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Sir Keith Burnett reflects on the future of academia and innovation in the UK and China

Recent university rankings results provide some much-needed discomfort in Japan, says Devin Stewart

Glen Wright reveals the best #AcademicsWithCats of 2016

A ¡®professionalised¡¯ police needs to maintain core skills, says this police constable

Billy Bryan and Josh Berlyne are not convinced by the UK government¡¯s doctoral loans plan

Mark Readman offers a guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed

For the first time, says the UK¡¯s universities minister Jo Johnson, academic freedom and institutional autonomy will be enshrined in UK law

That students debate how to treat campus memorials to figures linked with unsavoury historical events is perhaps a fitting legacy

To help manage their expanding activities, institutions require new corporate leadership personnel, Sarah Shaw says

Off to an academic conference? Helena Ledmyr offers some tricks to getting the most out of attending a scholarly gathering

Positive discrimination helps students more than it hinders them, find Dennis Epple and Lowell Taylor

Martin Hall on how Brown University is confronting its controversial past

Kate Williams looks at the latest figures and concludes that much more needs to be done

Speaking a foreign language remains vitally important in the Brexit era, says Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Despite concern about the use of predicted grades, Mary Curnock Cook believes the way students apply for university works well

Junior academics can access services without physically visiting premises, writes Holly Else

It¡¯s folly to make my language modules obligatory, says a grande ¨¦cole lecturer confronting students¡¯ boredom and contempt

Martha J. Kanter on making equality of opportunity a reality for ¡®the top 100 per cent¡¯ of students

Physical stores on and off campus are facing down threats such as Amazon¡¯s Berkeley book ¡®hangar¡¯ by evolving, argues Andrew Thacker

Few disagree that more ÖйúAƬ is a good thing, but it¡¯s tricky to balance universities¡¯ costs and manageable fees

Overleaf¡¯s John Hammersley on what drove his doctorate and transition from universities to industry

Stereotypes and myths around sexual violence still hold currency among students, says Stephen Pihlaja

Measuring entrepreneurialism must take account of individual academics, say Robert Tijssen and Alfredo Yegros 

University staff may often write letters of recommendation in a very gendered way, warns Dame Athene Donald

Exploitative employment model is UK ÖйúAƬ¡¯s ¡®dirty little secret¡¯, says Sally Hunt

On-campus support for those in crisis is desperately underfunded, dangerously limited and even offputting

Sandy Grant urges educators to support students¡¯ rejection of prejudice ¨C and call out language that defends the indefensible

For British science to thrive rather than just survive, EU partnerships and global recruitment remain key to fruitful collisions of concepts, says Ian Walmsley

The male chauvinism faced by female political leaders is not worlds away from that too often encountered in academia

Sir Keith Burnett asks if criticising your country means academics are unpatriotic

Fabrizio Trifir¨° explores the difficulties of quality assurance across borders

Web 3.0 could revolutionise the way ÖйúAƬ is delivered, but will it be used as a force for good, asks Martin Hall

If the government won¡¯t demonstrate the value and importance of university, then vice-chancellors need to step up and do it, say Paul Woodgates and Mike Boxall

We have all the elements needed to make online courses succeed, but institutional inertia at well-established universities stymies progress, argues Laurence Brockliss

We have to do more to ensure British-Bangladeshi girls don¡¯t fear they¡¯ll be isolated at university, says Sally Brian

Africa¡¯s newest country is fertile territory for post-conflict research and more, but they need Western help, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok

In the TACTICS nations, just as in the UK and the US, universities and democracy depend on each other

Angus Horner believes that investment in the Golden Triangle will give the UK a competitive edge

John Morgan looks at signals of Home Office backtracking

Pam Tatlow on the recent parliamentary debate of the ÖйúAƬ Bill

Maddalaine Ansell, chief executive of the University Alliance, has hopes and fears ahead of Philip Hammond's speech

A more tech-savvy approach to student recruitment could save institutions more than just time, says Marguerite Dennis

Requesting a log of daily activity means that trust between the institution and the scholar has broken down, says Toby Miller

Lecturers have long been accused of indoctrinating students with their liberal views, and the grade-obsessed students of today feel the same way, say Will Grant and Darren Linvill

Ian Myson wants universities to internationalise their students in preparation for the working world

Who can enter whose washrooms in US public universities should be a matter for kindness and common sense, not ideology, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

As scholars in the UK and US mull the future after Trump¡¯s triumph and Brexit, academics must focus on making society¡¯s walls fall

The government¡¯s partnership with universities has been good for all; Anthony Monaco hopes the new administration will strengthen it

Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit foresee a bleak future for America¡¯s global excellence and competitiveness

Nick Hillman welcomes the government¡¯s concessions but says there is a long way to go before this bill becomes law

Claire Taylor wants ¡®education is never wasted¡¯ to become the mantra for a ÖйúAƬ sector that is struggling to communicate its value to the public

Despite having some questions about how the bill will be implemented, Douglas Blackstock believes it is a force for good

We must change the perception that universities are bastions of inequality, say Jan Fook and Fiona Ross

How did non-researchers end up with the power to determine the impact of academic work? asks Helen Lees

John Morgan looks at what Trump U fraud claims could mean for US president-elect Donald Trump

Matthew Reisz reflects on how films can help engage the public with academic work on topics ranging from Chinese pop music to climate change

It¡¯s not just EU nationals that universities should worry about losing, says Timothy Devinney, and a shrinking pound won¡¯t help

Paul Ashwin takes aim at ¡®common sense¡¯ arguments about the link between contact hours and pedagogic excellence

What links the anxious, fearful undergraduate and the anxious, fearful academic? Pervasive precarity, argues Matthew Vernon

As push-pull factors exert their force on scholars in the UK, the Article 50 ruling buys universities more time to argue their case against a shifting EU backdrop