Opinion

In this age of austerity, delaying reimbursements owed to external examiners is inexcusable, opines Iain Stevenson

An Oxford survey into attitudes to marketisation offers food for thought on our intellectual future, says Teresa Morgan

More women attend university now, but there are still too few in senior posts. It's time to tackle the barriers, says Louise Morley

Statutory regulation is not the answer, says Tim Luckhurst of the Leveson report. The press must be free and control itself

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Moocs promise to strike at the heart of traditional higher education delivery, but it needn’t mean the chop for universities

Universities’ monopoly on certifying expertise is at risk, warns Tamson Pietsch

The CDBU is a broad church that aims to represent all who care for higher education, Mary Margaret McCabe writes

Fred Inglis responds to the secretary of state for business' defence of the 'swift and absolute destruction of the idea of a university'

Researchers didn't hold back when EPSRC head Paul Golby asked for feedback on the council's workings. Things will improve, he vows

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Racial equality is sliding down the government’s agenda, says Sally Feldman

Politicians, pay heed: if you bottle the post-Leveson chance to reform the nationals, heaven help British public life, warns Steven Barnett

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Rather than assuming bigger is better, we must trial research laboratory effectiveness before concluding which size is just right

Technicians, the academy’s ‘Cinderellas’, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy

The CDBU’s set-up is too narrow, too limiting: to fulfil its aims it must reach out and diversify, argues Alice Bell

Christopher Bigsby on cases not of single spies but battalions

New-found restraint over research council applications should be praised but will it survive further funding cuts?

Alan Ryan asks: how many Sandys will it take for us to change our ways?

The academy is paying too much, not too little, heed to calls for adaptability to the market, says Hannah Forsyth

Mission groups are bearing the brunt of institutions' growing need for a strong individual identity, find Julian Beer and Wendy Purcell

The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable

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A state-imposed merger of three Welsh institutions threatens self-government in the sector, Barbara Wilding warns

A declining, out-of-touch discipline and its vocational counterpart must merge to offer a thriving third way, argues Toby Miller

The growing middle classes will place huge demands on resources; universities have a pivotal role to play in the solution, says David King

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Obamacare is undemocratic; we will resist, vows Felipe Fernández-Armesto

In the high fees era, debates about teaching qualifications will be just as pointed in the lecture hall as in the classroom

Not a peep from Finch as scholarly journal firms fly off to tax havens and grow ever more profitable. Simon Lilley does the sorry sums

OERs are touted as the answer to all manner of global ills, but much work is needed before they fulfil the promise, writes Jeremy Knox

We aim to help all our students progress, says Malcolm Gillies

Casual wear is not inimical to seriousness, Sue Norton says, but formal titles do have their pedagogical merits

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The fate of best-laid plans: Ivor Gaber on high fees, elite casualties and the integrity of a sorely missed journalist

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With so little hard data about, the decision on taking more places out of the numbers cap is tough. It might all come down to cost

Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other’s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes

The THE World University Rankings do not signal a power shift, but rather show just how far Asia still has to go, Michael Cox argues

As a long career closes, Steven Schwartz is eager to discover what lies ahead

The UK's data-skills gap must be filled for the good of the social sciences and society at large, argues Ian Diamond

Bruce Macfarlane asks UK universities involved in the overseas gold rush: what price profit if you abandon your values?

As long as Ian Brady lives, he serves a useful function for society, argues Lisa Downing - as a convenient cultural repository for evil

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With the first cohort of £9K students settling in, there is still no clear idea about how cost is affecting numbers and teaching

First-rate vocational training is more essential than ever, says Sally Feldman

A visit by the Queen to Stirling four decades ago this week resulted in a fiasco that humiliated an administration, Richard Evans recalls