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With student numbers falling as fees rise, drastic action is needed to widen participation, says Claire Callender

Scott Anthony takes issue with claims that Singapore’s leading universities have neglected local intellectual life

Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses

The stressful postgraduate environment often leads not to solidarity but to the impoverishment of research, says Alfredo Cumerma

Almost 2,350 academics from non-UK European countries have resigned from UK universities in the past year, and Layla Moran fears that could be just the tip of the iceberg

Unconditional offers harm A-level performance, but contextual offers do not – and they better target social mobility, says John Law

Matthew Reisz meets the scholars for whom one discipline is not enough

THE’s rankings editor Phil Baty sets out why the World University Rankings are here to stay – and why that's a good thing

Ongoing ministerial education reviews risk treating technical and academic education as separate pathways, says Quintin McKellar, and this could be to the detriment of both

Mary Visser asks if universities are delivering for people born in the late 1990s

Criticism of academic sisterhood survey gets to the crux of the matter that the resulting article will explore, says Holly Else

Thomas Curran looks at what lecturers can do to help when faced with students presenting perfectionistic tendencies

With students paying higher fees and expecting better facilities, UK universities must find sustainable ways to increase capital expenditure, says Philip Stephenson

Dorothy Bishop will not miss Jo Johnson, but is under no illusions that new minister Sam Gyimah will overturn any of his reforms

Hollie Chandler urges ministers not to underestimate the true contribution of international students to the UK

Sir Anthony Seldon explains why he was pleased to see Toby Young resign from the Office for Students, despite initially applauding the appointment  

Nick Hillman reflects on Jo Johnson's eventful two-and-a-half years as minister for universities and science 

Chris Parr looks at the issues that THE's Twitter followers think the new universities minister should be tackling

Ahead of our Asia Universities Summit, Sir Keith Burnett looks into the future for UK higher education and sees the growing importance of China 

There is no evidence that the REF process encourages academics to rush out more research of a lower quality, says Steven Hill

The MBA is no longer a qualification with ‘near mythical status’ offered by only a handful of elite academic institutions – so does it still have value? asks Fran Johnson

Universities have a big role to play in counteracting the nationalist sentiment emerging around the world, Amit Chakma says ahead of 2018 Asia Universities Summit

Phil Baty on how THE's annual reputation survey informs its World University Rankings

The appointment of Young to the OfS board is upsetting but unsurprising, says Lisa Mckenzie

Claire Taylor looks at how UK universities can rebuild trust

Simon Marginson looks ahead at what 2018 has in store for academia in the UK and further afield 

Martin Hamilton on four edtech trends to look out for over the next 12 months

UUK chief executive Alistair Jarvis outlines how he hopes the HE sector will work with the new OfS

An open access deal between German authors in journals published by Elsevier could be problematic, say Alex Holcombe and Björn Brembs

Jana Bacevic takes a look through the history books to assess how the government’s recent announcement on two-year degrees could pan out

Chris Parr runs through 11 of the best 2017 Christmas videos from university leaders

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam looks at restrictions to academic freedom in what he describes as an age of ‘psycho-nationalism’

Chris Parr reveals the 25 Times Higher Education stories that received the most views during the last 12 months

Got some last minute scholarly Christmas shopping to do? Glen Wright has got your back

Clare McGlynn is not surprised that the UK was overlooked as a focus country after a successful EU funding bid

It may be five years since Moocs went mainstream, but Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy believe they still have the potential to reach the hard-to-reach

The rapid increase in the number of unconditional offers being made to school-leavers is cause for concern, says Mike Nicholson

Group CEO of the Universities Superannuation Scheme Bill Galvin outlines the processes and procedures involved in the pension scheme valuation

Pay awards to vice-chancellors would not meet the requirements laid down in the Corporate Governance Code, says Stuart Farquhar

Without action, the UK might end up in the situation of funding both subscriptions and article-processing charges on an ongoing basis, writes Helen Blanchett

Mark Jones looks at what happens to the league tables if you isolate the World University Rankings’ teaching metrics

Longer courses could mean bigger loans, which would eat into the government’s trumpeted savings, says Nick Hillman

Rich Sullivan-Jones on why the National Audit Office looked into higher education, and what its report tells us about the HE ‘market’

Phil Baty asked his Twitter followers what they thought of government plans for two-year undergraduate degrees, and they did not hold back

Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review

John Gill on today’s NAO report, which claims that students are, in effect, victims of ‘mis-selling’ by higher education institutions

Although satisfaction and learning are not the same thing, universities need to be better at explaining the value that they bring, says Will Pooley

There are many hidden costs associated with PhD study, writes Alfredo Cumerma, particularly if you want to land that dream job on graduation

It has been a tough year for higher education, but we must not forget how universities transform their students’ life chances, says Maddalaine Ansell

Pam Tatlow looks at the ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’ of the v-c salary row, and finds some unfortunate trends

Gabriel Paquette calls on universities to meet 'aggressive' tax reforms with a 'forceful, evidence-informed response'

The government’s latest Brexit reassurances are just another punch in the face for EU scholars, writes Tanja Bueltmann

James Seymour says it is unfair to tar all private providers with the same brush following revelations of admissions fraud at one college

Wales will become the first system in Europe to offer equivalent maintenance support to full-time and part-time undergraduates, as well as postgraduates, explains Kirsty Williams  

Sally Hunt offers three ways to fix the proposed USS pension reforms

The government is working hard to secure the rights of the 33,000 academics from other EU countries who are working in the UK, says immigration minister Brandon Lewis

As Dame Glynis Breakwell announces her resignation from Bath, James Treadwell urges scholars to celebrate the real value in our universities

As a report suggests social mobility in the UK is getting worse, Chris Husbands outlines how Sheffield Hallam is attempting to tackle the problem

The Industrial White Paper is welcome, says Andy Westwood, but does it also represent an opportunity missed?

The UK needs its universities more than ever, and the government needs to realise their importance, says Sir Keith Burnett