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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

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

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

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

Denying that people have the potential to succeed before offering them any training contradicts what education is all about, says Elisa Stephens

Quitting Twitter lost Christopher Schaberg some connections. But the pleasures of in-person interaction far outweigh the regrets

We need to prepare students to thrive in a world where they use AI but are not dependent on it, says Mike Groves

There must be full transparency over the costs and benefits of a merged Adelaide University, says Binoy Kampmark 

Civility works well as a campus norm, and lawful rights must be protected, but ¡®respect¡¯ mandates are misguided, says Geoff Sharrock

Massification, metrics and consumerism have eroded what was distinctive about UK higher education, says Philip Langton

Sector-wide guidelines on sharing and discussing research online would also be very useful, says Laura Hassink 

But institutions will contribute much more to both their localities and their planet if they collaborate more, says Simone Buitendijk

If the government is set on cutting international students, charging domestic students above the current ceiling is the only option, says Peter Ainsworth

The country¡¯s cultural deference to authority means students lack the courage and the motivation to challenge current thinking, says Aus Abdulwahhab

Institutions¡¯ marketing approach should be to inform would-be students about the full range of degrees on offer, says Pat Moores

Saying that you stand with Ukraine while glossing over the situation in Hong Kong is untenable, says Phil Chan

Cutting-edge polling techniques can help universities genuinely canvass local needs, rather than assuming them, says Polly Curtis

Leaders should model thoughtful, respectful disagreement and bridge divisions in ideologies, say Teresa Valerio Parrot and Ali Lincoln

Overloaded slides, peculiar body language and speech that is too quick, slow, quiet or relentless are all easily fixed, says Brian Bloch

German-style political stability and long-term science funding could help mitigate the damage, say Zach Meyers and John Springford

More hardship funding, bigger maintenance loans and restored grants would all complement universities¡¯ efforts, says Sarah Stevens

The department¡¯s threat to ban international students from all but the top UK universities is totally counterproductive, says Nick Hillman

The need to rearrange academic units and, potentially, cut staff is the direct result of UK government policy, say David Latchman and Matthew Innes

Building a publishing platform that allows scholars to earn from sales of their papers has put all Pooja Sawrikar¡¯s rage to good use