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The interim report¡¯s focus on engagement with Australian communities risks overlooking obligations to the rest of the world, says Craig Jeffrey

Working together to tackle specific teaching and research needs could seed high-quality research institutes, say Diya Dutt and Sudarshan Saha

Employers might find it easier to reach agreement with a less politically skewed membership body, says an anonymous academic 

It is proving difficult to accommodate even the fraction of South Sudanese students who have already made it back home, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Perhaps the EU could give additional assurances that it would apply corrections if the UK won significantly less funding than it put in, suggests Jan Palmowski

International students contribute nearly ?12 billion a year to the government¡¯s priority areas for levelling up, says James Pitman 

Former Oxford v-c Louise Richardson is wrong to dismiss the need for a free speech tsar in a massified system, says Ian Pace 

The government would do much better to help educational institutions understand and prepare for future labour market shifts, says Rosalind Gill

Such talk replaces pride of place with ¡®know your place¡¯. But if you want to see levelling up made flesh, come and meet our graduates, says John Raftery 

The unravelling of internationalisation and academic freedom is likely to come with a repurposing of research to military ends, says Maria Yudkevich

Improving benefits and lowering contributions must not mitigate against the pension scheme¡¯s ability to better ride out future storms, says Kate Barker

I want my research to fuel change and make a positive impact on the world, and I do not want to suffer in the process, says Heidi Green

Race-based admissions may be banned, but legacy students and those from elite schools still enjoy huge, unfair advantages, says Aman Majmudar

The biggest step backwards over the last 50 years was supporters¡¯ retreat from equal opportunity to a focus on ill-defined ¡®diversity¡¯, says Harvey Graff

Use of the CSAT is likely to increase US enrolment of South Koreans but could bode ill for some of the latter¡¯s domestic institutions, says Kyuseok Kim

Commitments to flip individual journals have not proved to be the game changer that Springer Nature had hoped, says Steven Inchcoombe

The ban on race-conscious admissions does not override the need to monitor progress in equity and social mobility, says W. Carson Byrd

Subsidising domestic with international provision would not be tolerated in healthcare. How long before it unravels in HE, asks Mark Corver

When faced with a real, full-bore crisis, this generation of supposed snowflakes just got on with it and coped better than I did, says Joe Moran

Based solely on a Turnitin report, Emily was condemned for using ChatGPT to write her essay. Except that she hadn¡¯t, writes Daniel Sokol

Ambitions to boost institutional profiles will fail unless academics are motivated, trained and rewarded to take the initiative, says Sheldon Jacobson

Doctoral students drive Iranian science, but the country¡¯s low spending means that they often lack access to basic resources, says Roohola Ramezani 

It isn¡¯t perfect, but data and analytics could capture the disadvantages applicants face and the diversity they may represent, says Carlo Ratti

The new REF rules allow greater scope to aim for the (four) stars. But who will embrace the risk of crashing to Earth, asks Matthew Flinders

Scientists and technologists must participate in a genuinely collective project to regulate technological development, says Nicholas Dirks

Collective effort can combat misinformation, respond to climate change and harness the power of AI for the good of mankind, says Rocky Tuan

Reaction to the new rules has been mixed, but they promise to fix the toxic aspects of research culture, says Cat Davies

Challenges for practice research reflect broader issues around knowledge production and academic hierarchies, say Bill Balaskas and Katia Chornik

Graduates who can make connections across time and disciplines would be more stimulated, in both the workplace and wider life, says Harvey Graff

Researchers can help policymakers get to grips with what is and isn¡¯t possible in areas such as hydrogen fuel production, says Tracey Brown

STEM subjects are important, too, but the creative economy employs more young people than any other sector, says Stuart Croft

If passable essays can be generated in seconds, should educators refocus on originality and style ¨C or reframe assessment entirely, asks Andrew Moore

The political will is there, but doubts remain about whether supply and demand will follow suit, say Peter Wolstencroft and Elizabeth Whitfield

Displaced people need better study options, including in the locations where they are based, say Gentille Dusenge, Jackson Byiringiro, and Isaac Ayuen

Infrastructure might be repaired, but the loss of historical artefacts and Sudan¡¯s reputation for safety are irreparable, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok  

Funders and administrators regularly praise the benefits of cross-departmental research, yet damaging schisms remain, says Jonathan Goodman

International collaboration on tackling global problems has never been more important, say Chris Husbands and John Dewar 

Carrying out this increasingly herculean task effectively is beyond most universities¡¯ capacity. The burden should be shared, says David Hardstaff

It is widely accepted that Indian curricula need to become more relevant. Links with the business community are key, says Amarjit Singh

Tracking doctoral alumni in other sectors would inform departments about what their specific training allows graduates to do, says Patrick Walsh

So far, Russianists have been strangely resistant to confronting imperialistic, Russocentric narratives, says Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Our report suggests the discipline is struggling in the UK amid low funding and methodological clashes, say four academics

The route will ease the staffing crisis by widening access, but apprentices will have to pass the same professional exams as everyone else, says Nichola Hay

Ministers¡¯ metric-based boasts about the country¡¯s scientific prowess are belied by the reality, as a recent incident illustrates, says Roohola Ramezani

Outrage at cases of falsely claimed Native identities is fuelled by the conflation of positionality with academic merit, says Jonathan Zimmerman

With a UK general election potentially less than a year away, there is no better time for academics to influence political thinking, says ex-MP Natascha Engel

Parents have been misled by UK universities about the support available to students, and Parliament must intervene, says Lee Fryatt

The University and College Union has empowered a militant minority to push through divisive policies that will alienate its membership, says Julia Bell

Aligning Kurdistan¡¯s higher education system with European norms has given hope to Iraq¡¯s students, but international help is still needed, say Aram Mohamad Qadir and Amanj Saeed

Historically black colleges offer a useful blueprint on how academic administrators can support progressive change, says John Silvanus Wilson Jr

With just 50 sub-Saharan journals listed in Scopus, it¡¯s time to consider how citation indexes are holding back scholarly publishing in Africa, argue David Mills and Natasha Robinson

Having discussed the gender critical philosopher¡¯s work with students, it¡¯s hard to accept her gloomy assessment of silenced people, says Tony Lang

Strong financial health at sector level conceals wide institutional variation. If growth is choked off, whole universities could fail, says James Brackley

Universities are places where ideas are proposed and improved. It shouldn¡¯t be so hard to discuss an issue with far-reaching implications, say 20 academics

While other nations are reaching saturation point, the US has the scope to derive greater benefit from international education, says Allan Goodman

International students spend billions in the UK and the vast majority return home. So why do anti-immigration measures target them, asks Ben Moore

Reaching out to a trusted community reminded Karen Spierling why she values academia enough to defend it in the public arena

Tackling racism within institutions is a crucial first step, says Nick Braisby, three years on from a murder that shook the world 

The banning of scientific messages about risks in pregnancy is yet another damaging imposition on academia, says Roohola Ramezani

Even journals that have removed paywalls retain their bias towards certain types of author ¨C and their prejudice against others, says Katie Stripe