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From stealing ornamental fish to spraying car parts in the shower, domestic students make security staff earn their meagre wages, says George Bass

Research support staff are crying out for a more supportive funding and regulatory environment, says Ross McLennan 

Reversing some recent trends in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says Ian Pace

Good progress has been made on implementing the Universities Accord but much more is needed to achieve parity, say five deputy vice-chancellors

Without specific classes, students may leave college still unable to separate science from nonsense, says Natalia Pasternak

Responding to early-career researchers¡¯ honest questions with accusations of misconduct is a travesty of open science, says Madeleine Pownall

The three-month pause to re-examine the assessment of ¡®people, culture and environment¡¯ could prelude a welcome reversal, says Alice Sullivan

The suppressive precedents being set in the US, Germany and Israel can and will be applied to other issues, too, say Katharina Galor and Noga Wolff 

Vibrant academic communities in all parts of the UK will allow rising stars of humanities and social sciences to shine, says Alex Lewis

Portraying ChatGPT as a playground for plagiarists is a timid response to AI¡¯s ability to enhance research in all subjects, argues Agnieszka Piotrowska

Threat of financial collapse is causing universities to double down on an officious management style that is sapping academic morale, undermining excellence and damaging collegiality between academia¡¯s different tribes, says Tin Sulejmanpasic 

Honest and open-ended conversations over how AI can be productively used in the learning journey are needed, not ChatGPT bans, says Ava Doherty

Failure to acknowledge how class operates within academia means many students still feel uncomfortable on campus, says Beth Johnson

Churning out so many PhD graduates into a weak academic labour market and marginalising innovative doctorates is immoral, says Ianis Matsoukas

Netflix¡¯s university-set romcom is strangely silent about the ethics of college tutors sleeping with their students, says Robert Dingwall

Failure to explain how AI-aided academic writing is a form of plagiarism leaves graduate students horribly compromised, says E.M. Wolkovich

Excluding academia from the main discussions at recent national productivity summit is short-sighted and complacent, says Shamit Saggar

Asking undergraduates to submit pen-on-paper essays is a desperate and retrograde step that undermines assessment rather than safeguards it, says Dan Sarofian-Butin

Videos of glamorous scholars sipping coffee portray a lifestyle far removed from the toxic culture of overwork faced by academics, says Rituparna Patgiri

Broadening traditional conceptions of what it means to be ¡®smart¡¯ must now be part of HE¡¯s mission, say Adelaide University¡¯s David Lloyd and Peter H?j

If the UK has decided it can no longer afford the sub-Oxbridge university model, expectations need to be systematically lowered, says Robert Dingwall

Employers are confining many low-skilled roles to graduates. Why should they care that this requires recruits to take on huge debt, asks Paul Wiltshire

As an editor, I am receiving submissions from spurious authors consisting of previously published papers altered by AI. But why, asks Seongjin Hong