Opinion

Cutting off a £26 billion UK success story at the knees would be self-inflicted economic vandalism, says Tim Bradshaw

Education has been incorporating and reimagining the threats and possibilities of tech for decades. AI will be no different, says Paul Breen

Tackling global warming needs a radical shift in business management. Graduates must force it on their employers, says Oliver Laasch

Rather than attempting to block resolutions, university leaders should focus on creating people-first cultures, says Hanfu Mi 

Amid growing global interest, policy must be driven by evidence, rather than knee-jerk reactions to loud voices, says Raheel Nawaz

Many sources of scrutiny already exist, but the idea of a perfect research project is an unattainable fantasy, says Andrew Barnas

The government must invest significantly in a national infrastructure to develop more effective interventions, say Antony Moss and Deborah Johnston

Inclusivity would be boosted if the Erasmus replacement offered funding more promptly and flexibly, say Richard Davies and Andrew Griff-Owen

As enrolment expansion far outstrips campus housing capacity, universities must take more responsibility for local neighbourhoods, says Harvey Graff

Casual encounters are a chance to correct the public's irritating assumption that political science is all about elections, says Christopher Hallenbrook

A lack of financial incentives, on top of academic freedom concerns, is likely to put off many overseas institutions, says Saikat Majumdar 

OpenAI’s chatbot has wowed the world by producing astonishingly well-formed written responses to questions. Is it about to turn academia upside down?

Delivery of educational material chunked at the optimal grade for retention by passive student-consumers is ripe for automation, says Andy Farnell

Divisive discrimination in favour of an Americanised, catch-all category that favours some cultures over others is not what UK HE needs, says Aymen Idris

The idea of academic leadership has been largely reduced to management. But alternative HE visions are still being produced, says Ronald Barnett

Reports of a 13 per cent rise in registration fees is unjustifiable in the current economic environment, says Stephen Marston

The Armenian government’s aborted attempt to amalgamate three universities has left a bad taste, says Karine Harutyunyan

Ever more expensive boilerplate qualifications that may or may not connote genuine expertise are not what the world needs, says Valerie Sartor

At best, a revitalised business education can help make tomorrow’s business leaders less destructive than their predecessors, says Carl Rhodes

Restrictions are partly due to a stilted academic culture in which criticism is uncomfortable, says Roohola Ramezani

A new ‘accord’ is promised, but hopes under previous Labor governments have sometimes been dashed, says Greg McCarthy

Identifying deception often requires analysis of patterns across large collections of articles. Publishers must work together, says David McDade

With much still unclear, complaints procedures are likely to be lengthy and fraught with contention, says Gill Evans

The divestment movement can claim victory. But what about all the companies that enable fossil fuel exploitation, asks Zak Coleman

Jo Grady’s more gradualist approach to industrial action offers better prospects for success, say Jak Peake and Adam Ozanne

After a tumultuous 2022, what will the new year bring for higher education? Some of the UK sector’s respected crystal-ball gazers offer their predictions for 2023

If those on both the Left and Right fail to examine basic assumptions, knowledge advancement is impaired, says Martyn Hammersley 

Working in the academy reminds Duncan Money of his brief time on a market stall. Time to swap it for a stable job that pays the bills

Students aiming for a Russell Group university were set up to fail by a pathways college – but then passed anyway, says Donald Short

Central government representatives are increasingly rejecting candidates selected by political foes in state governments, says Mukhtar Ahmad

Liberal arts programmes should be revamped and rebranded to emphasise the competencies they provide graduates entering the workplace, says Costas Spirou

Helping students create climate-conscious start-ups would enhance campus learning and universities’ green credentials, says Robert Phillips

Expanding the blended or online learning currently on offer will not be enough to achieve reskilling agenda, says Betty Vandenbosch

The emergence of ChatGPT underlines that keeping the status quo may be the beginning of the end for legal education, warns Mimi Zou

It’s been a bleak year as war brought more pain to a world still shaken by the pandemic and other pressures. Universities will be glad to put it behind them

Some research presentations by practitioners are more akin to sales pitches than free enquiry, says Ian Pace

Young people face one of the most challenging periods for coming of age in history. Academics should do all they can to help them, says Harvey Graff

Iranian academia was previously going through a phase of chronic depression in terms of socio-political activism, says Roohola Ramezani

The EU and the AU’s new innovation agenda is promising, but implementation will be a challenge, says Jan Palmowski

Denying that people have the potential to succeed before offering them any training contradicts what education is all about, says Elisa Stephens

Quitting Twitter lost Christopher Schaberg some connections. But the pleasures of in-person interaction far outweigh the regrets

We need to prepare students to thrive in a world where they use AI but are not dependent on it, says Mike Groves

There must be full transparency over the costs and benefits of a merged Adelaide University, says Binoy Kampmark 

Civility works well as a campus norm, and lawful rights must be protected, but ‘respect’ mandates are misguided, says Geoff Sharrock

Massification, metrics and consumerism have eroded what was distinctive about UK higher education, says Philip Langton

While students are exempt from Russia’s mobilisation, African students’ financial precarity leaves them open to pressure, says Ararat Osipian

Sector-wide guidelines on sharing and discussing research online would also be very useful, says Laura Hassink 

But institutions will contribute much more to both their localities and their planet if they collaborate more, says Simone Buitendijk

If the government is set on cutting international students, charging domestic students above the current ceiling is the only option, says Peter Ainsworth

Twitter has long been bedevilled by bad-faith debate. But government must be held to a higher standard, even when it is flying a kite

Social science papers employ more rigour than policy documents do but need to be more reader-friendly, says Tim Blackman

The campus security desk is often the first and last port of call for jet-lagged and far-from-home students, says George Bass 

Faculty need to find ways of seizing back the control that’s been wrested from them in the past few decades, says Gayle Greene

As political own goals go, threatening to both cap and confine international students to ‘elite’ institutions was in a class of its own, says David Bell

The country’s cultural deference to authority means students lack the courage and the motivation to challenge current thinking, says Aus Abdulwahhab

Institutions’ marketing approach should be to inform would-be students about the full range of degrees on offer, says Pat Moores

Saying that you stand with Ukraine while glossing over the situation in Hong Kong is untenable, says Phil Chan

Cutting-edge polling techniques can help universities genuinely canvass local needs, rather than assuming them, says Polly Curtis

Leaders should model thoughtful, respectful disagreement and bridge divisions in ideologies, say Teresa Valerio Parrot and Ali Lincoln

Overloaded slides, peculiar body language and speech that is too quick, slow, quiet or relentless are all easily fixed, says Brian Bloch