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Many such journals are on government-approved lists and indexed in mainstream bibliographic databases, says Emanuel Kulczycki

Encouraging graduates into teaching would bring a ready-made army of advocates for university study into daily contact with pupils, says Jane White

ChatGPT must compel humanities scholars to rethink their acceptance of intellectual mediocrity and lax standards, says James Walker

Constant rejections for academic jobs took a bigger emotional toll than anything they encountered during their PhDs, says Michelle de Souza

T levels are an alternative to A levels, not to level 1-3 vocational courses. Students need both options, says Sam Parrett

No policy initiative within research-intensive universities can be sustainable without researchers perceiving clear added value, says Sari Lindblom

EDI claims should be treated with the same curiosity and scepticism as anything else in academic life, says Maximilian Werner

Incanting managerial buzzwords in response to a handful of free comments is not a strategy for improvement, says an anonymous academic

The lost golden age of hiring and wider social appreciation of the disciplines never existed, says Harvey Graff

States, which all need a well-trained workforce to thrive, must contribute more to reducing the cost of public higher education, says Nancy Zimpher

With the right policies in place, the university can repeat the past 25 years’ economic return within the next decade, says Anthony Freeling

The exascale machine referenced in the budget will be expensive, but the price of strategic missteps is higher, say Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield

Universities need guidance on providing voter registration opportunities and using work-study funds for civic engagement, says Mike Burns

Higher education leaders are often reluctant to enter the political realm, but now this prudence carries the stench of cowardice, says Michael Roth

It would be extraordinary if the UK chose to switch to Plan B at the very moment the main obstacle to Plan A was being removed, says Joanna Burton

We need to find mechanisms to plug in relevant humanities and social sciences from the very beginning of projects, says Christina Boswell

Although some institutions spoke out during China's crackdown on the ‘white paper’ protests, others did not, notes Shaun O’Dwyer

It makes no sense for the country’s new wave of medical schools to be permitted to cater only for overseas students, says Juliet Wright

Vice-chancellors must challenge populist ideas around who belongs to the nation and whether equity goals can end at its borders, says Srila Roy

The pan-continental alliances face many issues, but Erasmus took three decades to attain its present success, says Anthony Forster 

The regulator’s published approach to enforcement lacks basic safeguards around transparency, fairness and accountability, says Smita Jamdar 

Students often have no choice but to include professors who have had no input into papers as co-authors, says Roohola Ramezani

Why should any faculty member have to make a political statement to be given a grant or job, asks Samuel Abrams

Retrofitting traditional assessment methods with more accessible and inclusive overlays is not the right way to go, says Katie Stripe

Sustainability-linked loans allow universities to make savings for fulfilling climate targets. So why are they so rare in HE, asks Geoffrey McGinley

A consensus has emerged on changes that would make the second half of the multi-national programme even more successful, says Jan Palmowski

The honours system has too narrow a scope and too few grades. Why not embrace the Hear and the GCSE scale, asks Zahir Irani

We have a duty to teach the next generation of business leaders about inclusivity, sustainability and corporate responsibility, say Erika H. James and Ilian Mihov

Developed techniques to create virtual field trips are proving a boon to students’ education and morale, say Simon Hutchinson and Nataliia Popovych

Eerie AI simulations of academic writing show why student essays must return to their more imaginative and freewheeling roots, says Colm O’Shea

Intense feelings of academic inadequacy and alienation can drive first-in-family students to self-destructive behaviour and thoughts of dropping out, reflects Malik Johnson on his difficult journey from the Baltimore projects to an elite private college

In the week his sister should have graduated in Kabul as a doctor, PhD student Naimat Zafary describes the reality for Afghan women denied their degrees

A digitised form of America’s famous admissions exam will help level the playing field for university applicants across the world, says Cezar Wazen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education helps a person escape poverty. It doesn’t directly, in the short run, combat poverty. That requires a wider coalition, says Jonathan Gyurko

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