Opinion

Senior faculty are trying to prove their worth by making the lives of others so unpleasant that they agree to leave. It is time to call them out, says Aymen Idris

In the absence of domestic fee hikes and full-cost grants, world-class facilities will help maintain international student flows, says Ian Walmsley

T levels are an alternative to A levels, not to level 1-3 vocational courses. Students need both options, says Sam Parrett

No policy initiative within research-intensive universities can be sustainable without researchers perceiving clear added value, says Sari Lindblom

EDI claims should be treated with the same curiosity and scepticism as anything else in academic life, says Maximilian Werner

Incanting managerial buzzwords in response to a handful of free comments is not a strategy for improvement, says an anonymous academic

The lost golden age of hiring and wider social appreciation of the disciplines never existed, says Harvey Graff

States, which all need a well-trained workforce to thrive, must contribute more to reducing the cost of public higher education, says Nancy Zimpher

With the right policies in place, the university can repeat the past 25 years’ economic return within the next decade, says Anthony Freeling

The exascale machine referenced in the budget will be expensive, but the price of strategic missteps is higher, say Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield

Universities need guidance on providing voter registration opportunities and using work-study funds for civic engagement, says Mike Burns

Higher education leaders are often reluctant to enter the political realm, but now this prudence carries the stench of cowardice, says Michael Roth

Trying to forecast the future of higher education tends to leave heads spinning, but new analysis from the OECD’s data guru brings some trends into focus

Grading fills students with anxiety and academics with guilt. It is the enemy of real education. Time for a rebellion, says Andy Farnell

Telling precariously employed literature scholars to just hang in there doesn’t cut it in a job market as bad as today’s, says Chris Townsend

Belated moves to mitigate precarity are welcome but may come too late for one scholar exhausted by insecurity

Forcing teaching-focused academics to produce 3* research is like asking a world-class cricket bowler to focus on batting, says a research director

It would be extraordinary if the UK chose to switch to Plan B at the very moment the main obstacle to Plan A was being removed, says Joanna Burton

We need to find mechanisms to plug in relevant humanities and social sciences from the very beginning of projects, says Christina Boswell

Although some institutions spoke out during China's crackdown on the ‘white paper’ protests, others did not, notes Shaun O’Dwyer