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Don’t blame university support staff for not joining the strike over pensions – it is because too often they are left out of the conversation, says Fiona Whelan

Talk of making arts degrees cheaper than science courses disregards the mix of disciplines that creative industries demand, says Bashir Makhoul

Pensions industry must use academia’s knowledge to create more imaginative solutions to global pensions crisis, argues Lionel Martellini

Ahead of University Mental Health Day on 1 March, Robin Brinkworth argues that institutions must become far more open and accountable on how they are handling student problems

Warwick's vice-chancellor Stuart Croft explains how radical government action might help to avert the pensions strike affecting half of all UK universities

Extraordinary demand for a conference on how universities support staff with invisible disabilities highlights how ableism remains widespread in academia, argue Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown

Free Speech University Rankings coordinator Tom Slater says academics are peddling myths and smears to downplay the shocking level of censorship on campus

Nottingham Trent University’s chair of governors Neil Goulden explains why institutions need to do more to regain public esteem

Academics do not want to damage students' education but strike action is the only option left to protect pensions, says Sam Marsh

Alexander Clark and Bailey Sousa urge academics to leave their ‘fixed mindsets’ behind if they want their careers to flourish

The prime minister’s review of higher education is an exercise in self-harm that will also inflict damage on universities, says Patrick McGhee

Threats to dock pay from university staff working only their hours during the USS pensions dispute ignore academics’ unpaid hours, says Will Pooley

Murky cross-subsidy between university courses must be addressed by the government’s review of higher education funding, argues David Robinson

Former education secretary Justine Greening explains her plans for a graduate contribution system that funds universities in the same way that national insurance covers state pensions

Launching the post-18 education review in Derby tells you all you need to know about why yet another look at HE is vital for the prime minister’s political future

The University of Essex’s vice-chancellor explains why he disagrees with Universities UK’s position on USS pension reform

Making arts and humanities degrees cheaper than science courses would be 'cultural heresy' and 'economic barbarism', argues the University of Hertfordshire's vice-chancellor Quintin McKellar

Sheffield Hallam University's vice-chancellor Chris Husbands explains why cutting tuition fees would harm social mobility and why variable fees are also a bad idea

Ahead of the prime minister’s speech on reforming university funding, Charles B. W. Prince suggests four routes to improving student finance

Getting professional experience puts postgraduates in situations that they are unlikely to have faced in their university life, says Alfredo Cumerma

The evidence used to compile Spiked Online’s Free Speech Rankings is not to be trusted, says Carl Thompson

Sarah Stevens looks at how universities are endeavouring to deliver the skills and learning the UK needs

Compound interest rates of 6.1 per cent on student loans are unfair and create a debt trap responsible for today’s worsening mental health crisis, says Estelle Clarke

The ‘leaky pipeline’ metaphor for the lack of women at senior levels of academia can demotivate those whose professional paths meander, says Aileen Fyfe

A law graduate’s attempt to sue the University of Oxford for £1 million over ‘inadequate teaching’ sheds far more light on how students learn than current TEF metrics, says Gill Evans

Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence, argues Robert MacIntosh

Attending the criminal trial of a dissident scholar brings home the inhumanity of Turkey’s academic purge, says Masi Noor, and underlines the importance of showing solidarity

Universities must resist the urge to make knee-jerk cuts after disappointing application numbers – better times are on the horizon and we must be prepared, says Zahir Irani

New Office for Students guidance hints at a more adversarial approach to sector that most wish to avoid, says Gill Evans

Accepting that your doctoral studies will sometimes take second place to family commitments is part of the journey of a PhD student mother, says Annabelle Workman

Universities must dramatically increase their levels of technical training to close the skills gap and deliver social justice, says Robert Halfon

Growing interest in the student mental health crisis is welcome, but it is overburdened hourly paid lecturers who are most at risk of stress in universities, says Sam Christie

Qatar is improving its university system faster than any other world economy, explains Cesar Wazen

Universities must do more to tackle the class privilege that is still rife in the ranks of academia, says Louise Morley

Long-held beliefs about the UK’s hierarchy of institutions do not stand up to scrutiny, and hold back progress, argues Edward Peck

As Theresa May concludes her trade visit to China, Tim Bradshaw reflects on how research-intensive universities have paved the way for increased East-West trade

Explore the latest offering in our teaching-focused rankings portfolio, says THE’s data and analytics director Duncan Ross 

The huge economic benefits of international students to the US economy must not be ignored by President Trump, warns one US university leader

It is incumbent on the government to help build better ties between companies such as Google and the university sector, says Alex Acland

Not every course takes three years to complete, says Charles Prince, so we must look at ways to deliver accelerated programmes

The University of London’s Leading Women campaign is celebrating the pioneering women who joined the university 150 years ago, writes Philip Carter 

Dorothy Bishop wishes people would stop reinforcing the idea that universities are places of privilege where the staff sit idly around thinking ‘great thoughts’

The teaching of ethics in drama overlooks how theatre-makers should be treated, and how they should treat one another, while doing their jobs, says Daniel Foster 

David Pitt-Watson and Hari Mann believe there could be a way to settle the ongoing pensions row amicably

With student numbers falling as fees rise, drastic action is needed to widen participation, says Claire Callender

Scott Anthony takes issue with claims that Singapore’s leading universities have neglected local intellectual life

Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses

The stressful postgraduate environment often leads not to solidarity but to the impoverishment of research, says Alfredo Cumerma

Almost 2,350 academics from non-UK European countries have resigned from UK universities in the past year, and Layla Moran fears that could be just the tip of the iceberg

Unconditional offers harm A-level performance, but contextual offers do not – and they better target social mobility, says John Law

Matthew Reisz meets the scholars for whom one discipline is not enough

THE’s rankings editor Phil Baty sets out why the World University Rankings are here to stay – and why that's a good thing

Ongoing ministerial education reviews risk treating technical and academic education as separate pathways, says Quintin McKellar, and this could be to the detriment of both

Mary Visser asks if universities are delivering for people born in the late 1990s

Criticism of academic sisterhood survey gets to the crux of the matter that the resulting article will explore, says Holly Else

Thomas Curran looks at what lecturers can do to help when faced with students presenting perfectionistic tendencies

With students paying higher fees and expecting better facilities, UK universities must find sustainable ways to increase capital expenditure, says Philip Stephenson

Dorothy Bishop will not miss Jo Johnson, but is under no illusions that new minister Sam Gyimah will overturn any of his reforms

Hollie Chandler urges ministers not to underestimate the true contribution of international students to the UK

Sir Anthony Seldon explains why he was pleased to see Toby Young resign from the Office for Students, despite initially applauding the appointment