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Wide support for cOAlition S¡¯ rights retention strategy would allow negotiators to take a harder line with publishers, says Alice Gibson 

Expecting academics to effectively review potential cheating incidents is unrealistic and ineffective, says Scott McFarland

Universities have a unique opportunity to shape the post-pandemic future by promoting innovation and creativity for wider social impact, says Tan Eng Chye

Making campuses sustainable will help limit future climate change but won¡¯t protect against current threats, say Frank Fernandez and Hilary Coulson

It may feel as if the media is out to get universities. But a positive, pragmatic relationship is possible ¨C and vital to public trust

Employers, universities and students are demanding bilateral recognition of Indian qualifications. Eldho Mathews explains why it matters

Allowing faulty papers to go unchallenged damages integrity and threatens dangerous real-world consequences, says Peter Bowbrick

Alongside the academic edutainer and the policy expert, there should be room for the voice from the wilderness, says Michael Marinetto

When the country embarks on recovery from its brutal second Covid wave, public spending on universities is unlikely to be a priority, says Pushkar 

Politicians developing the European Research Area must grasp how new knowledge comes about ¨C and what it can do, says Jan Palmowski

The Kickstart Scheme¡¯s rules are hard to navigate, and its design fails to harness university careers services¡¯ know-how, says Richard Mendez

The legal, security and emotional challenges must not get in the way of proper teaching and research into this crucial issue, says William Allchorn

Careers can depend on publishing in higher-quartile journals, but the statistics are too easily gamed, says Jak?a Cvitani?

Universities¡¯ nominal control of undergraduate medical training belies the fractured reality, says Jonathan Rees

The United Nations¡¯ global goals have enabled French institutions to broaden the scope of their sustainable development work, says Anne Beauval

Universities are moving in the right direction, but they can and must go further and faster, says Alice Gast

This week¡¯s Climate Exp0 underlines universities¡¯ potential to make net zero achievable, say Emily Shuckburgh, Roberto Buizza and Alyssa Gilbert

Changes to funding mechanisms can feel like a threat, but Aria will be a blast of fresh air for science and technology, says Tom Stephenson

Online exams are unfair and hard to police, even with creepy levels of invasiveness, says Helen Soteriou  

Collaborative, technically enhanced experiential learning will prepare the continent¡¯s vast young population for the digital future, says Laura Kakon

Universities are a juicy target for hackers, and online working has made them easier prey, says Laura Marsden

Doing everything by the book makes it easy for opponents to plan ahead. So shake them up a bit, says Marcia Devlin

Scholars should model the constructive criticism of ideas, not yell ¡®you're wrong¡¯ during each other¡¯s talks, says Katy Barnett

Policy should focus more on research¡¯s benefits to a region than on where it is conducted, say Sarah Chaytor, Grace Gottlieb and Graeme Reid

Even in a post-pandemic era of STEM and vocational education, the study of history must remain an option for all, says Sir Keith Burnett

Visa reform would offset declining domestic enrolments, spread US values and give students the education they want, says Kent Devereaux

The opportunity exists to reimagine the UK¡¯s post-18 education system in a way that will improve society as well as the economy, says Susan Lea

Downgrading doctoral candidates to a master¡¯s track raises questions about admissions and supervision standards, says Zhang Ruomei

Faculty must draw on abilities they have developed in the classroom to steer administrators in the right direction, says Karen Spierling

Churches¡¯ grip on former religious teacher training colleges is incompatible with their remit as publicly funded universities, says Keith Sharpe

Limited fluency and cultural concerns could lead to a backlash against German institutions¡¯ pitch to the international market, says Brian Bloch

The REF and TEF should be brought together, but adopting low-quality shortcuts would undermine the whole purpose, says Thom Brooks 

It was crucial for East Asian universities to put on more courses in English, but now they need to rethink their pedagogy, says Benjamin Tak Yuen Chan

Interdisciplinarity will not meet its problem-solving potential unless graduates are primed to embrace challenges, says Paul O¡¯Keefe

The sacking of the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Commission¡¯s chair provides an opportunity to rethink the organisation's entire rationale, says Tahir Shah

As the David Cameron furore underlines, lobbying is big business, fraught with risk. So why have universities shied away from it, asks Alberto Alemanno

An unfriendly and isolating ambience that descended into microaggressions and dismissed complaints shattered one academic's high expectations 

Those who blur the lines between academic and professional staff are the connective tissue in the research ecosystem, say Matthew Flinders and Sarah Chaytor

After a uniquely difficult year, a return to campus is on the cards and we can anticipate the thrill of rediscovering small delights

With some academics being willing to oust those they disagree with, self-censorship is a huge, unacknowledged problem, says James Tooley

Simpler options are imperfect but perhaps no more so than the panels¡¯ unavoidably cursory ¡®peer review¡¯ of submissions, says Dorothy Bishop

Be careful about what you give away in your excitement about signing a contract for a book, says Lennard Davis

Technical incompatibilities and privacy law risk preventing universities communicating to optimise individualised learning, says Gerd Kortemeyer

A decline in admissions standards suggests that foreign outposts will have to up their marketing game, says Hongqing Yang

The focus of research evaluation on papers and grants excludes far too many vital contributions. We must change that, says Simon Hettrick

Online teaching could have been much better if institutions had previously taken a communal approach to digital evolution, says Doug Specht

Restrictions are rare, but the Russell Group is putting its commitment to the open and rigorous contestation of ideas beyond doubt, says Tim Bradshaw

If we¡¯re going to measure what universities do, let¡¯s concentrate on what really counts, says Julian Skyrme

Focusing on sustainable development is not an original strategy for universities in 2021, but if anything, that only increases the value of adopting the SDGs, says Patrick Deane

Tough choices and bold strategies are needed if universities are to navigate the perilous landscape that lies ahead, argue Michael Braun and Scott Latham

Action is clearly needed to shore up the USS, but the trustee needs to be more flexible, says Alistair Jarvis

The pandemic has curtailed urgent discussion of open access¡¯ impact on scholarly societies, says Frank James

Students want to learn more about sustainable development and feel prepared for the jobs of the future, says Jamie McGowan

The woeful environmental record of the UK¡¯s research-intensive universities illustrates a lack of leadership and incentives to cut emissions, says Bill Spence

A failure of imagination and aversion to networking is preventing doctoral students finding rewarding careers outside academia, says Max Horder

Qualities of silent endurance and self-containment embodied by the Duke of Edinburgh are unlikely to resonate with, or help, a generation of students faced with adversity, says Adrian Furnham

Merging metrics for the REF, KEF and TEF would free up time for academics to become researchers once again, says Robert MacIntosh

Celebrating diversity, reforming curricula and working closely with local communities are all ways in which higher education institutions can better foster peacebuilding, says Rocky Tuan

The UK has an ambitious R&D road map but the necessary steps must be taken by politicians and funding bodies, says Andrew Thompson

As UK campuses reopen, security staff are hard pressed policing social distancing and delivering toilet rolls to isolating students, says George Bass