Opinion

Academics are only revealing their own biases if they believe the television presenter’s behaviour represents working-class values, says Joe Baden

Drawn-out complaints procedures that aren’t resolved before visas expire are unethical – and a poor advertisement for UK HE, says Sanaz Raji 

Our evidence-led recommendations will challenge universities – but within the parameters of the possible, says Nigel Carrington

Social scientists must work hard to verify their conclusions. Too many that do not are rewarded anyway, says Martyn Hammersley

We can’t just concede that usage is ethical if within universities’ narrowly conceived rules. What about the pursuit of truth, asks Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin

There are plenty of global examples of how academic expertise could be better applied to companies’ real-life skills deficits, says Sarah Gordon

A columnist has dared to voice the blasphemy that spending huge sums on higher education doesn’t always open new doors, writes Pushkar

The country’s leaders must recognise that emigration is not a betrayal but a symptom of deeper societal issues that must be addressed, says Roohola Ramezani

The political freedom currently exists for Palestinians to debate how to build back better. But it may be short-lived, warns Bill Williamson

Centres of Research Excellence, officially launched today, will also strengthen the UK’s leading position in biomedical sciences, says Patrick Chinnery

The far-right president rails against academics’ supposed sense that they are superior. A scholar forced to sell books to make ends meet feels anything but

Managers should take inspiration from student organising, but we need more than diversity window-dressing, say Alexander Hensby and Barbara Adewuni

The choice is to innovate or, potentially, to die. Focusing on customer experience and tech is the best way to avoid the latter, says Eric Skipper

The year is ending with an ongoing permacrisis for higher education. Political rhetoric has improved but the sector still needs a vision for its future

Publishers used to recognise that theirs was a relationships business. But now the road to immortality is much lonelier, says Adrian Furnham

We’re already not as susceptible as we were, but the threat posed by deepfakes has not gone away, say Andrew Chadwick and Nick Jennings

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

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

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