Opinion

Dragan Gasevic looks at how learning analytics can be used to support the student experience as a tool for learning gain

Ahead of the THE Innovation and Impact Summit, École Polytechnique president Jacques Biot urges universities to prepare for ‘Industry 4.0’

Jo Johnson, minister for universities and science, says ‘we will ensure students and taxpayers receive strong returns from their investment in higher education’

Ahead of the THE Innovation and Impact Summit, speaker Max Lu looks at the challenges of university-industry partnership

Labour’s pledge to axe fees suggests that ever-higher charges may not be inevitable, but tough choices between university priorities seem unavoidable

Removing the cap on subsidised sub-bachelor’s places in public universities will pull the rug out from under technical and further education providers offering similar qualifications, says Gavin Moodie

Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald

Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

Are scholars really so out of touch with the real world or do we need to look again at this tired narrative that doesn’t reflect the reality of modern academia, asks James Georgalakis

Sarah Olney, the Lib Dem education spokeswoman, on her party’s vision for higher education 

Sir Keith Burnett explains why it matters more than ever that universities speak out in support of our international communities

Pam Tatlow writes in defence of modern universities, and the way they work with the Home Office to further the UK's interests overseas

Ahead of his address at Going Global 2017, Phil Baty looks at the relationship between the world’s best universities and their place in the world

Labour Party will also ensure that students currently at university will not have to pay tuition for their remaining years, says shadow HE minister Gordon Marsden

Northampton vice-chancellor on his visits to Iraq – and the problems they have caused him with US immigration authorities

Say Burgin says that universities lack the will to make the changes needed to tackle inequality

Sally Hunt explains why employers must change their ‘counterproductive’ attitudes towards risk to avoid further cuts to academic pensions

While the Higher Education and Research Act seeks to level the playing field between providers, an unregulated category could spook future politicians and see the law retightened, says Nick Hillman

Vice-chancellors need to be less demanding and more collaborative and constructive if they want concessions from the government on issues such as immigration, says Lord Lucas

Objections to co-authorship with juniors display a misguided sense of ethics, say Mark Hayter and Roger Watson

As higher education costs rise inexorably, students or governments will inevitably have to pay more, says Peter Coaldrake

Higher education might not be a central issue in the UK’s general election campaign, but it certainly has much riding on the outcome

This week, Times Higher Education is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Brenda Jo Brueggemann writes about hearing loss

This week, Times Higher Education is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Farah Mendlesohn writes on the problems caused by poor disability access on campus

This week, Times Higher Education is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Anna Nibbs writes about her autism

Scholars' inboxes are a minefield of spam, newsletters, and the odd invitation to meet a very important person

Ronald Schuchard looks at how Eliot’s time at the University of London shaped his work

This week, Times Higher Education is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Nigel Lockett talks about being a dyslexic professor

UK universities may be among the most autonomous, but they need international cooperation to make their voices heard, says Paul Boyle

Academics should get out of their bubbles and engage, not deride, says Rachel Carey

Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane

As universities rely on multiple income streams to stay afloat, private money comes with caveats and portfolios must balance profit and principle

Chinese students’ calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros 

Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don’t all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton

Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D’Agostino

Sir Keith Burnett writes from the US on the country’s mixed – and sometimes misleading – immigration history

Claire Taylor’s approach to change in her institution has been inspired by the French president’s rise to power

The definition of a university called for by the Lords never really materialised, writes Gill Evans

Bashir Makhoul tells of his inspiring journey from a tiny village in Palestine to university leadership

Forget affirmative action, says Sami Mikhail; universities are right to recruit on academic merit

UK universities rely on international researchers, say Susan Guthrie and Catie Lichten, but is the pressure on researchers to be mobile too great?

Conservative politicians emboldened by the president’s election could exact the heaviest toll on higher education, says Matthew Hartley

While not all student-supervisor relationships end in disaster, permitting them infringes women’s right to education, participation and a safe work environment, say five female academics 

By focusing on collaboration as much as funding levels, technological progress can spearhead national prosperity and self-confidence, says Angus Horner

Universities must not be complacent about freedom of speech, and need to ensure students use it to drive change, says Bill Rammell 

Women’s pay still lags behind men’s, and a lack of transparency around salaries makes it all the harder to address

Felipe Fernández-Armesto takes issue with a claim that the EU has been playing the sovereignty card in Brexit negotiations

Yusra Mouzughi on the many dilemmas faced when recruiting staff to a brand-new university

On International Jazz Day, Mark Laver hits back at the US government’s views on arts education

Baroness Amos and Toyin Saraki on why Soas is using its centenary to highlight the importance of leveraging female education to improve development

John Morgan looks at the political rewards and risks for Labour on student and sector funding

Reaction as the HE and Research Bill ends its journey through Parliament

Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze

In an age of political civil war, the question of why the Right is so under-represented in academia is important

Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin

Students who grew up disinviting ideological difference on Facebook will naturally want to do the same on campus, says Darren Linvill

Universities should not be neutral about attempts to ‘no platform’ speakers. They must defend students’ right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller

A protest campaign in support of the Hungarian university is in full swing, explains Jan Kubik

Scholars with working-class backgrounds are ideally placed to change how academics are perceived, says Stefanie Stiles