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Singaporeans are starting to question the benefit of recruiting so much global research talent, say Pang Eng Fong and Linda Lim

Don¡¯t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries ¨C we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham

It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh

Brain-boosting drugs can help students and academics alike to unlock their potential, says Hemmel Amrania

Creeping political interference in universities, from the UK to Hungary and the US, is part of a worrying shift in attitudes towards higher education

Hungary is making ¡®dubious history¡¯ by reversing the expansion of universities, writes David Matthews

Variations in the Russell Group demonstrate a mixed national picture, write Joshua Stubbs and Paul Wakeling

In the last two decades the number of mainland students going abroad to study has increased more than twentyfold, but what does this mean for employment, asks Ka Ho Mok

Yusra Mouzughi on the challenges of doing business when universities take a break

Southampton Solent University¡¯s Tere Daly responds to the former political adviser¡¯s article in today¡¯s Daily Telegraph

Key figures from the university sector respond to the 2017 A-level results

Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala¡¯Aldeen

Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy

Universities used to be thought unsinkable, but the unthinkable ¨C an institution going to the wall ¨C is now a genuine, if yet remote, prospect

Remuneration committees should pay less attention to other institutions when setting their leaders¡¯ pay, says Nick Hillman

Replacing England¡¯s tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis

Think carefully about treating students differently because of their backgrounds

Together, FE and HE can become a dynamic force for skills development in the UK, writes Alison Whittle

Taking in a refugee student posed more challenges than Sharon Maxwell Magnus was expecting, but the effort was well worth it

Phil Baty has the latest on the publication of the 2018 51³Ô¹Ï World University Rankings, which will be launched in London in September

The effectiveness of the NSS boycott means it is now time for universities to sit up and listen, says Sorana Vieru

Australian legislation proposes to lower the country¡¯s generous loan repayment threshold ¨C but some argue that it should rise even higher, says Andrew Norton

The subject-level teaching excellence framework could lead to a lot of stress for no great gains over the institution-level TEF, says Andrew McRae

Universities, funders, rankers and individual academics all need to act to stamp out predatory publishers, says Roger Watson

The publication game that researchers are obliged to play has stripped the purpose out of social research. Time to change the rules, says Yiannis Gabriel

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Institutions are feeling under attack; they need to counter their critics by showing proudly and publicly the immense good work they do

Joanne Taylor and Genefor Walker-Smith on the importance of scholarly rigour ¨C even when the media want answers fast

The success of the student boycott of the National Student Survey is not necessarily a success for students, writes Andrew McRae 

Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom

Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal

Many students aren¡¯t reporting sexual harassment or assault on campus despite efforts to tackle the problem, say Hareem Ghani and Graham Towl

Joanna Dally and Frances Downey imagine the research culture of the future

Prevent monitoring and defeat of legal challenge shows that anti-extremism policy is not limiting academic freedom, says Hifsa Harron-Iqbal

Expanding degree apprenticeships will strengthen universities¡¯ important role in improving their local communities, says Dawn Morley

Running a major university today is a hugely demanding job that requires a rare skill set, says Len Shackleton

Without more research funding, senior Indonesian academics are unlikely to be able to meet new government-imposed publication standards, says Martin Surya Mulyadi

Before pouring more public or private money into universities, politicians must ensure that all students are properly prepared, says Warren Bebbington

Academics able to link their expertise to world events can raise their personal and institutional profiles to previously unimaginable levels, says Russell Reader

Universities claim to bestow on graduates the key to open the door to any job: critical thinking. But even if they do, are employers interested?

The UK's ¡®red line¡¯ on free movement of labour may prevent its students from participating in the Erasmus exchange programme, says European Union law expert

John McCormack has been speaking to teaching-only staff at Russell Group universities, and they have plenty of reasons to be annoyed

UK leads drive towards more open way of sharing science, says Jo Johnson

Nazima Kadir¡¯s social circle reveals a range of alternative careers for would-be scholars, and often with better rewards than academia

Yale-NUS College has just graduated its first students, writes Trisha Craig

Universities are at least aware of the gender pay problem, says Alex Holmes, but there is still work to be done

There is no ¡®hard divide between academics and administrators¡¯, writes Charles Knight in response to criticisms of academic university staff

How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade

Financial issues are not the central barriers to increased university access in Canada. It is cultural factors that must be tackled, say Ross Finne, Athur Sweetman and Richard Mueller

It is not Luddism to be cautious about destroying an academic publishing industry that has served us well, says Marilyn Deegan

Providing support for learners on low-cost ¡®flat-pack degrees¡¯ is key to expanding international higher education in Australia and worldwide, says Merlin Crossley

Amid fresh criticism of executive remuneration, perhaps universities need to rethink the issue of vice-chancellors¡¯ salaries

Helping students into ¡®tougher¡¯ universities means that they are statistically more likely to drop out, says Huw Owen

Collaboration between universities is more vital than ever as higher education becomes more marketised, say Indre Urbanaviciute and Rhiannon Llystyn Jones

Tony Hey charts the progress of the US and UK Open Science movement 

John Tregoning has a plan to help TEF metrics support performance, scientific excellence and personal development

As the pay of BBC on-air talent is revealed, one academic comes clean about his salary