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In the last two decades the number of mainland students going abroad to study has increased more than twentyfold, but what does this mean for employment, asks Ka Ho Mok

Threats over content available in China reveal difficult line academic community must tread

Yusra Mouzughi on the challenges of doing business when universities take a break

Southampton Solent University’s Tere Daly responds to the former political adviser’s article in today’s Daily Telegraph

Key figures from the university sector respond to the 2017 A-level results

UK needs an antidote to London dominance and toxic deindustrialisation, says John Morgan

Think carefully about treating students differently because of their backgrounds

Together, FE and HE can become a dynamic force for skills development in the UK, writes Alison Whittle

Taking in a refugee student posed more challenges than Sharon Maxwell Magnus was expecting, but the effort was well worth it

Phil Baty has the latest on the publication of the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which will be launched in London in September

The effectiveness of the NSS boycott means it is now time for universities to sit up and listen, says Sorana Vieru

Joanne Taylor and Genefor Walker-Smith on the importance of scholarly rigour – even when the media want answers fast

The success of the student boycott of the National Student Survey is not necessarily a success for students, writes Andrew McRae 

Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom

Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal

Many students aren’t reporting sexual harassment or assault on campus despite efforts to tackle the problem, say Hareem Ghani and Graham Towl

Joanna Dally and Frances Downey imagine the research culture of the future

Prevent monitoring and defeat of legal challenge shows that anti-extremism policy is not limiting academic freedom, says Hifsa Harron-Iqbal

Expanding degree apprenticeships will strengthen universities’ important role in improving their local communities, says Dawn Morley

The UK's ‘red line’ on free movement of labour may prevent its students from participating in the Erasmus exchange programme, says European Union law expert

John McCormack has been speaking to teaching-only staff at Russell Group universities, and they have plenty of reasons to be annoyed

UK leads drive towards more open way of sharing science, says Jo Johnson

Nazima Kadir’s social circle reveals a range of alternative careers for would-be scholars, and often with better rewards than academia

Yale-NUS College has just graduated its first students, writes Trisha Craig

Universities are at least aware of the gender pay problem, says Alex Holmes, but there is still work to be done

There is no ‘hard divide between academics and administrators’, writes Charles Knight in response to criticisms of academic university staff

How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade

There are several stumbling blocks on the way to negotiating access to European research funding, writes Holly Else

Helping students into ‘tougher’ universities means that they are statistically more likely to drop out, says Huw Owen

Collaboration between universities is more vital than ever as higher education becomes more marketised, say Indre Urbanaviciute and Rhiannon Llystyn Jones

Tony Hey charts the progress of the US and UK Open Science movement 

Sally Hunt says new London Economics analysis of loan repayments has exposed the lie that student funding is progressive

John Tregoning has a plan to help TEF metrics support performance, scientific excellence and personal development

Andy Westwood gives his verdict on Jo Johnson's big HE speech

Chris Parr takes a look at proposals to introduce TEF ratings in 35 different subject areas

Scholars are ignorant of many aspects of peer review, and part of the problem is that researching it is a bit like kicking the hornet’s nest, says Martin Eve

When it comes to openness, biggest hurdle is human factor, says David Doherty

Even in an unpredictable world, there are clues about the future of student movement, says Anna Esaki-Smith 

In the competition to boost their reputations, are universities in danger of forgetting their students? asks Juan Manuel Mora

Current fees system ‘isn’t perfect’, but it does a decent job of balancing the interests of universities, students and taxpayers, says Tim Bradshaw

Former education minister speaks out on vice-chancellors’ pay, ‘summer holidays’ and academics’ workloads

There are many reasons why academics shun new pedagogical styles, say Lauren Herckis, Richard Scheines and Joel Smith

Chris Parr visits a university aiming to be the best in the world at both Western and traditional Chinese medicine

The election of President Trump and Brexit have created a perception that the US and UK no longer welcome international student mobility, say Aldwyn Cooper and Marguerite Dennis

Does the UK have the best structures in place to fund data-driven research? asks Steven Hill

Survey of university admissions staff paints an unflattering picture of today’s students, finds Jeremy Lewis

Futao Huang says that calls for Japan’s national universities to adopt more marketised leadership strategies have so far gone unheeded

Should we be talking about Ofcoll and the ‘degree experience framework’? Diana Beech thinks so

Shadow HE minister Gordon Marsden believes that the current approach to tuition fees could end up punishing not only students, but whole communities

Calls among graduates to limit student numbers are not selfish, but may instead reflect concern about the value of university education, say Duncan Watson and Robert Webb

Gill Seyfang - who is presenting at the Higher Education Academy's annual conference - explains how improv comedy in lectures can inspire students

Wherever you are, populism and its effect on universities is never far from conversation, finds Chris Parr

Emily Van Duyne on why she missed graduation despite being passionately committed to her students

Paul Feldman explains why the UK must be ready to embrace research collaborations on an increasingly international scale

It is time to revisit the idea of a graduate tax, argues Andy Green

Geoffrey Boulton writes the first in a series of articles from Jisc on research in the age of open science

Ahead of the 2017 THE Research Excellence Summit, taking place in Taiwan from tomorrow, we hear from Partha S. Mallick on the importance of valuing talent

Joanne Roberts on the importance of mentoring, and understanding the needs of your staff