Opinion

Students will now believe they can shut down debate of issues they find uncomfortable, rather than engaging critically, says a queer scholar

South Korea is among the US’ top three contributors of international students. Falling purchasing power threatens that position, says Kyuseok Kim

The complexities of the 21st century and Japan’s demographic decline demand more interdisciplinarity and internationalisation, says Teruo Fujii

The executive cadre clearly didn’t see the crises around revenue, leadership and public standing coming, say Hamish Coates and Leo Goedegebuure

To maintain the graduate premium, universities must anticipate skills needs, guide good course choices and be open to everyone, says Shitij Kapur

The new administration will marginalise or even prohibit the kind of inclusive, challenging, non-traditional syllabus I taught, fears Glyn Robbins

Why harm high-quality provision at established universities because of a small number of providers with questionable motives, asks Mark Clark

Policy institutes’ lack of strategic variation risks overheating the competition for airtime with national policymakers, says Diana Beech

Scaled and standardised, lowering entry requirements for disadvantaged applicants can contribute to a fairer society, says Jon Datta

The scientific record should reflect what actually happened, not a sanitised narrative that leaves out the messy bits, say Ivan Oransky and David B. Allison

Local context is important in overhauling trustee recruitment – and payment may help, says Nikki Le Faou 

Better tech alignment, industry guidance and identity verification would all help – as would meaningful and visible punishments, says Kim Eggleton

Tec de Monterrey’s partnership with Boston’s Ragon Institute shows how Latin America can connect to global centres of excellence, says David Garza-Salazar

Last summer’s Southport riots brought home the importance of fostering mutual understanding in neighbouring communities, says Duncan Ivison

The all-consuming nature of their work means that academics risk a loss of connection and even identity when their careers end, says John Tregoning

Claims that efforts are tokenistic must be countered with bold actions to retain buy-in, make progress and maintain momentum, says Cat Davies

The celebrated campus novelist and former University of Birmingham literature professor has died. Christopher Bigsby recounts the life of ‘a serious man who wrote comic novels’

By working together, England’s FE colleges and universities can create a seamless skills pipeline that benefits everyone, says David Warnes

As more of the research process is exposed, the readiness and resources of researchers and their institutions must be considered, says Tim Errington

No one transitions overnight from a full-time academic career to a much more self-determined and lightly specified routine, says Harvey Graff

Technology can offer a very useful helping hand, but there are an array of pitfalls that need careful handling, says John Miles

Disciplinary nuance and optimum word usage are likely to remain beyond chatbots trained on the imperfect existing corpus, says Brian Bloch

Security guards’ jobs would be easier if others also had the knowledge and equipment to respond to medical incidents, says George Bass

Academics are only revealing their own biases if they believe the television presenter’s behaviour represents working-class values, says Joe Baden

Drawn-out complaints procedures that aren’t resolved before visas expire are unethical – and a poor advertisement for UK HE, says Sanaz Raji 

Our evidence-led recommendations will challenge universities – but within the parameters of the possible, says Nigel Carrington

Social scientists must work hard to verify their conclusions. Too many that do not are rewarded anyway, says Martyn Hammersley

We can’t just concede that usage is ethical if within universities’ narrowly conceived rules. What about the pursuit of truth, asks Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin

There are plenty of global examples of how academic expertise could be better applied to companies’ real-life skills deficits, says Sarah Gordon

A columnist has dared to voice the blasphemy that spending huge sums on higher education doesn’t always open new doors, writes Pushkar