For reimagining Australian tertiary education, many heads beat two
AI is helping us mine 200,000 stakeholders’ ideas, sensible and silly, about core elements of the new Adelaide University, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd
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An elite failure to support science risks hobbling India’s ambitions
Recent pronouncements and government actions could undermine ordinary Indians’ faith in science and stifle critical thinking, says Mukhtar Ahmad
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Journals must stop blocking critical comments
Allowing faulty papers to go unchallenged damages integrity and threatens dangerous real-world consequences, says Peter Bowbrick
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The UCU’s failure on working conditions is not all down to Jo Grady
The general secretary’s visibility makes her a natural target for discontent, but many of the blunders arose from committee decisions, says Dyfrig Jones
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Differences of opinion
John Colley advocates publishing the results of student questionnaires and compares them to patient survival rates (“It’s got to be good”, Opinion, 10 October). He seems to think that the former are...
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Universities must put their money where their mouths are on liberal arts
Innovative programmes to revive student interest in the humanities are great, but they must be properly funded and staffed, says an academic
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Idaho retreats from ban on discussing abortion in classrooms
State disavows its own idea that professors can’t discuss reproductive rights, but wary faculty persist with lawsuit
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Sacked professor plans defence union for whistleblower academics
Brain researcher’s clash with University of Sydney administration follows exit from Imperial in earlier whistleblower row
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No one gains if social media storms stunt research in contentious areas
Researchers mustn’t be obliged to second-guess which results might not play out well in public or with powerful interests, worries Tracey Brown
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Iceland’s seven universities may soon become five due to mergers
Leaders argue that integrating operations will strengthen specialisms, but students give plans a frosty reception
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Labour funding plan delay ‘concerning’ as clock ticks to election
Party stalls even on limited changes like stepped loan repayments, while deeper reform might only come ‘in return for value-for-money case’
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A matter of opinions
Is student-centred learning a sound practice based on mutually respectful shared scholarship or a managerialist fad that fails to stretch the brightest? John Gill weighs the arguments
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Universities’ failure to instil modern digital literacy threatens democracy
The UK government’s deeply flawed Online Safety Bill reflects widespread ignorance about tech – even within higher education, says Andy Farnell
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A question of incentives
University rankings wield enormous influence. But if constructed and used correctly, they should be a mirror and support, not a straitjacket
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Is Substack a brave new world for academic publishing?
Platform offers scholars a way of building a profile and livelihood away from universities, but what makes a successful Substacker, and is there really room for everyone?