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Students no longer have to travel to get a Western degree as UK education centres are setting up overseas in a global market

Tim Birkhead dreams of time to work, free from day-to-day interruptions

Dianne Berry says the HE framework must account for the future potential of universities, not just their current work

Jon F. Baldwin argues that incorporating universities into BIS may lead to a recognition of the real export value of the sector

A documentary about benefits makes Gary Day uncomfortable. Thank goodness for Timothy Spall

iPod broadcasts provide the best way for universities to present and strengthen their brand to would-be students and the public; the message must be to use the beat of popular culture to convey a serious message

Universities must do right by students, but if Donald Short's experience is anything to go by, they are falling well short

A wall of silence surrounds pedagogic courses for new lecturers that are manifestly unfit for purpose, says Joao Magueijo

God may be in the detail, says Gary Day, but asking religious leaders to prove it leads only to perplexity

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto says police officers need the academy's guidance

If you want to stay abreast of what¡¯s happening in the holidays, Gloria Monday¡¯s advice is not to leave the building

With the right will and effort, teaching can become the equal of research in promotion terms, says Paul Ramsden

Universities can do more for economic recovery if they're not hemmed in by the need to deliver quick political fixes, argues David Chiddick

Teenage girls turning to crime should be no surprise when we look at society as a whole, says Gary Day

The prescription for a higher education sector suffering self-inflicted wounds, a fiscal bruising and hysteria is a rather bitter pill

There's always a backlash against women's successes, warns Sally Feldman

Rather than treating visiting international students as cash cows or with suspicion, we should value the vital diversity they bring to education

The question is not whether standards have fallen but rather whether we have the right standards for what we are trying to achieve, says Bob Brecher

Mistrust of 'business' is misplaced: treated with respect, it can help to create knowledge, explains David Docherty

David Gauntlett says the AHRC needs to put its researchers back on the field and stop positioning them as mere spectators of culture

That v-cs cannot admit to even understanding MPs' worries about quality and consistency bodes ill for the UK's reputation

The widely held assumption that university councils must have a majority of external members is incorrect, writes Nicholas Bamforth

Let's stop panicking and let the swine flu experts do their job, says Kevin Fong

More of the same won¡¯t allow us to reform the British system effectively, writes Florian Bieber

QAA chief Peter Williams gives his verdict on the IUSS report

We live in a society where speed of communication rules, but Tara Brabazon asks if fast is necessarily better, particularly when it comes to learning

Unpaid internships not only negate widening-access efforts, they devalue jobs and graduates, says Amy Binns

Who'd marry a single-minded, career-focused academic? Other academics, it seems. But such a relationship can have downsides

This talk of social mobility is a poor form of radicalism, says Alan Ryan

Thomas Docherty examines the transparency culture, its political uses and the dangerous implications for scholarly freedom

Stefano Harney argues that as long as business schools are overawed by real-world success, they will not offer the insights industry needs

Journal articles are important, but writing books is the sine qua non of deeper understanding, says Richard Rose

Mike Boxall argues that we must forget the certainties of the past if we are to make the most of the opportunities of the future

Gary Day is disturbed by a dramatisation of the financial crisis and a portrayal of society's decline

It's easy to mock branding, but the vital job it does in telling the world what a university does and why it matters is priceless

Tim Birkhead says it's time to broaden students' horizons

Gloria Monday on business-speak, unpronounceable graduands and the human face of administration

Kevin Sharpe says pedagogy should be measured not in contact hours but by its success in shaping critical minds

Richard Bateman argues that science publishing is sacrificing innovation and creativity on the altar of uniformity

Gary Day on getting a good education, playing doctors and nurses, and the thirst for danger

The Moon landings inspired a generation of scientists, but a cash-strapped UK is unlikely to explore the final frontier

The BBC must fulfil its potential to inform, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

The internet does not have to spell disaster for the publishing industry: Tara Brabazon visits the San Francisco bookstore that holds out hope

The Paris meeting provides an important forum for discussing key issues in improving university standards around the world. Laura E. Rumbley, Liz Reisberg and Philip G. Altbach report

Behold the upholders of standards ¨C megalomaniacs who can¡¯t count, writes Gloria Monday

Contra Lord Drayson, BIS' emphasis on applied knowledge may threaten the future of UK science, says Colin Stuart

Gary Day learns little about Roy Orbison, finds poetry in space and sees eternal optimism at Wimbledon

India aims to complete its global rise by inviting foreigners to help revamp higher education, but get-rich-quick artists need not apply

The chase is thrilling, but prevention is better than cure, says Sally Feldman

Tradition, not the empty processes of the 'excellence' agenda, offers the academy a road map to higher standards, says Thomas Docherty

Being part of BIS means science is now at the epicentre of Whitehall and government policy, says Lord Drayson

Academics can't agree on the function of grades or stop their rise - perhaps we'd all be better off without them, says John Summers