By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch. As much as I am horrified by Trump’s words, I am not surprised. Recent surveys have shown that torture has the support of roughly two-thirds of the US population: 82% of Republicans and 53% of Democrats believe it is justified at least some of the time. More...
By Anonymous Academic. After discovering a few dodgy lines in a book, I found a PhD thesis full of ‘borrowed’ phrases – yet the cheat has faced no repercussions. More...
By Student finance. This year I finally managed to clear my student loan that had been hanging over my head for 12 years. More...
By . We have failed to engage enough with public and done little to address the under-representation of working-class researchers. More...
By Alice Bell. Amid the row over Brexit, the sector must loosen links to society’s elite and speak up for those who have been marginalised. More...
By A J Angulo. Americans embraced the marketisation of higher education, with profit-making colleges and debt-laden customers. The result has been corruption and failure. More...
By Ashley Lenihan and Sharon Witherspoon. Looking to Norway or Switzerland as a model offers no easy answers. Post-referendum uncertainties threaten long-term damage to social science. More...
By Harriet Swain. An international course – Schwarzman Scholars – aims to train its students to ‘change the course of history’. The advisers include Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair. More...
By Nicola Blackwood. The UK science community has been left reeling by the implications of the referendum result. Today, the House of Commons science and technology committee launches an inquiry to help identify a way forward. More...
By Patrick Wintour. Swiss-EU talks reveal determination of EU to make no concessions to UK over Brexit terms. More...
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