Opinion

While corporations and universities bowed to pressure to ban controversial BBC documentary, students showed freedom of speech and critical enquiry still matter in India, says Mukhtar Ahmad

AI-written essays have exposed the unambitious and unoriginal thinking that universities require from undergraduates, says James Warren

The UK prime minister has invested political capital in science and innovation. It is vital that it is not wasted on ill-considered populist ideas about research

Hopes that a new regulator would bring light-touch, proportionate regulation in England have been dashed, says Iain Mansfield

Ron DeSantis’ appointment of political operators as trustees risks compromising universities’ pursuit of the truth, says Richard Joseph 

Students want to understand the complexities of their own relationships, and the philosophy of love has set its heart on doing so, says Luke Brunning

Limiting international student numbers or cutting post-study work eligibility is not the way to become a science superpower, says Max Lu

Despite policy pushes, joint degrees remain a regulatory maze. The new European Degree might be the solution, says Kurt Willems

Spread among more than 100 institutions, an extra £50 million for hardship funds is a drop in the ocean, says Karen Cox

Obliging everyone to undertake post-publication review would aid discoverability in a world without traditional journals, says Robert de Vries

More support and less complex regulation will allow the hybrid qualifications to flourish across more English institutions and sectors, says Dan Lally

The ‘sector’ may be able to afford more than the current offer, but many individual universities cannot, says Peter Sloane

Evidence suggests that honesty pledges make cheating less pronounced than it otherwise would be, say Thomas Gift and Julie Norman

Better alignment of pay and benefits, working cultures and expectations will clear the way for research to have impact, say nine Future Leaders fellows

Rishi Sunak's plan for mathematics to age 18 would come too late to save many university departments, says Ulrike Tillmann

Overheated buildings, meat-heavy menus and solar-panel-free roofs are not a good example, say Karin Bodewits and Philipp Gramlich

It is excessive to demand the resignation of a US college leader who badly misjudged a student complaint about offence, says Jonathan Zimmerman

As institutions embedded within cities and regions, universities can be the catalysts for local action to address national and global problems

Low-key bridge-building exercises can initiate relationships with civil servants, parliamentary clerks and regulatory officials, says Matthew Flinders

Academics must learn about the policymaking landscape and identify the key people to build relationships with, says Natascha Engel

Not all women face the same barriers. Universities need to create structures that support them as whole people, says Natalia Kucirkova

It is compromising to instruct business students on the best ways of doing things but not to experience them in situ, says a lecturer and former CEO

Cutting off a £26 billion UK success story at the knees would be self-inflicted economic vandalism, says Tim Bradshaw

Education has been incorporating and reimagining the threats and possibilities of tech for decades. AI will be no different, says Paul Breen

Tackling global warming needs a radical shift in business management. Graduates must force it on their employers, says Oliver Laasch

Rather than attempting to block resolutions, university leaders should focus on creating people-first cultures, says Hanfu Mi 

Amid growing global interest, policy must be driven by evidence, rather than knee-jerk reactions to loud voices, says Raheel Nawaz

Many sources of scrutiny already exist, but the idea of a perfect research project is an unattainable fantasy, says Andrew Barnas

The government must invest significantly in a national infrastructure to develop more effective interventions, say Antony Moss and Deborah Johnston

Inclusivity would be boosted if the Erasmus replacement offered funding more promptly and flexibly, say Richard Davies and Andrew Griff-Owen

As enrolment expansion far outstrips campus housing capacity, universities must take more responsibility for local neighbourhoods, says Harvey Graff

Casual encounters are a chance to correct the public's irritating assumption that political science is all about elections, says Christopher Hallenbrook

A lack of financial incentives, on top of academic freedom concerns, is likely to put off many overseas institutions, says Saikat Majumdar 

OpenAI’s chatbot has wowed the world by producing astonishingly well-formed written responses to questions. Is it about to turn academia upside down?

Delivery of educational material chunked at the optimal grade for retention by passive student-consumers is ripe for automation, says Andy Farnell

Divisive discrimination in favour of an Americanised, catch-all category that favours some cultures over others is not what UK HE needs, says Aymen Idris

The idea of academic leadership has been largely reduced to management. But alternative HE visions are still being produced, says Ronald Barnett

Reports of a 13 per cent rise in registration fees is unjustifiable in the current economic environment, says Stephen Marston

The Armenian government’s aborted attempt to amalgamate three universities has left a bad taste, says Karine Harutyunyan

Ever more expensive boilerplate qualifications that may or may not connote genuine expertise are not what the world needs, says Valerie Sartor

At best, a revitalised business education can help make tomorrow’s business leaders less destructive than their predecessors, says Carl Rhodes

Restrictions are partly due to a stilted academic culture in which criticism is uncomfortable, says Roohola Ramezani

A new ‘accord’ is promised, but hopes under previous Labor governments have sometimes been dashed, says Greg McCarthy

Identifying deception often requires analysis of patterns across large collections of articles. Publishers must work together, says David McDade

With much still unclear, complaints procedures are likely to be lengthy and fraught with contention, says Gill Evans

The divestment movement can claim victory. But what about all the companies that enable fossil fuel exploitation, asks Zak Coleman

Jo Grady’s more gradualist approach to industrial action offers better prospects for success, say Jak Peake and Adam Ozanne

After a tumultuous 2022, what will the new year bring for higher education? Some of the UK sector’s respected crystal-ball gazers offer their predictions for 2023

If those on both the Left and Right fail to examine basic assumptions, knowledge advancement is impaired, says Martyn Hammersley 

Working in the academy reminds Duncan Money of his brief time on a market stall. Time to swap it for a stable job that pays the bills

Students aiming for a Russell Group university were set up to fail by a pathways college – but then passed anyway, says Donald Short

Central government representatives are increasingly rejecting candidates selected by political foes in state governments, says Mukhtar Ahmad

Liberal arts programmes should be revamped and rebranded to emphasise the competencies they provide graduates entering the workplace, says Costas Spirou

Helping students create climate-conscious start-ups would enhance campus learning and universities’ green credentials, says Robert Phillips

Expanding the blended or online learning currently on offer will not be enough to achieve reskilling agenda, says Betty Vandenbosch

The emergence of ChatGPT underlines that keeping the status quo may be the beginning of the end for legal education, warns Mimi Zou

It’s been a bleak year as war brought more pain to a world still shaken by the pandemic and other pressures. Universities will be glad to put it behind them

Some research presentations by practitioners are more akin to sales pitches than free enquiry, says Ian Pace

Young people face one of the most challenging periods for coming of age in history. Academics should do all they can to help them, says Harvey Graff

Iranian academia was previously going through a phase of chronic depression in terms of socio-political activism, says Roohola Ramezani