Opinion

Campaigners who want to erase the controversial figures from universities’ pasts are wrong, say Niall McCrae and Roger Watson

The UK-US research relationship post-Brexit must work for both countries, says Darragh Murnane

The targeting of Turkey’s top academics, in the country’s most established institutions, has caused outrage, writes Gulcin Ozkan

John Walley on how healthcare research must bring practical benefits, not just scholarly pride

Living next to the US is like sleeping with an elephant. But will the election of a divisive president see more Americans pack their trunks and trump, trump, trump up to Canada? asks Glen Jones

Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit consider what forms internationalisation may take as the US and Europe retreat from world stage

Rebecca Lave describes the campaign to preserve crucial environmental data under threat from the Trump administration

Teaching is being looked at seriously by the government, but those providing still feel overlooked and underappreciated

Applying lean principles can help universities find quick, creative solutions to pressing problems, says Madison Sandy

Higher education has an important role in healing divides based on the distortion of religious beliefs, say Sami Everett and Ed Kessler

Toby Miller on the lessons that other countries could teach universities in the UK

The time is right for Europe's universities to make Chinese connections, say Ka Ho Mok and Jin Jiang

Adrian Furnham makes his case for a discerning approach to philanthropy

Anna Piela asks what Trump may mean for scholars of the Islamic faith

Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else

How do you defeat Nazis and liars? Focus on the people in earshot, says eminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt

If Trump and Brexit are the problem, universities are part of the solution, says Sally Hunt. But we must do better than we have

Our age of unenlightenment demands that institutions share their intellectual and moral capital with the communities around them

Catastrophes are likely to be more swift, global and devastating in our interconnected world, says Martin Rees, so scientists must join forces to keep us safe

UK universities should follow the example of FTSE companies, says Ruth Sealy

John Morgan looks at appointment of former McKinsey, Pearson and government education adviser

Look to Canada and northern Europe for lessons on reducing inequality, says Simon Marginson

Dame Athene Donald on how the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy had to reissue a job advert for UKRI board members

Teacher training reform offers big opportunities for Wales, says Claire Taylor

The new CEO of UKRI, Sir Mark Walport, says a shake-up of UK research funding is needed if the country is to remain internationally competitive

Key figures from the sector have their say on ‘worrying’ figures

Pericles Lewis, founding president of Yale-NUS college, on a turbulent time for the liberal arts

Female academics’ feedback on issues such as ‘acceptable’ norms reveals a sector far from its ideals, say Laurie Cohen and Jo Duberley

Has scholarly pessimism helped fuel anti-expert rhetoric? Panglossian we are not, but when hope fails, there’s humour, says Shahidha Bari

Top universities recognise that groundbreaking ideas don’t all develop and stay in one country, and neither do those who create and study them

Tired of the lies and back-patting that CVs are made of, Roger Watson eyes an alternative with a long list of virtues

Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton on why he signed an anti-Trump petition, and why universities are partly to blame for Trump’s rise

Warwick vice-chancellor Stuart Croft on why his university reluctantly joined the ‘flawed’ teaching excellence framework

The UK must raise the issue of Turkey's appalling treatment of academia, says Mehmet Ugur

Evidence suggests you can teach students to spot fake stories, say Joseph Kahne and Benjamin Bowyer

Jeffrey Beall’s blacklist of predatory publishers has disappeared, and so too should ideas about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ journals, argues Martin Parker

Nadya Ali outlines the problems that impose three demands on the sector

As the US wrestles with a strongman premier, could more authoritarian leadership help universities battered by funding woes and disciplinary tyranny?

A scholar of the past returns to a Britain he thought he knew – and finds himself averting his gaze in despair. Felipe Fernández-Armesto mourns

Theresa May's industrial strategy must address the gap between education and skills, writes Andy Westwood

During a hospital stay, Emily Michelson learned why the humanities and sciences are in no way opposites

Universities need to adapt to stay relevant, says Gordon Redding

With wit and frankness, rebel scientist Tommaso Dorigo has spent a dozen years telling it like it is in his blog about research life. He speaks to Karen Shook

Universities teach attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning, which 1930s Germany, 1990s Rwanda and now today’s US show us are vital, argues Donald E. Hall

Social science must return to qualitative research to understand social and political shifts, say Pamela Prickett and Elaine Howard Ecklund

Existentialism may now seem more relevant to philosophy undergraduates, but a woeful John Kaag shares their mood of blank despair 

What is a university? The Lords debate on the HE bill asked this very question and reminds us that in 2017, clarifying their purpose is more vital than ever

Duncan Ross on the correlation between country income and university performance

There is little sector-wide motivation to address the attainment gap between white and BME students, says Min Rodriguez

Theresa May has hinted she wants to continue research links, but it is unclear why the EU would agree to maintain the UK’s current deal

Kate Riegle van West had to battle to bring her circus life and her academic life together

Nick Hillman on the possible implications of the government’s defeat in the Lords

James McCrostie was shocked to discover the extent of ‘predatory conferences’, but even more shocked by those abetting them

China’s pressure on its academics to toe an ideological line will increase if Trump focuses only on business, says Tao Zhang

In an era of post-truth politics, academics and their research still have a vital role to play in influencing policy, says Graeme Reid

As campus fortunes fluctuate with changing oil, currency and tuition prices, a Brexit bounce is a possibility. The state can steer the academy towards it

Jim Knight on the early committee stages of the HE and Research Bill in the Lords

Lord Stevenson on the problems facing the Higher Education and Research Bill, which was amended on its first day in committee in the Lords