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Flexibility, speed and resources are needed to ensure that refugee scholars and students can continue their work, says Jan Palmowski 

Unless pay and conditions improve at UK universities, quality and diversity will enter a downward spiral, says Maria Sobolewska

Canadian universities must also provide the resources to support students through their studies with more scholarships and bursaries, says Opiyo Oloya

An unsustainable strategic choice has been made to worsen the university offer for future students and graduates, says Chris Husbands

Flawed assumptions about how universities and statisticians would react to the trebling of fees are behind today¡¯s retrogressive steps, says Aaron Porter

The academy should be a safe haven for ignorance ¨C provided it is accompanied by a willingness to be respectfully challenged, says Nic Smith

Senior university staff must take responsibility for improving organisational approaches to and understandings of harassment, says Liz Jackson

Offering the opportunity to iteratively paraphrase copied content to lower similarity scores is nothing to do with education, says J¨²lius Kravjar

Working-class school-leavers¡¯ fear of debts larger than their parents¡¯ annual incomes is still a big issue, say Geoffrey Alderman and Zoe Morrison 

The Covid experience has strengthened common values and accelerated unification in European higher education, says Ferruccio Resta

The Martyn Percy saga underlines the need for the academic body to be led by one of their own, says Brian Martin

A joint EU-AU document places universities in the vanguard of increased intercontinental collaboration, says Jan Palmowski

Despite China¡¯s rise, even the country¡¯s government recognises that English usage is irrevocable, say Philip Altbach and Gerard Postiglione

A publisher¡¯s move to correct the undue influence of pro-Israel groups on a history textbook shows the value of engagement, says John Chalcraft

Establishing a peer review accreditation scheme would also help incentivise higher standards, says Arfan Ghani

Senior academics who flatter juniors and promulgate a high-minded vision of higher education are all in recruitment mode, says Harvey Graff

The UK government¡¯s White Paper is a good start but needs to do more to link local learning with local needs, says Marius Ostrowski 

Time is running out to strike a deal that will cement the continent¡¯s scientific strength, says Jan Palmowski

Publishers need to examine their biases and universities their support mechanisms, say Avi Staiman, Marnie Jo Petray and Gaillynn Clements

Inhaling one another¡¯s insights could help scholars assuage public confusion about this crucial but confusing concept, says Jacques Berlinerblau

Marketing students in business schools increasingly demand to be taught to use audio-visual software, says Emmanuel Mogaji

If Jordan Peterson and his ilk think business schools have been taken over by a Marxist mob, they clearly haven¡¯t been in one recently, says Carl Rhodes

The Novak Djokovic affair underlines the need to teach that openness to error is the baseline of knowledge, say Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham

Two years of low-quality online provision has left one stranded international student homeless, unemployed and heartbroken

Random selection from a gender-equal shortlist of qualified candidates would remove the effects of implicit bias, says Nathan Burke

Removing Amy Wax from compulsory courses or revoking her named chair would not contravene her academic rights, says Daniel Carpenter

If universities will not give up NDAs, how can we expect private corporations to do any better, asks Julie Macfarlane

The technological objectification of thought plagued education long before classes were conducted over Zoom, says Kishore Saval

A ban on abortion clinics¡¯ use of university-affiliated doctors is a barefaced interference in universities¡¯ hiring decisions, says Edward Halperin

The publication of three Nature papers demonstrates that money is no substitute for good ideas, open science and collaboration, says Andrea Morello

Classroom skills that previously came naturally to lecturers and students can become very rusty in the online environment, says Christopher Hallenbrook 

Kick-starting a conversation on national funding levels is useful, but collaboration on frontier-led research needs attention, says Jan Palmowski

Marketing claims are often empty, unaccompanied by comprehensive policies, plans, timetables or evaluation criteria, says Harvey Graff

Without it, we could lose sight of the subtleties of the sliding scale of disadvantage and its impact on participation, says Jayne Taylor

Perhaps it is only by recasting an agreement as an adventure that professors can respond to the urgency of our times, says Robert Zaretsky

Higher education must double down on the liberal education values of interdisciplinarity, experiential learning and critical thinking, says Eric Skipper

The UK minister¡¯s demand that universities stick to face-to-face lectures is a step backwards for education, says Wendy Garnham

If the English regulator agrees to tear up universities¡¯ current access plans it risks undermining any perception of autonomy, says Geoffrey Alderman

Robbert Dijkgraaf's appointment to the Netherlands¡¯ new government has got academics very excited, says Mich¨¨le Wera

With concerted efforts, the UK could attract far more than 600,000 international students to its shores, says James Pitman

Hong Kong University¡¯s legally dubious dismantling of the monument to Tiananmen Square should provoke global outrage, says Phil C.W. Chan

Pushing the ARC to focus on commercialisation neglects the complex interdependency between basic and applied research, says Duncan Ivison

UK higher education is in robust shape, but it must be willing to build multiple bridges in 2022, says David Bell

Despite the pandemic, trade disputes and geopolitical tensions, several factors will continue to push and pull Chinese students abroad, says Nicolas Chu

Higher education in continental Europe needs to overcome its prejudices about DBAs if it is to meet demand from today¡¯s senior managers, says Michel Kalika

Networks such as Universitas 21 facilitate mutual support to meet net zero targets, say Tan Eng Chye and Anton Muscatelli

The Taliban¡¯s professed support for higher education has not been matched by their actions so far, says Rahmatullah Katawazai

Persuasion is everywhere, but universities could do a public service by communicating the messy, uncertain truth more widely, says Michael Blastland

They helped create the problems we face. Now business schools should be fundamentally reimagined as democratic institutions, says Carl Rhodes

Australian universities¡¯ ongoing embrace of digital approaches is cheapening learning ¨C but not in a good way, says Binoy Kampmark

The Florida governor¡¯s control over the make-up of public universities¡¯ boards makes recent controversies unsurprising, says Mei Lan Frame

The financial effects of Covid may cause disadvantaged college applicants to panic, unclear how to apply for aid or too ashamed to do so, says Amy Glynn

Deep cuts may be reversed, but the Brazilian president¡¯s anti-science rhetoric will do lasting damage, says John Aubrey Douglass

Negative connotations attached to ¡®liberal¡¯ and ¡®arts¡¯ have created a misleading perception of a transformative education model that delivers for students, say Barbara Altmann and Jeffrey Nesteruk

The effects of gentrification and displacement as neighbourhoods are transformed into vibrant hubs of creativity shouldn¡¯t be ignored, says Costas Spirou

The silence of other universities about an apparent clampdown on lawful speech is a betrayal of their mission, says Jonathan Rosenhead

Amid another round of strikes, the pension scheme chair¡¯s assertion that changes are unavoidable cannot stand unchallenged, says Neil Davies

Both dropout rates and attainment have held steady since Abertay radically reduced entry grades for disadvantaged applicants, says Nigel Seaton

The country¡¯s conservative government is wary of academia¡¯s social influence and values, but a ministerial letter offers hope, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

Both researchers and journalists should adopt a more agnostic lens when confronted with novel findings, says Anne-Laure Sellier