Opinion

The rapid shift to online learning could threaten the survival of some institutions, but others could build on it to introduce teaching innovations, says Ana Fanelli

Pathological corporate branding is detrimental to the very image universities want to portray to students, says Philip Moriarty

Understanding students’ individual needs and concerns during this pandemic will go a long way to helping them progress academically, says Cathy Sandeen

There are simple ways that the publishing process can be made easier for academics with educational needs, says one early career researcher 

Institutions and scholars must serve society, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile was more than willing to join efforts to tackle the country’s coronavirus outbreak, says Pedro Bouchon

Now is the time for universities to interrogate the inequities of traditional classroom settings to ensure they aren’t repeated online, says Jessica Rowland Williams 

Anthony Seldon reflects on his time leading the University of Buckingham as he prepares to step down 

Self-congratulatory messages about online teaching may belie failures to meet learning outcomes, warns Nabil Ghantous

Declarations of solidarity lay bare the feudalistic mentality of even the most radical leftist scholars, who speak for the beleaguered masses from the cover of their academic nobility, says Scott Thomas Gibson

Volatility has become part of university managers’ new normal, but the effort won’t quickly become wasted, says David LeFevre

Cross-border knowledge sharing is core to higher education and must be preserved, say 33 university leaders in a joint statement on global academic mobility 

There’s no evidence that lower fees will lead to more enrolments, and employability for ‘work relevant’ degrees is low, says Gavin Moodie

The challenges of the future won’t respect disciplinary boundaries, so why would we teach and research within them? asks Tan Eng Chye

The government and universities are not doing enough to protect their students from the effects of the lockdown, says Futao Huang

They have an obligation to engage in diversity education because it is the flip side of the intercultural work in which they are experts, say Harvey Charles and Darla Deardoff 

Challenging students to collaborate on course content will help them learn better and develop essential skills, say Cathy Davidson and Christina Katopodis

In the wake of the George Floyd killing, institutions should prioritise health and well-being over armed enforcement, says Michael Sierra-Arévalo

But auditing such efforts will be difficult, while unintended consequences are always a risk, warns Athene Donald

There are benefits to running a young institution like the University of Duisburg-Essen, says Ulrich Radtke 

We will need wisdom and common purpose to update multiple layers of norms, says Jinghai Li

The Sydney university’s roots in the aftermath of the Second World War means the institution is used to being practical, inclusive and unwilling to compromise on standards, says Ian Jacobs

Selling income-contingent stakes in the future earnings of graduates is the best way to address the student debt crisis, says Paul Oslington

International research and community service are not mutually exclusive, and young universities can easily and productively combine both missions from the outset, says Yaroslav Kuzminov

Doctoral graduates’ occupation of Higher Education Ministry will do little by itself to solve a structural problem, says Kenneth Nsah