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Ronald Schuchard looks at how Eliot¡¯s time at the University of London shaped his work

This week, Times ÖйúAƬ is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Nigel Lockett talks about being a dyslexic professor

UK universities may be among the most autonomous, but they need international cooperation to make their voices heard, says Paul Boyle

Academics should get out of their bubbles and engage, not deride, says Rachel Carey

Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane

As universities rely on multiple income streams to stay afloat, private money comes with caveats and portfolios must balance profit and principle

Chinese students¡¯ calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros 

Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don¡¯t all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton

Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D¡¯Agostino

Sir Keith Burnett writes from the US on the country¡¯s mixed ¨C and sometimes misleading ¨C immigration history

Claire Taylor¡¯s approach to change in her institution has been inspired by the French president¡¯s rise to power

The definition of a university called for by the Lords never really materialised, writes Gill Evans

Bashir Makhoul tells of his inspiring journey from a tiny village in Palestine to university leadership

Forget affirmative action, says Sami Mikhail; universities are right to recruit on academic merit

UK universities rely on international researchers, say Susan Guthrie and Catie Lichten, but is the pressure on researchers to be mobile too great?

Conservative politicians emboldened by the president¡¯s election could exact the heaviest toll on ÖйúAƬ, says Matthew Hartley

While not all student-supervisor relationships end in disaster, permitting them infringes women¡¯s right to education, participation and a safe work environment, say five female academics 

By focusing on collaboration as much as funding levels, technological progress can spearhead national prosperity and self-confidence, says Angus Horner

Universities must not be complacent about freedom of speech, and need to ensure students use it to drive change, says Bill Rammell 

Women¡¯s pay still lags behind men¡¯s, and a lack of transparency around salaries makes it all the harder to address

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto takes issue with a claim that the EU has been playing the sovereignty card in Brexit negotiations

Yusra Mouzughi on the many dilemmas faced when recruiting staff to a brand-new university

On International Jazz Day, Mark Laver hits back at the US government¡¯s views on arts education

Baroness Amos and Toyin Saraki on why Soas is using its centenary to highlight the importance of leveraging female education to improve development

John Morgan looks at the political rewards and risks for Labour on student and sector funding

Reaction as the HE and Research Bill ends its journey through Parliament

Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orb¨¢n¡¯s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze

In an age of political civil war, the question of why the Right is so under-represented in academia is important

Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin

Students who grew up disinviting ideological difference on Facebook will naturally want to do the same on campus, says Darren Linvill

Universities should not be neutral about attempts to ¡®no platform¡¯ speakers. They must defend students¡¯ right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller

A protest campaign in support of the Hungarian university is in full swing, explains Jan Kubik

Scholars with working-class backgrounds are ideally placed to change how academics are perceived, says Stefanie Stiles

Matthew Reisz reflects on what the two remaining presidential candidates might mean for ÖйúAƬ

Stranded abroad, South Sudan¡¯s international students need help, writes Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Carnival atmosphere at the London March for Science as events take place across the world

Covering interview travel expenses creates financial hardships for early career academics, says Rachel Yoho

John Morgan looks at reports PM may ¡®soften¡¯ stance on students and net migration figures 

While some fear a dystopian outcome in which private innovators bypass the university, others are more sanguine about the potential threats to the sector

Serious novels promote the trust and people skills that societies need. They should be required reading for all degrees, says Peter Taylor-Gooby

As tactics to maximise rankings become common knowledge and fluctuation diminishes, universities will re-focus on a diversifying array of missions, says Merlin Crossley

The work of 500 scientists transformed the 20th century. Universities and funders must do more to make certain that the flow of groundbreaking discoveries continues, says Donald Braben 

The Naylor report will test the willingness of Justin Trudeau¡¯s government to overhaul research support, writes Creso S¨¢

Some aspects of university reform ¨C including parts of the TEF ¨C could ¡®turn to dust¡¯, says Nick Hillman

John Morgan looks at how the HE Bill's future, the impact of Brexit and Labour's fee plans are all election issues for universities

Sir Keith Burnett returns from Australia with some astute observations on two far-from-perfect ÖйúAƬ systems

Sir Anthony Seldon on why he chose to gather leaders from smaller colleges across the world to engage in 'deep-level' thinking

Jessa Rogers looks at the disappointing picture for Indigenous scholars in the academy

Supervisors should be trained to spot the first sign of a problem, says Chris Havergal

It's not just about papers. Running a university in Papua New Guinea has cast academic impact in a more exotic light for John Warren

A haberdasher who has never heard of a handkerchief is indicative of a whole world catching a cold, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

Data, and the increasingly sophisticated way it is martialled, has enabled remarkable improvements in graduation rates and quality of education

The American-Hungarian institution proves that learning through diversity is not an impossible dream, says Marvin Lazerson

While universities in parts of the West worry about immigration crackdowns, favourable political winds are allowing Canada¡¯s institutions to flourish

University of Gibraltar vice-chancellor Daniella Tilbury reflects on how Brexit negotiations are awakening old insecurities

The world is dotted with institutions that have strong US links, but they often have domestic opponents, who may be watching the case of CEU closely

Are university ¡®bias response teams¡¯ jeopardising free speech on campus? asks Jemimah Steinfeld

Promoting social responsibility among students should be key to universities¡¯ missions in the modern age, says Timothy W. Tong

Horizon 2020 could have more success getting technologies off the ground if it does not neglect the basic work that sparks breakthroughs, say Geert de Snoo, Floor Frederiks, Peter Lievens and Katrien Maes

US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia