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Technicians, the academy¡¯s ¡®Cinderellas¡¯, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy

The CDBU¡¯s set-up is too narrow, too limiting: to fulfil its aims it must reach out and diversify, argues Alice Bell

Christopher Bigsby on cases not of single spies but battalions

The academy is paying too much, not too little, heed to calls for adaptability to the market, says Hannah Forsyth

Mission groups are bearing the brunt of institutions' growing need for a strong individual identity, find Julian Beer and Wendy Purcell

The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable

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New-found restraint over research council applications should be praised but will it survive further funding cuts?

Alan Ryan asks: how many Sandys will it take for us to change our ways?

A state-imposed merger of three Welsh institutions threatens self-government in the sector, Barbara Wilding warns

A declining, out-of-touch discipline and its vocational counterpart must merge to offer a thriving third way, argues Toby Miller

The growing middle classes will place huge demands on resources; universities have a pivotal role to play in the solution, says David King

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Obamacare is undemocratic; we will resist, vows Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

Casual wear is not inimical to seriousness, Sue Norton says, but formal titles do have their pedagogical merits

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In the high fees era, debates about teaching qualifications will be just as pointed in the lecture hall as in the classroom

Not a peep from Finch as scholarly journal firms fly off to tax havens and grow ever more profitable. Simon Lilley does the sorry sums

OERs are touted as the answer to all manner of global ills, but much work is needed before they fulfil the promise, writes Jeremy Knox

We aim to help all our students progress, says Malcolm Gillies

The THE World University Rankings do not signal a power shift, but rather show just how far Asia still has to go, Michael Cox argues

As a long career closes, Steven Schwartz is eager to discover what lies ahead

The fate of best-laid plans: Ivor Gaber on high fees, elite casualties and the integrity of a sorely missed journalist

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With so little hard data about, the decision on taking more places out of the numbers cap is tough. It might all come down to cost

Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other¡¯s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes

The UK's data-skills gap must be filled for the good of the social sciences and society at large, argues Ian Diamond

Bruce Macfarlane asks UK universities involved in the overseas gold rush: what price profit if you abandon your values?

As long as Ian Brady lives, he serves a useful function for society, argues Lisa Downing - as a convenient cultural repository for evil

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With the first cohort of ?9K students settling in, there is still no clear idea about how cost is affecting numbers and teaching

First-rate vocational training is more essential than ever, says Sally Feldman

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The focus on world-leading work could turn a generation of unsubmitted researchers into second-class citizens

Saving energy is an all-consuming affair for Christopher Bigsby

A visit by the Queen to Stirling four decades ago this week resulted in a fiasco that humiliated an administration, Richard Evans recalls

Geraldine Van Bueren urges the British Academy to extend the discussion about the pros and cons of a UK Bill of Rights

The British Antarctic Survey serves two masters and may need independent funding to meet its mission, suggests Klaus Dodds

Overreaction to the London Met case has exacerbated institutional racial harassment, Scott Poynting and Ann Singleton argue

Scrapping the UK census would damage social science and weaken the evidence base for state funding decisions, warns Andrew Miller

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Alan Ryan on the dystopian and utopian aspects of MOOCs

Educational fundraising is a young profession that needs to be better defined to attract candidates, says Shirley Pearce

University food is not what it used to be, laments John Gilbey, but perhaps it is not too late to make it glorious once again

Clegg voiced doubts about scrapping tuition fees before the election but failed to sway party activists, says Philip Cowley

As the party's conference looms, Mary Evans asserts that keeping its earlier pledges on education would help to combat societal divisions

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Budget forecasts suggest that higher education is still at risk from a government needing to find further savings

Freedom and Liberty are not the same, finds Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

If universities aren't spared the local council levy on new development, their communities will suffer, warns John Cater

As party conference season begins, Adam Corner asks what it means for a discipline if its practitioners are overwhelmingly left wing