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Kevin Fong is forced to come to terms with electronic isolation

Alan Ryan fears for the deserving if US-style admissions make it to the UK

US cuts and ‘impact’ demands recall the UK’s, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Malcolm Gillies on the benefits of collaboration in the wake of VAT reform

Athene Donald warns referees about the unintended and potentially career-damaging effects of using certain words to describe women

Students are suffering from survey fatigue - as are we all, says Sally Feldman

Like capitalism, science has flaws, but it’s the best we’ve got, says Kevin Fong

Alan Ryan on how California’s famed system might work in the UK

Felipe Fernández-Armesto finds little joy in Christmas hymns and carols

Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies

As a cancer survivor, Sally Feldman has been a research object and participant

The best careers advice? Follow your enthusiasms, says Kevin Fong

Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is bewitched by the methods of an Arkansas teacher

Social scientists and scientists will serve the public best by working together to present their findings, Alice Bell argues

Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies

Sally Feldman takes umbrage with those who decry student orientation week

Harry Potter a metaphor for higher education? Kevin Fong explains - almost

Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation

US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?

Even recalcitrant scholars can’t escape the mobile’s reach, says Sally Feldman

Degree ceremonies have become shameless branding exercises in which graduates are mere afterthoughts, laments Susan Bassnett

We need role models that encourage girls to study science, says Athene Donald

It takes more than 140 characters to raise a mob, says Kevin Fong

Is the Times Higher Education ‘exam howlers’ competition a bit of harmless fun, or unfair and offensive? Katie Alcock believes the joke is on teachers as well as their students and no one is any the worse for it, but Alice Bell finds little to smile about

Cutting-edge researchers aren’t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan

Education’s true aims comprise a very short list, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

We must listen to the Continent’s sounds and sweet airs, says Malcolm Gillies

A loud voice alone is not enough to merit a hearing, says Steven Schwartz

Sally Feldman hails the e-book’s rise - but many won’t abandon the paper trail

Graduate-entry medicine should be spared the fees fallout, argues Kevin Fong

Alan Ryan considers whether traditional university education has run its race

We all lose when scholars forfeit copyright, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Malcolm Gillies on how percentages can both reveal and obscure truths

The real work and worth of the academy can’t be described by ‘business performance’ metrics and management-speak, argues Tim May

Even in the web age, academic get-togethers remain relevant, says Alice Bell

Writing course materials for Goldsmiths was a young Gabriel Egan’s first scholarly work. Two decades later, they’re part of a ‘superstar’ institution’s offerings

In a climate of higher fees and rising unemployment, student litigation is likely to increase. Adam Brett offers his evaluation of what universities must do to stay out of court

Yes, says Sally Feldman, of Tracey Emin's display of her own menstrual fluids

Education is never wasted, no matter what business leaders say, argues Tara Brabazon

Kevin Fong gives the revision lecture that his students need but don’t want

Citation indices are poor and distorting proxies for research quality - they should get the boot, argues Thomas Docherty

Alan Ryan on an American battle that deserves the UK’s attention

In a technological environment built on planned obsolescence, history matters, argues Tara Brabazon

Felipe Fernández-Armesto can’t wait to flee the madness infecting the UK

Malcolm Gillies discusses the fees revolution’s mean, median and mode

The royal wedding demanded a topsy-turvy carnival of sex and symbolic slaughter, says Camilla Power, but trying to exercise a human right to ritual participation landed her in jail

David Willetts, advocate for the arts? Nothing like it, accuses Sally Feldman

Tim Birkhead finds a valuable lesson in the story of the bullfinch trainers

The obsession with contact hours is a result of the market logic that threatens to undermine the academy, argues Thomas Docherty

…and when it comes to £9,000 fees, you ought to lie in it, argues Kevin Fong

External examiner James Derounian seeks respect and fair remuneration for the bastions of the appraisal system

Alan Ryan wonders why women still appear to be losing out in academia

Offa’s access agreements will not work, argues Thomas Docherty, although two principles should be kept in any alternative system

Felipe Fernández-Armesto fears for the future of a leading comprehensive