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How can more degrees be the solution to urban deprivation when poor areas offer no graduate careers? asks Robert Hesketh

Jo Johnson¡¯s support for free expression unravels when it comes to Palestine, says Jonathan Rosenhead

A precise breakdown of foreign learners¡¯ contributions to all areas and sectors of British life could help finally move the group out of the net migration count

The Office for Budget Responsibility¡¯s methodology is of incredibly low quality, says Nick Hillman

Bias in assessing submissions is inevitable and damaging. Anonymisation is the least bad solution, says Graham Farrell

Sir Anthony Seldon explains why he was pleased to see Toby Young resign from the Office for Students, despite initially applauding the appointment  

Nick Hillman reflects on Jo Johnson's eventful two-and-a-half years as minister for universities and science 

Chris Parr looks at the issues that THE's Twitter followers think the new universities minister should be tackling

Ahead of our Asia Universities Summit, Sir Keith Burnett looks into the future for UK ÖйúAƬ and sees the growing importance of China 

There is no evidence that the REF process encourages academics to rush out more research of a lower quality, says Steven Hill

The MBA is no longer a qualification with ¡®near mythical status¡¯ offered by only a handful of elite academic institutions ¨C so does it still have value? asks Fran Johnson

Universities have a big role to play in counteracting the nationalist sentiment emerging around the world, Amit Chakma says ahead of 2018 Asia Universities Summit

Phil Baty on how THE's annual reputation survey informs its World University Rankings

Home Office threats to deport her may have been an ¡®unfortunate error¡¯, but Eva Johanna Holmberg is still wary about the future

Time to cut down on sarcasm, Buzzfeed quizzes, references to neoliberalism and ad hoc usage of Latinate and French phrases, says Emma Rees

Most human beings think well enough, and students are no exception. They just need help to express it within academic conventions, says Stuart Wrigley

The uncapped system had many benefits but its cost was ultimately too high for politicians to bear, writes Andrew Norton

Funding, Brexit and the growing power of China are among key issues to watch in 2018, say sector experts ¨C but there is a glimmer of optimism, too

The appointment of Young to the OfS board is upsetting but unsurprising, says Lisa Mckenzie

Claire Taylor looks at how UK universities can rebuild trust

Simon Marginson looks ahead at what 2018 has in store for academia in the UK and further afield 

Martin Hamilton on four edtech trends to look out for over the next 12 months

UUK chief executive Alistair Jarvis outlines how he hopes the HE sector will work with the new OfS

An open access deal between German authors in journals published by Elsevier could be problematic, say Alex Holcombe and Bj?rn Brembs

Jana Bacevic takes a look through the history books to assess how the government¡¯s recent announcement on two-year degrees could pan out

Chris Parr runs through 11 of the best 2017 Christmas videos from university leaders

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam looks at restrictions to academic freedom in what he describes as an age of ¡®psycho-nationalism¡¯

Vice-chancellors¡¯ salaries in Australia are the highest in the anglophone world, and are attracting sharp criticism, says Gavin Moodie

An annual scrap for survival in English universities¡¯ elite grouping could make for compelling TV viewing, suggests James Tooley 

Without QR funding, the UK research base would be like a Lego set with only one type of brick, write Sarah Chaytor and Graeme Reid

The past year has seemed one of almost daily shocks and surprises for ÖйúAƬ, which THE has divulged, documented and dissected

Minimum compliance with publication requirements is the best recipe for job satisfaction, says Mike Marinetto

Chris Parr reveals the 25 Times ÖйúAƬ stories that received the most views during the last 12 months

Got some last minute scholarly Christmas shopping to do? Glen Wright has got your back

Clare McGlynn is not surprised that the UK was overlooked as a focus country after a successful EU funding bid

It may be five years since Moocs went mainstream, but Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy believe they still have the potential to reach the hard-to-reach

The rapid increase in the number of unconditional offers being made to school-leavers is cause for concern, says Mike Nicholson

Group CEO of the Universities Superannuation Scheme Bill Galvin outlines the processes and procedures involved in the pension scheme valuation

Pay awards to vice-chancellors would not meet the requirements laid down in the Corporate Governance Code, says Stuart Farquhar

Universities hoping to submit staff who have already left are going to have to work hard on maintaining goodwill, says Robert Dingwall

Controversy in Canada over support for blue-skies research would diminish if more researchers took Pasteur¡¯s approach, says Creso S¨¢

Academic travel is hard work, but destinations that are sunny and picturesque have their consolations, says Emily Michelson

The mantra that research is loss-making is a convenient fiction used to draw more money to the centres of universities, say Peter Coveney and Christopher Greenwell    

Outrage over vice-chancellors¡¯ remuneration has focused on individuals ¨C but the buck stops with governors

Without action, the UK might end up in the situation of funding both subscriptions and article-processing charges on an ongoing basis, writes Helen Blanchett

Mark Jones looks at what happens to the league tables if you isolate the World University Rankings¡¯ teaching metrics

Longer courses could mean bigger loans, which would eat into the government¡¯s trumpeted savings, says Nick Hillman

Rich Sullivan-Jones on why the National Audit Office looked into ÖйúAƬ, and what its report tells us about the HE ¡®market¡¯

Phil Baty asked his Twitter followers what they thought of government plans for two-year undergraduate degrees, and they did not hold back

Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review

John Gill on today¡¯s NAO report, which claims that students are, in effect, victims of ¡®mis-selling¡¯ by ÖйúAƬ institutions

Although satisfaction and learning are not the same thing, universities need to be better at explaining the value that they bring, says Will Pooley

There are many hidden costs associated with PhD study, writes Alfredo Cumerma, particularly if you want to land that dream job on graduation

Monographs typically constitute a scholar¡¯s greatest achievement, but REF strategists discourage their production, says Bruce Macfarlane

Institutions must be willing to meet the new world of populism and protectionism halfway, says Matthew Andrews

The recent downfalls of Dame Glynis Breakwell and Grace Mugabe are very different stories, but both reveal some age-old traits, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

Inequality remains a pernicious problem at our elite universities. Failure to tackle it will have negative consequences for individuals and society at large

It has been a tough year for ÖйúAƬ, but we must not forget how universities transform their students¡¯ life chances, says Maddalaine Ansell

Pam Tatlow looks at the ¡®heroes¡¯ and ¡®villains¡¯ of the v-c salary row, and finds some unfortunate trends

Gabriel Paquette calls on universities to meet 'aggressive' tax reforms with a 'forceful, evidence-informed response'