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Debates about international student numbers are highly politicised. But the contribution they make is far more nuanced than any statistics allow

If A-level grades are only ¡®reliable to one grade either way¡¯, where does that leave admissions officers deciding on borderline cases, asks Dennis Sherwood

We must reform a science culture that sometimes seems to value impact and quantity over importance and quality, say Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall

Unless something is done, teaching and learning risks becoming a completely inauthentic spectacle, says Dan Sarofian-Butin

As attentions turn to manifestos for the coming election, higher education should ramp up communication with MPs and ministers, says Anne Milton

While domestic student numbers are declining, India¡¯s vast underserved student cohort offer solutions for both nations, says Kyuseok Kim

The mutual suspicion of autonomous bureaucracies ignores the multifarious needs of living, learning, maturing young people, says Harvey Graff

There is an important place for such training, but it is markedly at odds with many of the established values of the university, says Ian Pace

The impact agenda has been kind to me, but its obsession with science and growth are huge flaws. Time to get out, says Rupert Read

Copying others¡¯ work is theft and corrupts the literature. Concern for culprits¡¯ welfare should not preclude punishment, says an academic

By distributing both credit and blame where it is due, initiatives such as CRediT can help deter research fraud, says Paul Ayris 

In the first of a series of articles charting the merger of the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide, the institutions¡¯ vice-chancellors, David Lloyd and Peter H?j, set out why, after a series of false starts over the years, the amalgamation finally looks set to go ahead

It is easy to be consumed by the daily addressing of students¡¯ needs but, for their sake, faculty need to hold the line, say Colleen Wynn and Elizabeth Ziff 

Research into changing patterns of biodiversity across the globe is vital, but it also matters how institutions manage their own land, says Sasha Roseneil

Jeopardising local universities with rhetoric about rip-off degrees is the last thing the UK needs. A new funding settlement is vital, says Martin Jones 

The fact that most graduates credit their professional success to their degrees is a neat counter to the government¡¯s rip-off rhetoric, says Vivienne Stern

There is near-universal dismay among scientists over continued delays to UK association to Horizon Europe. It is time to replace bean-counting with vision

Once it becomes common knowledge that a UK master¡¯s degree is worthless, the sector will be in trouble, says an anonymous academic

The new rules are welcome, but change will only truly occur if institutions finally get over their obsession with publications, says the Hidden REF committee

Our message is to hold the policy line. The levy has taken time to bed in, but it would be premature to tear it up and start again, say Chris Husbands and Natalie Day

Biden's debt forgiveness plan may have been blocked but everyone will suffer if graduates can't afford to spend, says F. King Alexander

Various methods exist to help students decide which courses will pay off, but all should be taken with a grain of salt, say David Levy and Harvey Graff

Permanent contracts, lighter workloads and higher salaries would boost the flagging prestige of Ukraine¡¯s academy, says Alexander Kostyuk 

The interim report¡¯s focus on engagement with Australian communities risks overlooking obligations to the rest of the world, says Craig Jeffrey

Working together to tackle specific teaching and research needs could seed high-quality research institutes, say Diya Dutt and Sudarshan Saha

Employers might find it easier to reach agreement with a less politically skewed membership body, says an anonymous academic 

It is proving difficult to accommodate even the fraction of South Sudanese students who have already made it back home, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Perhaps the EU could give additional assurances that it would apply corrections if the UK won significantly less funding than it put in, suggests Jan Palmowski

International students contribute nearly ?12 billion a year to the government¡¯s priority areas for levelling up, says James Pitman 

Former Oxford v-c Louise Richardson is wrong to dismiss the need for a free speech tsar in a massified system, says Ian Pace 

The government would do much better to help educational institutions understand and prepare for future labour market shifts, says Rosalind Gill

Such talk replaces pride of place with ¡®know your place¡¯. But if you want to see levelling up made flesh, come and meet our graduates, says John Raftery 

The unravelling of internationalisation and academic freedom is likely to come with a repurposing of research to military ends, says Maria Yudkevich

Improving benefits and lowering contributions must not mitigate against the pension scheme¡¯s ability to better ride out future storms, says Kate Barker

I want my research to fuel change and make a positive impact on the world, and I do not want to suffer in the process, says Heidi Green

Ethics committees should further a culture of research ethics rather than act as judge and jury, say Yoann Bazin and ?lise Goiseau

Regardless of its merits, the bill barring state agencies from boycotting Israel cannot apply to universities, says Graham Virgo

Race-based admissions may be banned, but legacy students and those from elite schools still enjoy huge, unfair advantages, says Aman Majmudar

The biggest step backwards over the last 50 years was supporters¡¯ retreat from equal opportunity to a focus on ill-defined ¡®diversity¡¯, says Harvey Graff

Use of the CSAT is likely to increase US enrolment of South Koreans but could bode ill for some of the latter¡¯s domestic institutions, says Kyuseok Kim

As financial pressure takes its toll, the Oxford vice-chancellor¡¯s clarity and commitment to the health of the whole sector show a way forward

Commitments to flip individual journals have not proved to be the game changer that Springer Nature had hoped, says Steven Inchcoombe

The ban on race-conscious admissions does not override the need to monitor progress in equity and social mobility, says W. Carson Byrd

Subsidising domestic with international provision would not be tolerated in healthcare. How long before it unravels in HE, asks Mark Corver

When faced with a real, full-bore crisis, this generation of supposed snowflakes just got on with it and coped better than I did, says Joe Moran

Based solely on a Turnitin report, Emily was condemned for using ChatGPT to write her essay. Except that she hadn¡¯t, writes Daniel Sokol

Ambitions to boost institutional profiles will fail unless academics are motivated, trained and rewarded to take the initiative, says Sheldon Jacobson

Doctoral students drive Iranian science, but the country¡¯s low spending means that they often lack access to basic resources, says Roohola Ramezani 

It isn¡¯t perfect, but data and analytics could capture the disadvantages applicants face and the diversity they may represent, says Carlo Ratti

When Covid closed borders, universities¡¯ over-reliance on international student fees looked like disaster. Are they any less exposed today?

The new REF rules allow greater scope to aim for the (four) stars. But who will embrace the risk of crashing to Earth, asks Matthew Flinders

Some incidents are inevitable, but, as all security guards know, de-escalation is a lot less painful than the alternative, says George Bass

For some students, a little more understanding of their difficult individual circumstances goes a very long way, says Hannah Forsyth

When passable texts, images and music can be automatically generated, the creative industries may need fewer, better graduates, says Ian Pace

Scientists and technologists must participate in a genuinely collective project to regulate technological development, says Nicholas Dirks

Collective effort can combat misinformation, respond to climate change and harness the power of AI for the good of mankind, says Rocky Tuan

Reaction to the new rules has been mixed, but they promise to fix the toxic aspects of research culture, says Cat Davies

Challenges for practice research reflect broader issues around knowledge production and academic hierarchies, say Bill Balaskas and Katia Chornik

Graduates who can make connections across time and disciplines would be more stimulated, in both the workplace and wider life, says Harvey Graff

Researchers can help policymakers get to grips with what is and isn¡¯t possible in areas such as hydrogen fuel production, says Tracey Brown