After a tumultuous 2022, what will the new year bring for higher education? Some of the UK sector’s respected crystal-ball gazers offer their predictions for 2023
Liberal arts programmes should be revamped and rebranded to emphasise the competencies they provide graduates entering the workplace, says Costas Spirou
It’s been a bleak year as war brought more pain to a world still shaken by the pandemic and other pressures. Universities will be glad to put it behind them
If the government is set on cutting international students, charging domestic students above the current ceiling is the only option, says Peter Ainsworth
As political own goals go, threatening to both cap and confine international students to ‘elite’ institutions was in a class of its own, says David Bell
The UK’s 成人VR视频 Bill could become a new global reference on academic freedom – if only it can get the definition right, say Liviu Matei and Shitij Kapur
AI is close to being able to write students’ essays for them. But that will not help them understand why they think what they think, says Jane Rosenzweig
Success notwithstanding, managing different shorter-term funding streams while working towards a single long-term vision is not ideal, says Olga Wessels
To promote reputation, Rachel Sandison, deputy v-c of external engagement at the University of Glasgow, says universities should face uncomfortable truths
Institutions must be more strategic about positioning themselves and their work when considering new markets and partnerships, says Tania Rhodes-Taylor