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The police-catch-punish approach neglects to address plagiarists¡¯ misunderstanding of what higher education is all about, says Sioux McKenna

Greater efforts need to be made to distinguish predatory journals from those that at least aspire to scholarly standards, says Harvey Graff

If government sets clear ambitions, innovation follows from the private sector and charities ¨C not the other way round, says Ian Walker

In Hong Kong, as elsewhere, managers should support faculty and students to engage in inquiry whatever their personal values, says Carsten Holz

The findings of the UniSAFE survey about the extent of gender-based violence at European universities are troubling, says Susan Sorenson

If the sector is to tackle the existential threats facing the world, it must rediscover its practical idealism about itself, says Nigel Thrift

Universities should not be obliged to support speech that restricts another¡¯s right to speech or academic freedom, say James Murray and Alice Sullivan

Students at higher-ranked liberal arts colleges report strong relationships with their instructors ¨C but rural institutions languish, says Samuel Abrams

The mature student specialist¡¯s renowned politics department could become part of the solution rather than the problem, says Matthew Flinders

The LLE is a useful first step towards a radical reform of the country¡¯s narrow and inflexible higher education system, says Martin Rees 

Fine words in support of academic freedom are welcome, but deeds are also required, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

The new prime minister¡¯s orthodoxy will prevent a repeat of the Iron Lady¡¯s raid on the science and higher education budgets, says Terence Kealey

This year¡¯s Maddox Prize winner shows how community-led research can help communities escape polarised debates over scientific evidence

It is not enough to argue that higher education¡¯s primary relationship with the students is not labour-related, say Jeffrey Stankunas and Emily Dilloway

Higher education must meet students where they are and find a way to connect anyone with an education if they are willing to work, says Aaron Basko

Scholarship that does not acknowledge the legitimacy of alternative views is inimical to knowledge generation, says Katy Barnett

Boosting innovation and supporting democracy requires a global, comprehensive approach, says Jan Palmowski

Amid growing anti-immigration sentiment, US universities should make greater efforts to export their expertise to where the demand is, says Richard Joseph

Although available information on USS finances is patchy, scope appears to remains for restored benefits or reduced contributions, says Michael Bromwich

Suella Braverman¡¯s threats to ¡®significantly reduce¡¯ international student numbers are a direct threat to growth, says Keith Burnett 

The sector needs to foster a better collective sense of the pressures and possibilities of running a university, say Doug Parkin and Richard Watermeyer

As Sir Colin Campbell knew, an overseas footprint offers the long-term returns that universities are established for, say Christine Ennew and David Greenaway

Relying on overseas expertise is foolish for a country that abounds with specific economic issues, says Jagjit Chadha

Making appropriate decisions is difficult for students when information is scarce and inaccurate, say Kaibalyapati Mishra and Krishna Raj 

We must examine how our measures of merit are impacted by culture, context, place and hierarchy, says Cheryl de la Rey

New York University¡¯s multiple sites around the world were instrumental in minimising Covid-related disruption, says Andrew Hamilton

Scholars need to address how the legacy of Russian writers and artists is taught to students and the public, says Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

A recent email by a UK vice-chancellor is a case study in how not to inspire people to go beyond the call of duty, say two management scholars

Scholars from the Global South have vastly fewer international options than those from the Global North, says Srila Roy

Universities must refocus on the basics of reading, writing and numeracy across subjects and fields, says Harvey Graff

The standardised test is graduate schools¡¯ ideal measurement tool for the personality traits they seek in applicants, says John Gomez

Opening up cutting-edge facilities to both students and wider communities can help close 21st-century skills gaps, says Sara Prowse

Writing off student debt can encourage people to complete their degrees and work in the sectors they have trained for, says Danny Bielik

The cost-of-living crisis is bringing to a head the inadequacy of current funding and support for doctoral students, says Ellie Munro

Covid-19 illustrated how universities are not always good at taking responsibility for the practicalities of their policy statements, says Zahir Irani 

Careful thought is required before Western art music is condemned and cast out, says James Olsen

Research support must be realistic, the cost of educating UK students must be properly met, and overseas students remain welcome, says Ian Walmsley

Acknowledging such students¡¯ difficult personal circumstances is an important first step to improving their graduation rates, says Ozalle Toms

It is no accident that universities are prominent in protests over ties to the slave trade and movements to decolonise education, says Joanna Newman

The inequalities exacerbated by global capitalism must be challenged by institutions in the service of citizens rather than corporations, says Carl Rhodes

A large survey of students suggests that even Democrats are afraid to air their views on certain subjects. This isn¡¯t healthy, says Samuel Abrams

Northumbria University¡¯s transformation, reflected in its QR allocation, will allow it to do more for its students and its region, says Louise Bracken

Traditional metrics neglect the systematic barriers faced by individuals with various oppressed axes of identity, says Shan-Jan Sarah Liu

Universities were not prominent in Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address, but it left plenty of room for them to thrive, says Jan Palmowski

Supporting young researchers to peer-review and edit journal submissions will also accelerate their training, says Quan-Hoang Vuong

Shaking off impostor syndrome can be tough for isolated academics who pursue niche areas of study where grant funding opportunities are limited, says Rachael Hains-Wesson

Academics¡¯ passion for research should feed into the ideal higher education experience, says Gill Evans

The new UK PM¡¯s team needs to maintain access for the hardest-to-reach, fulfil research spending promises and continue levelling up, says Laura Brassington

Proactively pushing a more positive, focused agenda around quality and value will win more public and political support, says Vivienne Stern

Creative partnerships between institutions can contribute to NHS training needs, research excellence and regional levelling up, say Brian Webster-Henderson and Martin Lupton

Universities must agree on sector-wide expectations and support for the growing number teaching-focused academics, says Christine Cassar

Reliance on student reviews of university teaching has led to a warped understanding of quality, says Sally Patfield

Students should be encouraged to tackle books, ideas or ways of thinking they may find distressing or offensive ¨C but offering emotional support is important too, says Sussex¡¯s new vice-chancellor, Sasha Roseneil

From admissions to outreach and student data collection, the undergraduate journey must be reviewed to narrow unacceptable social and educational inequalities, say Kim Hunter Reed and Ray Belton

Enormous efforts to increase links between research fields have failed to consider how undergraduates can also benefit and contribute, says Stephanie Marshall

The latest A-level data show concerning long-term trends in the popularity of humanities subjects, says Julia Black

Let¡¯s not deprive our students of access to the full range of human experience in the name of protecting them, says Amna Khalid

The regulations can be ambiguous, but the masturbation paper furore is a result of supervisors¡¯ and reviewers¡¯ lack of vigilance, says Michelle Shipworth

The pandemic forced universities to rethink their digital strategies but bolder strategies for IT training and investment are still required, says Liz Bacon

Closing down branch campuses in countries with questionable human rights practices, or restricting student intakes from these nations, would be a grave mistake, says Bashir Makhoul