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‘SWAT team’ of finance experts and science writers helps university secure more federal research funds than any other US institution, says its vice-provost for research

As the year ends, the problems facing universities seem to be stacking ever higher. But will a general election next year bring any respite?

Folasade Ogunsola discusses her country’s battle with brain drain and universities’ search for ‘creative’ ways to combat funding shortfalls

Tsinghua vice-president Bin Yang outlines how the nation’s rapid digital development is evolving to boost the quality and accessibility of education and to give the world a window on China

As Sir Colin Campbell knew, an overseas footprint offers the long-term returns that universities are established for, say Christine Ennew and David Greenaway

New York University’s multiple sites around the world were instrumental in minimising Covid-related disruption, says Andrew Hamilton

A recent email by a UK vice-chancellor is a case study in how not to inspire people to go beyond the call of duty, say two management scholars

Universities should decide their funding needs based on their goals in teaching, research and outreach, say Nicolai Foss, Peter Klein and Phillip Nell  

Humanities benefit individuals, societies and economies. They should be accessible to students from all backgrounds, says Neal Juster

Focus on organisational hygiene and you get a nice place to work. Quality and high performance may or may not follow, says Grahame Dowling

If good collegial practice is recognised, shared and rewarded, universities will be more enjoyable places to work, says Rachel Norman

The Great Resignation, remote working and rapid changes in the graduate employment market are all forcing US higher education institutions to evolve – fast. But are institutions that have spent two years managing Covid-19 ready to take up another challenge? Paul Basken reports

Members lack expertise and groupthink is a constant peril. Better to entrust scrutiny to expert lawyers and ethicists, says Adrian Furnham

Despite incremental reforms throughout Emmanuel Macron’s first term as president, France still has one of the most centralised higher education systems in Europe. As the election looms, Ben Upton examines attitudes towards institutional autonomy and asks whether its supposed effects on equality and academic freedom are limiting appetite for more

If universities were mainstream businesses they would be in the category of bloated, oligopolistic conglomerates, says Timothy Devinney

It is doubtful that a management consulting firm could avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater, says Grahame R. Dowling

The default mode of human problem-solving is to add complexity. But we must try harder to resist, say Leidy Klotz and Robert Sutton

Universities’ oligarchic control of degree provision and metrics’ misguided focus are shortchanging both students and academics, says Murdoch Gabbay

For the new technical qualification to be a success, every university must encourage applicants from these courses, says David Gallagher

Teaching students to hack is necessary to show them how to defend against it – but we need to do more to instil ethics, says Andy Farnell  

Three decades after the abolition of the binary divide between universities and polytechnics, some commentators still lament the supposed loss of locally focused vocational education. But even as the political winds buffet them, do post-92s offer the solution to the UK’s skills problem? John Morgan reports

The 10-year Idex process to reconfigure French universities and make them more internationally visible has reached its conclusion, writes John Ludden

Students need help to make better course choices and lifelong learners need a flexible application system, says Graeme Atherton

Transparency, institutional accountability and continual change are all essential, says Georgina Randsley de Moura

Vice-chancellors and presidents must deliver fully inclusive environments from which female leaders will emerge, says Lucy Meredith

Local authorities should work in close collaboration with academic institutions to make international students feel welcome, says James Pitman

A large new survey gives the lie to the idea that liberal arts colleges are more responsive to students’ needs than universities are, notes Samuel Abrams

Frozen fee levels must rise eventually, but universities need to deliver efficiency gains through hybrid learning, says David Willetts

Universities have a duty to protect students from the power imbalance inherent in a personal relationship with a staff member, says Cara Aitchison

Unless pay and conditions improve at UK universities, quality and diversity will enter a downward spiral, says Maria Sobolewska

Canadian universities must also provide the resources to support students through their studies with more scholarships and bursaries, says Opiyo Oloya

Senior university staff must take responsibility for improving organisational approaches to and understandings of harassment, says Liz Jackson

Working-class school-leavers’ fear of debts larger than their parents’ annual incomes is still a big issue, say Geoffrey Alderman and Zoe Morrison 

The Martyn Percy saga underlines the need for the academic body to be led by one of their own, says Brian Martin

A joint EU-AU document places universities in the vanguard of increased intercontinental collaboration, says Jan Palmowski

The grip of Silicon Valley on commerce and culture is huge and ever-growing. But as concerns mount about tech firms’ ethics, is there anything that universities – with vastly lower research and salary budgets – can do to put them on a more responsible trajectory? Four experts give their views

Every college-university relationship should be viewed as the mutually beneficial arrangement it genuinely is, says Sam Parrett

The UK government’s White Paper is a good start but needs to do more to link local learning with local needs, says Marius Ostrowski 

Time is running out to strike a deal that will cement the continent’s scientific strength, says Jan Palmowski

As the value of public funding diminishes, success will depend on ability to boost other sources of income, says Anton Muscatelli

Border restrictions, differing national Covid strategies and changing demographics have all made significant impacts on overseas recruitment over the past two years. Simon Baker examines the latest data from five major recruiting nations and considers what they might presage for the future

Universities in non-anglophone nations should limit teaching in English and offer English support to students and academics, says Rosemary Salomone

Requiring 60 per cent of graduates to go into managerial or professional roles ignores the reality of creative careers, says Bashir Makhoul

Two years of low-quality online provision has left one stranded international student homeless, unemployed and heartbroken

Random selection from a gender-equal shortlist of qualified candidates would remove the effects of implicit bias, says Nathan Burke

Removing Amy Wax from compulsory courses or revoking her named chair would not contravene her academic rights, says Daniel Carpenter

If universities will not give up NDAs, how can we expect private corporations to do any better, asks Julie Macfarlane

A ban on abortion clinics’ use of university-affiliated doctors is a barefaced interference in universities’ hiring decisions, says Edward Halperin

Kick-starting a conversation on national funding levels is useful, but collaboration on frontier-led research needs attention, says Jan Palmowski

The Oxford college’s vast expenditure of charitable funds to try to dislodge its own dean could have serious repercussions, says Alan Rusbridger

Reskilling may help workers feed their families – but a plateful of modules may not add up to a square educational meal, warns Johnny Rich

Adapting and adopting US approaches to commercialisation offer an opportunity for the UK, says Chris Loryman

Without it, we could lose sight of the subtleties of the sliding scale of disadvantage and its impact on participation, says Jayne Taylor

Higher education must double down on the liberal education values of interdisciplinarity, experiential learning and critical thinking, says Eric Skipper

The UK minister’s demand that universities stick to face-to-face lectures is a step backwards for education, says Wendy Garnham

Robbert Dijkgraaf's appointment to the Netherlands’ new government has got academics very excited, says Michèle Wera

With concerted efforts, the UK could attract far more than 600,000 international students to its shores, says James Pitman

The pandemic may just push US colleges and universities to do what they should have done a long time ago: reorganise, says Michael Hadjiargyrou

Teaching modules intensively, rather than in parallel, has had positive results at the handful of institutions that have tried it. But would it work for all students and all subjects? And would academics trade autonomy in course design for more research time? Anna McKie reports

Enlisting miscreants to help improve understanding of contract cheating, as part of their punishment, could be a way forward, says Kholah Yaruq Malik