Opinion

Ideology is preventing the UCU et al from appreciating the private sector's diversity and its fair treatment of staff, argues Aldwyn Cooper

The impact agenda rewards unoriginal thinkers and threatens to snuff out the bright 'Sparks' who could change the world, warns Bill Amos

Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement

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By favouring grandstanding over academics' worries for the profession and their future, the UCU risks irrelevance

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is bewitched by the methods of an Arkansas teacher

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Social scientists and scientists will serve the public best by working together to present their findings, Alice Bell argues

With working hours and unemployment on the rise, Harriet Bradley argues that it's time to consider the logical alternative: job-sharing

Offering library access to alumni and independent researchers helps to keep a university at the heart of its community, says Susan Gibbons

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By collaborating to provide careers advice to teenagers, universities will help to broaden outreach, says Tessa Stone

Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies

If the University of Wales survives the calls for closure, its leaders need to clarify its purpose, cautions alumnus Deian Hopkin

Research remains male-dominated and the equality guidelines proposed for the REF don't go far enough, says Carole Leathwood

University rankings are inapplicable to the developing world and risk doing damage there, argues Adam Habib

Journal owners want academics to work with them towards the shared goal of furthering and disseminating research, says Graham Taylor

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The longer one wears the crown, the more tyrannical he becomes - a senior academic offers a theory of vice-chancellors' behaviour

An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson

Adjust for population, GDP and funding, and US dominance disappears, Howard Hotson argues. And so does the case for neoliberal university reform

The use of journal rankings and citations data throughout the REF would hamstring innovation, argues Hugh Willmott

We must protect widening-participation funding for the sake of the disadvantaged, disenfranchised and disillusioned, says Martin Bean

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Sally Feldman takes umbrage with those who decry student orientation week

Harry Potter a metaphor for higher education? Kevin Fong explains - almost

Help usher in universal open access - stop giving free labour to publishers that lock research away, says Michael Taylor

The top-ranked universities allow their scholars the most freedom, a lesson many governments have yet to learn, warns Terence Karran

A specialist journalistic organisation could allow academics to explain their work without distortion, suggests Peter Geoghegan

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So the UK tells foreign students with its visa regime. Australia once did too, but it has changed its tune to hang on to a rich trade

Anachronistic academic awards for students can pose headaches for long-suffering staff, writes Adrian Furnham

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Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’

Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation

The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald

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US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

It is folly to emulate a US higher education system that, according to OECD figures, is failing so many of its young citizens

Studying abroad is of great value and the cost of UK degrees will shortly become prohibitive. Peter Brady identifies a dangerous mix

We live in a connected global environment, Graeme Harper says, so why does the sector act like it's 1911, not 2011?

Clegg and Cable offer nothing new, just a return to Depression politics. They have sown the wind, says Simon Lee, and will reap the whirlwind

Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.

As poor steering threatens to cut off the supply of homegrown STEM graduates, coalition policy looks set to crash and burn

Widening participation needs reconceptualising for a new age, say John Butcher, Rohini Corfield and John Rose-Adams

After the turbulence of the past year, business secretary Vince Cable sets out the government's vision for the future of higher education

The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben

Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?

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Jeremy Black is making a stand against the grandiose claims made by far too many blurbs on the back of academic books