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Victims need the certainty that worries and complaints will be listened to and that investigations will be fair-minded, says Owen Bubbers-Jones

Apparently widespread use of Bluetooth earpieces by medical school entrance candidates in one province has forced a re-sit, say four researchers 

Researchers mustn’t be obliged to second-guess which results might not play out well in public or with powerful interests, worries Tracey Brown

As the cuts to the USS scheme are reversed, the UCU’s battle for better pay and conditions goes on. Members must vote ‘yes’ to more action, says Jo Grady

Only offering discounts for publication in fully open access journals is limiting the options of researchers in lower-income countries, says Daniel Keirs

‘The change’ is finally starting to get the attention it deserves, but the issues go far beyond the medical field, say Joanne Ella Parsons and Ruth Heholt

The post-war scheme is 75 years old this year, but global conditions still cry out for inclusive international collaboration initiatives, says Maria Balinska

As Max Weber taught, scholars must respect the distinction between facts and values, says Martyn Hammersley

Nurturing investigative skills will make for a better democracy – even if it embarasses campus administrators in the process, says Harvey Graff

Schools should bring together academics, students and practitioners to address urgent business issues, say Kakoli Sen and Anindo Bhattacharjee

Disadvantaged learners could also be offered financial support at school and monetary incentives to stay in higher education, says Jack Price

Greater understanding of the risks will help plot a sensible course between academic freedom and government control, says Fiona Quimbre

The challenge for universities seeking greater openness, innovation and collaboration is they can’t do it on their own, say Ian Matthias and Mike Boxall

While academics may be dismissive, the process helps their professional colleagues recognise their own scholarly contributions, say four of them

Annual meetings should be reimagined as spaces that enable connections – including with practitioners and the media, says Noam Schimmel

The UK government is freezing ‘troublemaking’ educationalists out of policymaking. Universities should model better forms of debate, says Clare Brooks

The increased weighting of the environment section poses risks in an era when EDI is increasingly politicised, say Alice Sullivan and John Armstrong 

We who are the beneficiaries of technology must also listen and respond to the voices of frustration if science is to regain public trust, says Keith Burnett

Increased visa fees and health surcharges are likely to compound the Brexit effect on EU academics’ willingness to stay in the UK, say five researchers

The historical disconnect between teaching and research makes it easy to restrict expression without provoking much outrage, says Saikat Majumdar

We need to encourage and support scientists to leap into the unknown to solve our grand challenges faster and more equitably, says Xiangkun Cao

The internationalisation process should centre on quality assurance – but this is not necessarily a top priority in post-conflict regions, says Michèle Wera

Creating a cross-border qualification within a year is hugely ambitious but the wider benefits of mobility should be huge, say Jo Angouri and Jan Palmowski

The UK government’s deeply flawed Online Safety Bill reflects widespread ignorance about tech – even within higher education, says Andy Farnell

Experiences in the Congo and the US Congress taught Stephen Weissman that adventurous academics need self-examination and thoughtful adaptation

MBAs replaced liberal arts with business courses. Demands for humanised corporations require a reversal, say Donald Drakeman and Kendall Hack

Some politicians are using the supposed ideological character of research to justify imposing greater control over it, says Martyn Hammersley

Many ask why we assume a combined university will offer more. The answer is that we are purposefully designing it that way, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd

THE’s SSA advisory board launches with members from countries across the region

The only way to get a permanent contract seems to be to take a teaching position. But that isn’t where my skills or interests lie, says Vanessa Baxter

As a human activity, research cannot but be cultural as much as it is scientific, say Annamaria Carusi and Shomari Lewis-Wilson

The changing nature of work and technology, as well as an evolving population and environment, call for a more inclusive system, says Alec Cameron

Universities and colleges should not cut their own financial support if a student receives an external scholarship, says Wyatt Deihl

Developing countries should not hesitate to tap the sustainable development expertise abundant in graduate schools, says Lucia Rodriguez 

With more support, care leavers could close the progression gap in much less than a century, says Monica Alejandra Henaõ-De-Castro

The effective ban on any form of anti-Zionism or harsh criticism of Israel has had a detrimental impact on my life and career progression, says Clive Gabay

Our research suggests men still have a greater chance of attaining influential postions than women, say Zhengyang Bao and Difang Huang

Rationalising resources is the official reason for proposed mergers, but Albanian history suggests a darker motive, says Arjan Shahini

Academics should be aware of how cohorts are structured so they can enable students to better distribute their emotional labour, says Miriam Johnson

For university students, living matters as much as learning. Piling pressure on local private rental markets helps no one, says Lorna Fox O’Mahony

Affordable AI-powered writing software offers some hope to scholars unfairly criticised for their imperfect English, but more radical change is required, says Natalia Kucirkova

As university libraries invest heavily in digital resources, Caroline Ball explains why physical books are still vital for research, teaching and the preservation of knowledge

Academia and the armed forces may seem worlds apart, but officer training has valuable lessons for university managers, says former Indian army veteran-turned-professor Vikas Rai Bhatnagar

University educators may not fully understand generative AI or its long-term impact on society, but they must seek to integrate the technology into degree courses, says Stephanie Marshall

Litigation over lockdown-affected degrees has highlighted how unfair contracts favouring universities offer scant consumer protection to students, say David Palfreyman and Dennis Farrington

Politicians, the public and judges have grown tired of deferring to universities’ opaque decision-making processes, as illustrated by Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in admissions, say Anthony Carnevale and Peter Schmidt

Seven years after he took the ‘big leap’ out of academia, John Ankers explains what he’s learned from life coaching other scholars who are mulling a change of career

Faculty often feel they’re always on the job because of technology and the stress can stem from not feeling totally in control, writes Betheny Gross

If Stanford’s now-departed president had fully faced up to dubious practices in his lab and insisted on corrections, his infractions of research integrity could have been forgiven, says David Sanders

At the heart of the debate about the global competitiveness of EU-funded research is the question of whether science should be a tool for industrial policy or a global power for good, says Jan Palmowski

Limits on free speech, funding cuts and political appointments at public universities risk squandering a golden opportunity to create a thriving higher education system, says Saikat Majumdar

I’m externally funded to do research but I help colleagues by teaching on top. How can it be right to punish me for partial performance, asks Philip Moriarty

Every day that the prime minister delays further diminishes the UK’s reputation in Europe, says Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf

If AI can perform or simulate a competency being assessed, is it really appropriate for students to use it, asks Andrew West

The curricula of the most advanced science and technology subjects contain little space for moral and social insight, says Andy Miah

Reducing the number of universities in South Australia would fly in the face of the Universities Accord’s call for more differentiation, says Warren Bebbington

While domestic student numbers are declining, India’s vast underserved student cohort offer solutions for both nations, says Kyuseok Kim

The mutual suspicion of autonomous bureaucracies ignores the multifarious needs of living, learning, maturing young people, says Harvey Graff

There is an important place for such training, but it is markedly at odds with many of the established values of the university, says Ian Pace

The impact agenda has been kind to me, but its obsession with science and growth are huge flaws. Time to get out, says Rupert Read