How the anti-apartheid movement failed black South Africans
Thirty years ago this month, apartheid’s opponents declared victory and signed out. Yet racist legacies persist to this day, says Noam Schimmel
Thirty years ago this month, apartheid’s opponents declared victory and signed out. Yet racist legacies persist to this day, says Noam Schimmel
Chinese students in the Anglosphere want to develop their careers and learn English, not to be lectured about how terrible their homeland is, says Sibei Sun
University managers must be committed to cultivating a compassionate culture and building trust in the workplace, says Andrew Woon
Extra costs linked to proposed new Research Excellence Framework rules could send art history departments to the wall, warns Francesca Berry
Recruiting underprepared students is damaging the classroom experience and is soul-crushing for teachers, says a UK lecturer
Knowledge is commodified by the prioritisation of economic imperatives over social and democratic goals in educational policymaking, says Zahid Naz
Existing measures tend to focus on training to enhance women’s skills, rather than addressing structural and behavioural issues, says Mairi Gibbs
No one should assume that university managers and consultants have all the solutions to UK universities’ financial woes, says Chris Moore
Inflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of exploiting offshore UK-registered students, says Michael Day
No journey in strange new waters can be smooth sailing, but healthy conflicts have a place in innovation and transformation, say David Lloyd and Peter Høj
AI agents are what they ingest. Rather than scraping the internet, better to confine their diets to books and encyclopedias, says Sorin Adam Matei
Institutions must instead provide fora and establish rules for debating issues and their moral implications, says Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
A series of open letters on Israel-Gaza underlines that scholars rarely have superior knowledge, moral insight or political acumen, says Adrian Kreutz
AI will make courses cheaper to deliver, more professionally relevant and more pedagogically effective, says Max Lu
Universities are in a funding cul-de-sac, blocked in by negative rhetoric about their role and value. Will a likely change of government provide a way out?