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Labour Party will also ensure that students currently at university will not have to pay tuition for their remaining years, says shadow HE minister Gordon Marsden

Northampton vice-chancellor on his visits to Iraq ¨C and the problems they have caused him with US immigration authorities

Say Burgin says that universities lack the will to make the changes needed to tackle inequality

Sally Hunt explains why employers must change their ¡®counterproductive¡¯ attitudes towards risk to avoid further cuts to academic pensions

Vice-chancellors need to be less demanding and more collaborative and constructive if they want concessions from the government on issues such as immigration, says Lord Lucas

Objections to co-authorship with juniors display a misguided sense of ethics, say Mark Hayter and Roger Watson

As higher education costs rise inexorably, students or governments will inevitably have to pay more, says Peter Coaldrake

Higher education might not be a central issue in the UK¡¯s general election campaign, but it certainly has much riding on the outcome

While the Higher Education and Research Act seeks to level the playing field between providers, an unregulated category could spook future politicians and see the law retightened, says Nick Hillman

This week, 51³Ô¹Ï is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Brenda Jo Brueggemann writes about hearing loss

This week, 51³Ô¹Ï is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Farah Mendlesohn writes on the problems caused by poor disability access on campus

This week, 51³Ô¹Ï is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Anna Nibbs writes about her autism

Scholars' inboxes are a minefield of spam, newsletters, and the odd invitation to meet a very important person

Ronald Schuchard looks at how Eliot¡¯s time at the University of London shaped his work

This week, 51³Ô¹Ï is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Nigel Lockett talks about being a dyslexic professor

UK universities may be among the most autonomous, but they need international cooperation to make their voices heard, says Paul Boyle

Academics should get out of their bubbles and engage, not deride, says Rachel Carey

Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane

As universities rely on multiple income streams to stay afloat, private money comes with caveats and portfolios must balance profit and principle

Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don¡¯t all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton

Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D¡¯Agostino

Chinese students¡¯ calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros 

Sir Keith Burnett writes from the US on the country¡¯s mixed ¨C and sometimes misleading ¨C immigration history

Claire Taylor¡¯s approach to change in her institution has been inspired by the French president¡¯s rise to power

The definition of a university called for by the Lords never really materialised, writes Gill Evans

Bashir Makhoul tells of his inspiring journey from a tiny village in Palestine to university leadership

Forget affirmative action, says Sami Mikhail; universities are right to recruit on academic merit

UK universities rely on international researchers, say Susan Guthrie and Catie Lichten, but is the pressure on researchers to be mobile too great?

Conservative politicians emboldened by the president¡¯s election could exact the heaviest toll on higher education, says Matthew Hartley

While not all student-supervisor relationships end in disaster, permitting them infringes women¡¯s right to education, participation and a safe work environment, say five female academics 

By focusing on collaboration as much as funding levels, technological progress can spearhead national prosperity and self-confidence, says Angus Horner

Universities must not be complacent about freedom of speech, and need to ensure students use it to drive change, says Bill Rammell 

Women¡¯s pay still lags behind men¡¯s, and a lack of transparency around salaries makes it all the harder to address

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto takes issue with a claim that the EU has been playing the sovereignty card in Brexit negotiations

Yusra Mouzughi on the many dilemmas faced when recruiting staff to a brand-new university

On International Jazz Day, Mark Laver hits back at the US government¡¯s views on arts education

Baroness Amos and Toyin Saraki on why Soas is using its centenary to highlight the importance of leveraging female education to improve development

John Morgan looks at the political rewards and risks for Labour on student and sector funding

Reaction as the HE and Research Bill ends its journey through Parliament

Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin

Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orb¨¢n¡¯s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze

In an age of political civil war, the question of why the Right is so under-represented in academia is important

Students who grew up disinviting ideological difference on Facebook will naturally want to do the same on campus, says Darren Linvill

Universities should not be neutral about attempts to ¡®no platform¡¯ speakers. They must defend students¡¯ right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller

A protest campaign in support of the Hungarian university is in full swing, explains Jan Kubik

Scholars with working-class backgrounds are ideally placed to change how academics are perceived, says Stefanie Stiles

Matthew Reisz reflects on what the two remaining presidential candidates might mean for higher education

Stranded abroad, South Sudan¡¯s international students need help, writes Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Carnival atmosphere at the London March for Science as events take place across the world

Covering interview travel expenses creates financial hardships for early career academics, says Rachel Yoho

John Morgan looks at reports PM may ¡®soften¡¯ stance on students and net migration figures 

Serious novels promote the trust and people skills that societies need. They should be required reading for all degrees, says Peter Taylor-Gooby

As tactics to maximise rankings become common knowledge and fluctuation diminishes, universities will re-focus on a diversifying array of missions, says Merlin Crossley

The work of 500 scientists transformed the 20th century. Universities and funders must do more to make certain that the flow of groundbreaking discoveries continues, says Donald Braben 

The Naylor report will test the willingness of Justin Trudeau¡¯s government to overhaul research support, writes Creso S¨¢

While some fear a dystopian outcome in which private innovators bypass the university, others are more sanguine about the potential threats to the sector

Some aspects of university reform ¨C including parts of the TEF ¨C could ¡®turn to dust¡¯, says Nick Hillman

John Morgan looks at how the HE Bill's future, the impact of Brexit and Labour's fee plans are all election issues for universities

Sir Keith Burnett returns from Australia with some astute observations on two far-from-perfect higher education systems

Sir Anthony Seldon on why he chose to gather leaders from smaller colleges across the world to engage in 'deep-level' thinking