Opinion

ATEC must work to ensure that under-represented groups aren’t cut adrift from the knowledge economy just as it moves up a gear, says Shamit Saggar

As universities in both the UK and Australia fight to protect vital international recruitment, there is also a need for fresh thinking for future prosperity

Embracing multiple measures of career ‘success’ can move us beyond tiresome debates and put students’ needs first, says Tom Coward

Our responsibility is to keep everyone safe and avoid the situation escalating into aggravated trespass or threats of violence, says George Bass

Those of us who stay on post-study give far more to our adopted country than we have been able to give to our home nations, says Elena Rodriguez-Falcon

Identity politics’ 1960s progenitors had a level of nuance and erudition that today’s EDI activists would do well to emulate, says Martin Levy

The troubled excellence initiative has approved only one new institution since 2020. Has the government lost interest, asks an observer

Whether targets of sexualised attention or audience members, students lack power to divert harmful classroom dynamics, says Mary Peterson

Who wants to be heckled in their workplace by people who think they are entitled to define the parameters of your faith for you, asks Joseph Mintz

The Edinburgh protests underline the need for meaningful ways for students, staff and community to govern the university together, says Kevin Donovan

Students already graduate with huge debts. Rather than accepting yet more easy credit, they should do more paid work, says Paul Wiltshire

Universities are crying out for consistency, something resembling certainty and a plan for the way forward, says Graham Galbraith

Listening to students and engaging activist donors in university affairs in more constructive ways would both help, says Richard Joseph

Despite claims of political appointments, no party seems to want to make interference in universities an election issue, says Mukhtar Ahmad

The likes of Google are being undermined by both AI and their own commercial imperatives. Researchers can no longer rely on them, says Andy Farnell

Western business practice is not universal, so why are studies from elsewhere so rare in the literature, asks Yuliya Snihur  

Intimidation of longstanding civic institutions belies a traditional conservative emphasis on small government and free speech, says Andrew Seligsohn

International student fees are propping up UK universities, but with immigration a key electoral battleground politicians seem not to care

Staff fear not only for their own research time but also for students’ long-term retention of information, says a De Montfort academic

Critics’ claim that research on British policy in Northern Ireland will be influenced by ministers is incorrect, says Ian McBride

The final report’s scant recommendations and mooted interventions are uninspiring, unhelpful and, at times, alarming, says Michael Wesley