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Nottingham Trent University’s chair of governors Neil Goulden explains why institutions need to do more to regain public esteem

Academics do not want to damage students' education but strike action is the only option left to protect pensions, says Sam Marsh

Their emphasis on cultivating understanding makes universities natural homes for those at war with their societies, says Shahidha Bari

Alexander Clark and Bailey Sousa urge academics to leave their ‘fixed mindsets’ behind if they want their careers to flourish

Threats to dock pay from university staff working only their hours during the USS pensions dispute ignore academics’ unpaid hours, says Will Pooley

We answer some of your questions about the forthcoming Times Higher Education Innovation Rankings

The evidence used to compile Spiked Online’s Free Speech Rankings is not to be trusted, says Carl Thompson

Sarah Stevens looks at how universities are endeavouring to deliver the skills and learning the UK needs

The concept of the graduate career is breaking down as university leavers spread across the employment spectrum, says Gerbrand Tholen

Australian academic accused of copying statements from Wikipedia and other journal articles without attribution in court

A law graduate’s attempt to sue the University of Oxford for £1 million over ‘inadequate teaching’ sheds far more light on how students learn than current TEF metrics, says Gill Evans

Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence, argues Robert MacIntosh

Universities must resist the urge to make knee-jerk cuts after disappointing application numbers – better times are on the horizon and we must be prepared, says Zahir Irani

THE survey reveals how work pressures shape researchers’ decisions around relationships and family

Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships and family around their ever-growing workloads. Ellie Bothwell reports

Universities pay only for direct teaching time, making effective hourly pay derisory, union claims

Accepting that your doctoral studies will sometimes take second place to family commitments is part of the journey of a PhD student mother, says Annabelle Workman

Simon Baker, THE’s data editor, charts some of the different strengths and weaknesses among Asian countries’ universities

Just as the ‘little red dot’ city state has made an indelible mark on the global stage, president of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Subra Suresh examines how his institution has garnered attention

China’s Southern University of Science and Technology puts an overriding emphasis on knitting together talented people from all regions and levels, says its president, Shiyi Chen

Futao Huang considers the five nations trying to compete with China, Asia’s higher education superpower

China has put itself atop the rankings and set the model that others seek to emulate, says Phil Baty

Ellie Bothwell compares two Beijing universities, Tsinghua and Peking, to explain the former’s rise

Singapore has the continent’s best university for the third year in a row but China’s stars are in the ascendant, says Ellie Bothwell

Growing interest in the student mental health crisis is welcome, but it is overburdened hourly paid lecturers who are most at risk of stress in universities, says Sam Christie

Long-held beliefs about the UK’s hierarchy of institutions do not stand up to scrutiny, and hold back progress, argues Edward Peck

As Theresa May concludes her trade visit to China, Tim Bradshaw reflects on how research-intensive universities have paved the way for increased East-West trade

Explore the latest offering in our teaching-focused rankings portfolio, says THE’s data and analytics director Duncan Ross 

It is incumbent on the government to help build better ties between companies such as Google and the university sector, says Alex Acland

Not every course takes three years to complete, says Charles Prince, so we must look at ways to deliver accelerated programmes

Dorothy Bishop wishes people would stop reinforcing the idea that universities are places of privilege where the staff sit idly around thinking ‘great thoughts’

The teaching of ethics in drama overlooks how theatre-makers should be treated, and how they should treat one another, while doing their jobs, says Daniel Foster 

UEA expert dismisses the idea that rehearsal-room romances can serve artistic ends

THE data analysis in partnership with Elsevier highlights economic impact of world’s leading institutions 

A year-long experiment convinced Michael Marinetto that carving out research time is a fun but unwinnable game 

David Pitt-Watson and Hari Mann believe there could be a way to settle the ongoing pensions row amicably

With student numbers falling as fees rise, drastic action is needed to widen participation, says Claire Callender

Scott Anthony takes issue with claims that Singapore’s leading universities have neglected local intellectual life

The 2018 regional rankings use Times Higher Education’s tried and tested methodology to scrutinise Asia

Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

Ongoing ministerial education reviews risk treating technical and academic education as separate pathways, says Quintin McKellar, and this could be to the detriment of both

Mary Visser asks if universities are delivering for people born in the late 1990s

Criticism of academic sisterhood survey gets to the crux of the matter that the resulting article will explore, says Holly Else

Thomas Curran looks at what lecturers can do to help when faced with students presenting perfectionistic tendencies

Chris Parr looks at the issues that THE's Twitter followers think the new universities minister should be tackling

Ahead of our Asia Universities Summit, Sir Keith Burnett looks into the future for UK higher education and sees the growing importance of China 

The MBA is no longer a qualification with ‘near mythical status’ offered by only a handful of elite academic institutions – so does it still have value? asks Fran Johnson

Universities have a big role to play in counteracting the nationalist sentiment emerging around the world, Amit Chakma says ahead of 2018 Asia Universities Summit

Most human beings think well enough, and students are no exception. They just need help to express it within academic conventions, says Stuart Wrigley

Claire Taylor looks at how UK universities can rebuild trust

Simon Marginson looks ahead at what 2018 has in store for academia in the UK and further afield 

Martin Hamilton on four edtech trends to look out for over the next 12 months

UUK chief executive Alistair Jarvis outlines how he hopes the HE sector will work with the new OfS

Jana Bacevic takes a look through the history books to assess how the government’s recent announcement on two-year degrees could pan out

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam looks at restrictions to academic freedom in what he describes as an age of ‘psycho-nationalism’

Winter reads: scholars and senior sector figures share the books that have made the greatest impact on them over the past year, and the ones they are most looking forward to reading

The past year has seemed one of almost daily shocks and surprises for higher education, which THE has divulged, documented and dissected

Minimum compliance with publication requirements is the best recipe for job satisfaction, says Mike Marinetto

Winter reads: scholars and senior sector figures share the books that have made the greatest impact on them over the past year, and the ones they are most looking forward to reading