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Remodelling engineering degrees to include rewilding and ecological restoration would benefit students, society and the planet, says Paul Jepson

Limits on free speech, funding cuts and political appointments at public universities risk squandering a golden opportunity to create a thriving higher education system, says Saikat Majumdar

Freedom of speech and student welfare concerns are also likely to influence whether staff flag potential extremism to authorities, says major study

From Coldplay to Queen, the world’s biggest bands often meet as students – yet universities are seldom mentioned in song. Jeremy Clay ponders why and unearths some lost exemplars – including a long-lost Dutch psychedelic paean to the University of Leicester

Parents have been misled by UK universities about the support available to students, and Parliament must intervene, says Lee Fryatt

Aligning Kurdistan’s higher education system with European norms has given hope to Iraq’s students, but international help is still needed, say Aram Mohamad Qadir and Amanj Saeed

Economist Nicholas Barr, whose research shaped Labour’s 2006 fee policy, says mixed graduate tax and loan system can fix funding crisis

New chancellor of Oxford Brookes University on overcoming racism at school, ‘tedious’ drama school politics and ‘nonsense’ claims of ‘wokery’ over decolonisation of curricula

Success of Turing Scheme should not obscure lost benefits of deeper, reciprocal student exchange initiatives, explains House of Lords review

University of Winchester historian Ryan Lavelle reflects on nearly a decade advising on streaming giant’s blockbuster Vikings series

Students at the University of the Arts London formed more start-ups than any other university

Many learners reluctant to attend public institutions as this may ‘legitimise regime’, says researcher

England’s higher education regulator takes on quality scrutiny role after Quality Assurance Agency steps back

Attempt to balance interests of employers and researchers pleases no one, and weekend Twitter storm forces the plan ‘back to the assembly hall’

Additional fees to institutions that breach OfS rules may focus attention on growing regulatory costs

Disappointing results from pilot scheme indicate a focus on 10-credit modules, rather than 30-credit courses, is the way forward, says Annabel Kiernan

Eerie AI simulations of academic writing show why student essays must return to their more imaginative and freewheeling roots, says Colm O’Shea

Intense feelings of academic inadequacy and alienation can drive first-in-family students to self-destructive behaviour and thoughts of dropping out, reflects Malik Johnson on his difficult journey from the Baltimore projects to an elite private college

Forcing undergraduates to use AI chatbots as a learning tool will help students and educators, argues Dan Sarofian-Butin

In the week his sister should have graduated in Kabul as a doctor, PhD student Naimat Zafary describes the reality for Afghan women denied their degrees

While corporations and universities bowed to pressure to ban controversial BBC documentary, students showed freedom of speech and critical enquiry still matter in India, says Mukhtar Ahmad

AI-written essays have exposed the unambitious and unoriginal thinking that universities require from undergraduates, says James Warren

When her broadcasting career took off in her mid-fifties, Mary Beard became one of Britain’s best-known and most-discussed academics. Jack Grove speaks to the retiring Cambridge classicist about her eventful career, including her run-ins with sexist TV critics, Twitter trolls and Boris Johnson

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

Shadow health secretary backing a Policy Exchange blueprint for growing doctor numbers, including the creation of up to 15 new medical schools

The student accommodation crisis seen in many UK cities highlights the need for a more strategic and sustainable approach to town-gown issues, says Neal Juster

Australia’s new Labor government must allow more fee flexibility for high-cost degree subjects otherwise genuine student choice will disappear, say Robert Griew and Ian Anderson

As THE’s Global Sustainable Development Congress kicks off at the University of Glasgow, Oxfam’s chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah explains why universities are increasingly important in the fight against poverty and social injustice

Encouraging students to embody their institution’s distinctive values will allow it to present a more rounded view of the true worth of higher education, says Claire Taylor

America’s two-year public colleges are often romanticised as engines of social mobility and the epitome of the educative mission. But one academic has found the reality to be very different, with callous management failing students and staff in equal measure

