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

Leading Democrat puts education secretary nominee under pressure on loans and ‘non-existent’ higher education record

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

Tracey Warr on a pair of masters who, with ethereality and earthiness, respectively, puts the captivatingly quotidian on canvasÂ

Kate Macdonald on a study of how garments changed their wearers in early 20th-century Britain

Lucrative offer to professor renews concerns over 'unethical' contracts

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

But L. Rafael Reif admits the university may have to look for alternative funding sources and new ways to ‘stay connected’ to worldÂ

Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science

Helen Bynum on a multilayered tale of an illness’ history that takes in art, science and more

Are Chinese universities doing the same with affiliations as UK institutions do with REF, asks Jack Grove

Our global survey gives a picture of which institutions are best at producing senior business leaders worldwide. John Elmes reports

John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Scholars ponder the ethical dilemmas of assessing the new president from afarÂ

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding