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To compete on the world stage, universities are increasingly considering mergers as a way to enhance status and expertise

For all the confusion surrounding the role of professors, one thing's certain: junior staff expect them to do a lot more to help

Scientists are harnessing the public's power, but they could go further: a partnership would yield academic and political results

The US is heavyweight champ, but the UK punches far above its weight in the world. So why isn't the government in its corner?

The back-to-campus jitters will be more pronounced than ever because, in this year of tumult, no one knows what lies ahead

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

A United Kingdom? Not where tuition fees are concerned - and the divergent regimes are causing increasing strains

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that should count

Universities cannot be truly competitive unless they can set pay locally. Like it or not, national bargaining is a dead duck

Teaching is vital, and practitioners should be accomplished in it. But converts to teacher training will not be won by compulsion

The government's proposals promise radicalism. But, born of compromise and fudge, they betray a disturbing lack of vision