Opinion

To maintain vital internationalisation, US institutions might have to partner with industry to expand their overseas footprints, says Fernando Reimers

Higher education funding in the UK may still be inadequate, but cost-cutting cannot come at the expense of social mobility, says Fiona Devine

Scholars who win foreign scholarships will have no jobs to return to in Afghanistan if they decide to take them up, says an Afghan academic

The new commission must answer the big questions without delay and consult universities, say Jan Palmowski and Kurt Deketelaere

We can no longer deem as educated a student who knows nothing about statistics, data analytics or computing, says Daniel Diermeier

The financial woes can’t be solved without job losses; the key issue is to ensure they set the university up for a realistic long-term future, says Malcolm Prowle

But their long-term sustainability needs a clearer political strategy, including reflection on whether there are too many, says Luc Sels

Avoiding layoffs is the issue of the hour. The UCU would do better to prioritise negotiations on pay-related issues such as workload, says Jak Peake

Better to revise the previous government’s tuition fee hikes than redirect taxpayers’ money into wealthy graduates’ pockets, says Maxwell Yong

As questions about the size and shape of UK higher education persist, debates about the part number controls could play are making a comeback

Encouraged to use ChatGPT to help them with the hard stuff, my students let it do all their thinking for them. Maybe I should give up, says Dan Sarofian-Butin

Burnout is rife in an era when the traditional attractions of academia to obsessives are diluted by many new duties, observes Joseph Cronin

Enthusiasts claim that authentic tasks boost work-readiness, promote inclusion and diminish cheating, but the evidence remains unclear, says Tim Fawns

The controversy over Dhankhar’s poor choice of words has overshadowed the wisdom of calling for poorer Indians to be better informed, says Pushkar

As universities are encouraged to undertake ever more local engagement, my four Bs framework will help them think it through, says Craig Jeffrey

A tactical takeover might have been easier in the short term, but Adelaide University will be better for being a marriage of equals, say David Lloyd and Peter Høj

Misappropriation of junior colleagues’ ideas is a betrayal. Requiring them to wait years for redress adds insult to injury, says Wyn Evans

Universities often say they are pursuing transnational education for both love and money. But that can make for a strategic muddle, warns Stephen Thomas

Political interventions on a host of issues suggest marketisation’s opponents are wrong to see neoliberalism as the root of all evil, says Gerbrand Tholen

The rules should quash the idea that a formal investigation is the only way to take action on disclosures or rumours of abuse by staff, says Anna Bull