As it emerges from its Covid isolation, Australia is rolling back restrictions on foreign students and graduates in the hope of ushering more of them into its depleted workforce. But amid competitive and political pressures, has it found the best balance between work and migration rights, asks John Ross

The toxic dispute over the rights of transgender people and how freely these matters should be discussed remains academia’s most divisive issue. Laura Favaro explains what she learned from speaking to both sides

Universities must agree on sector-wide expectations and support for the growing number teaching-focused academics, says Christine Cassar

The humanities do not have uniquely transformational qualities or a monopoly on critical thinking and empathy. With departments under threat outside the UK’s elite institutions, better to insist on the importance of everyone’s being able to interrogate the stories we tell ourselves, writes Joe Moran

From admissions to outreach and student data collection, the undergraduate journey must be reviewed to narrow unacceptable social and educational inequalities, say Kim Hunter Reed and Ray Belton

Enormous efforts to increase links between research fields have failed to consider how undergraduates can also benefit and contribute, says Stephanie Marshall

Closing down branch campuses in countries with questionable human rights practices, or restricting student intakes from these nations, would be a grave mistake, says Bashir Makhoul

Academics should not feel uncomfortable when their courses become increasingly focused on improving graduate outcomes, says Patrick Callaghan

Student data must be used more effectively to personalise courses, encourage engagement and identify at-risk undergraduates, says Iain Sloan

Bringing students into departmental conversations on standards safeguarding can reinvigorate a process that has served UK universities well for almost 200 years, says Clare Peddie

One of UK higher education’s leading data scientists, DataHE’s founder Mark Corver presents the key statistics that will define this year’s turbulent A levels and clearing season

Thousands of applicants missing out on their first-choice university is not a pandemic-era blip but a ‘new normal’ that will force many more to look for excellent courses beyond the Russell Group, says Mary Curnock Cook

With first-year students no longer contributing to classroom discussions as they did pre-pandemic, we need to rekindle their pleasure and agency in their own education, says Sophie Scott-Brown

Rising star of contest to be next PM signals intention to clamp down on ‘low quality degrees’ and universities that ‘indoctrinate social attitudes’

Well-meaning initiatives that prioritise student satisfaction over educational objectives deny students access to the type of rich learning experience that universities were designed for, argue Rebekah Wanic and Nina Powell 

The ambitious goals of online education cannot be achieved unless universities prioritise student mentoring and pastoral support, says Chandralekha Singh

The UK government’s bill to tackle university cancel culture would give it unacceptable powers to control academic debate and student protest, says George Letsas

Economic uncertainty may have encouraged students to stay in education despite campus closures, says UK statistics body

Guards are adept at taking escalating student consumerism in their stride. Coffee may also be served, says George Bass 

Plans for students to apply to university after receiving their results have again been abandoned

As politicians begin to confront America’s student debt crisis, Charlie Eaton explains how public opinion turned so decisively against the financialisation of US higher education and why full loan cancellation is now on the cards

Appealing narrative attached to ‘first-in-family’ students may obscure the actual extent of their social disadvantage, says researcher

Students should be able to try out mentors before committing to a years-long relationship, researchers say

Negative connotations attached to ‘liberal’ and ‘arts’ have created a misleading perception of a transformative education model that delivers for students, say Barbara Altmann and Jeffrey Nesteruk

The new wave of violence targeting female students across the UK requires urgent redress, says Nicole Westmarland

Changing university curricula to reflect challenges of climate change will inspire students, not lofty environmental commitments, says Daniella Tilbury

One university’s strenuous efforts to eradicate cheating by students and academics point the way for the whole sector, says Július Kravjar

As most universities say they will keep some elements online in the autumn term, London institution plans to buck the trend

Hundreds of thousands of foreign students continue to be left out as classes resume in September  

Former foreign students recount memorable experiences in world’s most isolated country, including being openly spied on by their hosts