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By collaborating to provide careers advice to teenagers, universities will help to broaden outreach, says Tessa Stone

If the University of Wales survives the calls for closure, its leaders need to clarify its purpose, cautions alumnus Deian Hopkin

Research remains male-dominated and the equality guidelines proposed for the REF don't go far enough, says Carole Leathwood

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Words of division won¡¯t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies

The longer one wears the crown, the more tyrannical he becomes - a senior academic offers a theory of vice-chancellors' behaviour

An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson

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University rankings are inapplicable to the developing world and risk doing damage there, argues Adam Habib

Journal owners want academics to work with them towards the shared goal of furthering and disseminating research, says Graham Taylor

Adjust for population, GDP and funding, and US dominance disappears, Howard Hotson argues. And so does the case for neoliberal university reform

The use of journal rankings and citations data throughout the REF would hamstring innovation, argues Hugh Willmott

We must protect widening-participation funding for the sake of the disadvantaged, disenfranchised and disillusioned, says Martin Bean

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Sally Feldman takes umbrage with those who decry student orientation week

Help usher in universal open access - stop giving free labour to publishers that lock research away, says Michael Taylor

The top-ranked universities allow their scholars the most freedom, a lesson many governments have yet to learn, warns Terence Karran

A specialist journalistic organisation could allow academics to explain their work without distortion, suggests Peter Geoghegan

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So the UK tells foreign students with its visa regime. Australia once did too, but it has changed its tune to hang on to a rich trade

Harry Potter a metaphor for higher education? Kevin Fong explains - almost

The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald

Anachronistic academic awards for students can pose headaches for long-suffering staff, writes Adrian Furnham

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Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ¡®betrayers of the truth¡¯

Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation

Studying abroad is of great value and the cost of UK degrees will shortly become prohibitive. Peter Brady identifies a dangerous mix

We live in a connected global environment, Graeme Harper says, so why does the sector act like it's 1911, not 2011?

Clegg and Cable offer nothing new, just a return to Depression politics. They have sown the wind, says Simon Lee, and will reap the whirlwind

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It is folly to emulate a US higher education system that, according to OECD figures, is failing so many of its young citizens

US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.

As poor steering threatens to cut off the supply of homegrown STEM graduates, coalition policy looks set to crash and burn

Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?

Widening participation needs reconceptualising for a new age, say John Butcher, Rohini Corfield and John Rose-Adams

After the turbulence of the past year, business secretary Vince Cable sets out the government's vision for the future of higher education

The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben

Jeremy Black is making a stand against the grandiose claims made by far too many blurbs on the back of academic books

Demands that scholars like David Starkey not speak outside their subject threaten intellectual freedom, Frank Furedi says

Northern Ireland - and the rest of the UK - has a lot riding on tough decisions over how to pay for higher education, says Tony Gallagher

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We need a way to archive the web for the future while ensuring that people are not lost in 'data shadows' or digital doppelg?ngers

Even recalcitrant scholars can¡¯t escape the mobile¡¯s reach, says Sally Feldman

Academics should back a case-study approach to impact in the REF or risk getting far worse, says Claire Donovan

Dennis Tourish passes judgement on a system that invariably fails to give a clear picture of how well people are doing their jobs

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Degree ceremonies have become shameless branding exercises in which graduates are mere afterthoughts, laments Susan Bassnett

We need role models that encourage girls to study science, says Athene Donald

When it comes to Murdoch's involvement in our universities, the most fundamental question raised is not about individual donors: it's about the place of private wealth in the UK sector, says Deborah Cameron

David Starkey's comment that Jamaican patois drove last week's riots reveal a shockingly profound ignorance, argues Geoffrey K. Pullum