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Identifying deception often requires analysis of patterns across large collections of articles. Publishers must work together, says David McDade

With much still unclear, complaints procedures are likely to be lengthy and fraught with contention, says Gill Evans

The divestment movement can claim victory. But what about all the companies that enable fossil fuel exploitation, asks Zak Coleman

Jo Grady¡¯s more gradualist approach to industrial action offers better prospects for success, say Jak Peake and Adam Ozanne

After a tumultuous 2022, what will the new year bring for ÖйúAƬ? Some of the UK sector¡¯s respected crystal-ball gazers offer their predictions for 2023

If those on both the Left and Right fail to examine basic assumptions, knowledge advancement is impaired, says Martyn Hammersley 

Working in the academy reminds Duncan Money of his brief time on a market stall. Time to swap it for a stable job that pays the bills

Students aiming for a Russell Group university were set up to fail by a pathways college ¨C but then passed anyway, says Donald Short

Central government representatives are increasingly rejecting candidates selected by political foes in state governments, says Mukhtar Ahmad

Liberal arts programmes should be revamped and rebranded to emphasise the competencies they provide graduates entering the workplace, says Costas Spirou

Helping students create climate-conscious start-ups would enhance campus learning and universities¡¯ green credentials, says Robert Phillips

Expanding the blended or online learning currently on offer will not be enough to achieve reskilling agenda, says Betty Vandenbosch

The emergence of ChatGPT underlines that keeping the status quo may be the beginning of the end for legal education, warns Mimi Zou

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

Some research presentations by practitioners are more akin to sales pitches than free enquiry, says Ian Pace

Young people face one of the most challenging periods for coming of age in history. Academics should do all they can to help them, says Harvey Graff

Iranian academia was previously going through a phase of chronic depression in terms of socio-political activism, says Roohola Ramezani

The EU and the AU¡¯s new innovation agenda is promising, but implementation will be a challenge, says Jan Palmowski

Denying that people have the potential to succeed before offering them any training contradicts what education is all about, says Elisa Stephens

Quitting Twitter lost Christopher Schaberg some connections. But the pleasures of in-person interaction far outweigh the regrets

We need to prepare students to thrive in a world where they use AI but are not dependent on it, says Mike Groves

There must be full transparency over the costs and benefits of a merged Adelaide University, says Binoy Kampmark 

Civility works well as a campus norm, and lawful rights must be protected, but ¡®respect¡¯ mandates are misguided, says Geoff Sharrock

Massification, metrics and consumerism have eroded what was distinctive about UK ÖйúAƬ, says Philip Langton

While students are exempt from Russia¡¯s mobilisation, African students¡¯ financial precarity leaves them open to pressure, says Ararat Osipian

Sector-wide guidelines on sharing and discussing research online would also be very useful, says Laura Hassink 

But institutions will contribute much more to both their localities and their planet if they collaborate more, says Simone Buitendijk

If the government is set on cutting international students, charging domestic students above the current ceiling is the only option, says Peter Ainsworth

Twitter has long been bedevilled by bad-faith debate. But government must be held to a higher standard, even when it is flying a kite

Social science papers employ more rigour than policy documents do but need to be more reader-friendly, says Tim Blackman

The campus security desk is often the first and last port of call for jet-lagged and far-from-home students, says George Bass 

Faculty need to find ways of seizing back the control that¡¯s been wrested from them in the past few decades, says Gayle Greene

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 country¡¯s cultural deference to authority means students lack the courage and the motivation to challenge current thinking, says Aus Abdulwahhab

Institutions¡¯ marketing approach should be to inform would-be students about the full range of degrees on offer, says Pat Moores

Saying that you stand with Ukraine while glossing over the situation in Hong Kong is untenable, says Phil Chan

Cutting-edge polling techniques can help universities genuinely canvass local needs, rather than assuming them, says Polly Curtis

Leaders should model thoughtful, respectful disagreement and bridge divisions in ideologies, say Teresa Valerio Parrot and Ali Lincoln

Overloaded slides, peculiar body language and speech that is too quick, slow, quiet or relentless are all easily fixed, says Brian Bloch

German-style political stability and long-term science funding could help mitigate the damage, say Zach Meyers and John Springford

More hardship funding, bigger maintenance loans and restored grants would all complement universities¡¯ efforts, says Sarah Stevens

The department¡¯s threat to ban international students from all but the top UK universities is totally counterproductive, says Nick Hillman

The need to rearrange academic units and, potentially, cut staff is the direct result of UK government policy, say David Latchman and Matthew Innes

The array of challenges facing universities and their leaders is daunting, with a broken funding system underpinning the pain in England

The UK¡¯s ÖйúAƬ Bill could become a new global reference on academic freedom ¨C 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

Technology will never be properly integrated into teaching if it is seen as separate from the physical classroom, says David Puttnam

What the country really needs is a common school and evaluation system that compensates for background inequalities, says Gowhar Rashid Ganie

Building a publishing platform that allows scholars to earn from sales of their papers has put all Pooja Sawrikar¡¯s rage to good use 

Success notwithstanding, managing different shorter-term funding streams while working towards a single long-term vision is not ideal, says Olga Wessels

The police-catch-punish approach neglects to address plagiarists¡¯ misunderstanding of what ÖйúAƬ is all about, says Sioux McKenna

Greater efforts need to be made to distinguish predatory journals from those that at least aspire to scholarly standards, says Harvey Graff

If government sets clear ambitions, innovation follows from the private sector and charities ¨C not the other way round, says Ian Walker

Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University, has some advice for how universities can become as respected in society as they once were

Times ÖйúAƬ¡¯s head of reputation outlines the current landscape 

In Hong Kong, as elsewhere, managers should support faculty and students to engage in inquiry whatever their personal values, says Carsten Holz

To promote reputation, Rachel Sandison, deputy v-c of external engagement at the University of Glasgow, says universities should face uncomfortable truths

The findings of the UniSAFE survey about the extent of gender-based violence at European universities are troubling, says Susan Sorenson

Institutions must be more strategic about positioning themselves and their work when considering new markets and partnerships, says Tania Rhodes-Taylor

If the sector is to tackle the existential threats facing the world, it must rediscover its practical idealism about itself, says Nigel Thrift