Academics must speak up about research that could cause harm
The regulations can be ambiguous, but the masturbation paper furore is a result of supervisors’ and reviewers’ lack of vigilance, says Michelle Shipworth
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Rate My Professors is bad for student learning
Feeding the belief that success depends entirely on external factors discourages students from taking responsibility, says James Wicks
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Business schools’ societal impact aspirations are a joke
Unless research culture fundamentally changes, academics will continue to be fixated with journal rankings, says Carl Rhodes
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Transformative agreements are not the key to open access
Without a fuller embrace of repositories, the transition with be slow, partial and siloed, says Kathleen Shearer
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Response: US universities speak out against Trump travel ban
Paul Fain on the university leaders and senior HE figures responding to Trump's executive order
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Why city partnerships are crucial for international research
Setting up institutional links with partners in key global cities is one way UCL is preparing for life after Brexit, says Florian Mussgnug
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World University Rankings blog: should global league tables consider community engagement?
Yes they should, argue Anthony Monaco and Cheryl de la Rey
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Student unionism is not in crisis
Liberation issues and bread-and-butter issues do not sit on opposite ends of an imaginary relevance spectrum, say Ben Vulliamy and Pierrick Roger
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Labour rights are not the solution to PhD exploitation
The doctorate must remain an apprenticeship. Better to cut PhD students’ teaching load by hiring more teaching staff, says Ruth Machen
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International educators must lead on anti-racist education
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
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Does the Australian government really hate universities?
As Australia’s general election looms, many in university circles may be hoping that Scott Morrison’s coalition is voted out. But is it true that conservative governments and universities are natural...
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European universities must embrace truly equal partnerships with Africa
A joint EU-AU document places universities in the vanguard of increased intercontinental collaboration, says Jan Palmowski
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Mass-sanctioning Russia will not solve Ukrainian academia’s problems
Barring collaboration with 236 Russian universities raises more questions than it answers, says Ararat Osipian
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The ‘Western university’ is too taken up with scientific knowledge
Other value frameworks, such as those implicit in indigenous knowledges, must be better heard, says Ronald Barnett