Anthony King: trenchant political commentator dies aged 82
Fellow political scientists pay tribute to the scholarly achievements of a man best-known as a television pundit during British elections
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Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success, by Janice M. McCabe
Friends can help undergraduates blossom, but there’s not enough mixing of students from different backgrounds, says Lorenza Antonucci
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Trump presidency starts battle over trillion-dollar student loans
Leading Democrat puts education secretary nominee under pressure on loans and ‘non-existent’ higher education record
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Books interview: Sari Nusseibeh
The author and philosopher on his journey from Western thought to early Arabic scholarship as well as novels that detail daily life in today’s Muslim world
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life, by Joseph Leo Koerner
Tracey Warr on a pair of masters who, with ethereality and earthiness, respectively, puts the captivatingly quotidian on canvasÂ
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At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, by Celia Marshik
Kate Macdonald on a study of how garments changed their wearers in early 20th-century Britain
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Cash-for-publications is ‘common practice’
Lucrative offer to professor renews concerns over 'unethical' contracts
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What are you reading? – 19 January 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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MIT president: Trump ‘will not change our mission’
But L. Rafael Reif admits the university may have to look for alternative funding sources and new ways to ‘stay connected’ to worldÂ
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Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab, by Tommaso Dorigo
Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science
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Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery, by Jonathan Lamb
Helen Bynum on a multilayered tale of an illness’ history that takes in art, science and more
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Is cash-for-papers worse than UK game-playing?
Are Chinese universities doing the same with affiliations as UK institutions do with REF, asks Jack Grove
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THE Alma Mater Index 2017: who educates the global business elite?
Our global survey gives a picture of which institutions are best at producing senior business leaders worldwide. John Elmes reports
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A new frontier: US academia under President Trump
John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives
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The week in higher education – 19 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media