wrong kind of elite鈥,...
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Gove liked us once
I am so pleased that Michael Gove clarified that when he denounced 鈥渆xperts鈥, he meant only economists (鈥淔acing iceberg alley鈥, Leader, 12 January). He certainly approved of experts in 2011, when, as...