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Next year¡¯s review must consider why the equality charter now views ¡®gender as a spectrum¡¯, in addition to questions of cost and effectiveness, says Lucy Hunter Blackburn

Universities should reflect upon the intellectual life and sacrifices of South Africa¡¯s student activists as they mark milestones, says Mashupye Maserumule 

Call for an ¡®immediate ceasefire¡¯ is scarcely better than the ¡®stop arming Ukraine¡¯ motion that led to resignations a year ago, says Christopher Phelps

Vice-chancellors can often overestimate the savings from institutional mergers and underestimate their complex challenges, says Malcolm Prowle

Universities keep being told that the status quo is not sustainable. But the new Labour government also has a responsibility to act and change tack

Strategic silence of vice-chancellors within our national debate is a mistake when the quest for truth is so central to academia, argues Sir Geoff Mulgan

Working-class undergraduates who juggle paid work with their studies are finding it difficult to devote long hours to their course, says Randall Whittaker

From Putin to Orb¨¢n, autocrats are using postcolonial theory to flood reading lists with ¡®overlooked¡¯ native authors in a drive to further xenophobic identity politics, explain Karolina Koziura, Daniel Palm and Adrian Matus

As an academic, I have found my best holidays to be anything but a vacation from intellectual life, says Lincoln Allison

Refugee student Naweed Zafary recalls harrowing scenes as the Taliban took power and thousands fought for places on the last flights out of Afghanistan

Universities of all types are embracing the earn-while-you-learn qualifications but government can do more too, says Exeter¡¯s vice-chancellor Lisa Roberts

Speculation over imagined backstabbings and betrayals is rife but the joining of two of Australia¡¯s universities is more of a meeting of minds than clash of clans, insist vice-chancellors Peter H?j and David Lloyd

Degrees taught in Hindi might play well with Modi fans but this shift risks IITs¡¯ global reputation for producing outstanding graduates, says Eldho Mathews

Research, innovation and education are recognised in the European Commission president¡¯s manifesto, but let¡¯s assert their wider relevance, says Jan Palmowski

The OfS¡¯ approach is evolving, partly reflecting the fact that a course¡¯s long-term value is not always immediately obvious, says John Blake

A-level results day celebrations belie a vicious spiral of demand for degrees that damages students and society, says Paul Wiltshire 

As a loss-maker, research is under pressure as fears of insolvency rise. But universities must do all they can to shore up a key element of their impact 

We need a mechanism whereby academics can build a public reputation as referees and receive career benefits for doing so, says Randy Robertson

Rather than lament student attitudes, we should ask if meaningful exchanges of ideas in class are still possible, say Mikael And¨¦hn and Alan Bradshaw