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Local and international collaboration will allow institutions to tackle the challenges of sustainable development, says Tawana Kupe

The crackdown on ¡®Islamo-leftism¡¯ is a purely political move to court right-wing votes in the coming election, says William Barylo

Worries about Islamo-leftism in France and free speech in England reflect disciplines¡¯ straddling of science and activism, says Alexis Artaud de La Ferri¨¨re

International student mobility was the rock on which universities built their empire. With Covid turning prior certainties into unknowns, what now?

It is precisely by getting their priorities straight that established academics can, and must, set a better example, say Fleur Jongepier and Mathijs van de Sande

Rites of passage failed to launch this year, from sex to graduation. We have a moral duty to help students find meaning in their lives, says Bertus Jeronimus

Teaching online renders women¡¯s bodies invisible, but are their talking heads really judged on a par with men¡¯s, asks Kate Eichhorn

Higher education reforms promised differentiation, but a failure to implement bold changes and a lack of desire for innovation are resulting in the opposite trend, says Liviu Andreescu

We know that employing learners as active co-creators of their learning builds opportunities for knowledge absorption, say Guy Daly and Andrew Turner

To coordinate research translation, a new organisation is needed that isn¡¯t tied to one university but is linked to all, says Keith Ridgway 

Badly designed sessions are big on waste: waste of talent, waste of concentration, waste of ability and waste of time, says Christian Gilliam

The Chicago Principles are powerful partly because they are linked to institutional history and values, say Carolyn Evans and Adrienne Stone

Many of us with learning disabilities struggle to process hour-long lecture recordings but pedagogical flexibility and online support offer new ways ahead, says Gemma Ahearne

Too many trustees misunderstand or forget their fiduciary responsibilities and become co-opted by institutional presidents, says James Koch

Pakistan¡¯s labour shortages illustrate that well-rounded graduates also need to be properly prepared for specific industries, says Tahir Shah

A global recession will accelerate the latest shift away from high-cost study destinations, say Janet Ilieva and David Pilsbury

Many students have not had their expectations met, but it¡¯s unhelpful to assume this is a systemic online teaching and learning issue, says Linda Kaye

Why shouldn¡¯t marketing staff have ongoing input into the brand perception they work so hard to cultivate among prospects, asks Victoria O¡¯Malley

Sir Michael Barber¡¯s blueprint can help digital delivery enhance learning rather than acting as an inconvenient stopgap, says David Puttnam

We know from bitter experience that poor or misguided online practice can have serious safeguarding consequences, say Emma Bond and Andy Phippen

Awareness campaigns, support services and coordination with local authorities and transport providers are all needed, says Maya Tutton

The University of Groningen¡¯s response to the pandemic has been widely lauded. Key to it was taking teachers and students seriously from the start, says Klaas van Veen

Universities need to review the unhelpful websites and unwittingly ageist admissions procedures that prevent older people becoming doctoral students, says Alison Etches

Trauma suffered by lecturers who were forced to teach in-person during coronavirus spike should not be dismissed, say Paul Hanna, Carl Walker and Mark Erickson

Actors? Videographers? Graphic designers? Covid has forced academics to wear many uncomfortable hats, say Christine Rivers and Anna Holland

Pausing the assessment timetable for tenure and promotion may seem helpful, but it will actually deepen disparities on campus, says Jennifer Greenfield

What if I could be in 2,000 breakout group discussions simultaneously, nudging students along a more productive path? asks David Shrier

No institution will be able to make it alone amid the pandemic-induced tumult, so let¡¯s make shared values the antidote to the crisis, says Ferruccio Resta

The great loss is the more subtle stuff, such as arching an eyebrow at a pal when Professor X starts droning on, says Athene Donald

Knock-backs are frequent and unavoidable. But treating referees¡¯ comments with a hard-headed pragmatism lessens the sting, says Adrian Furnham

Academia jettisoned decades of orthodoxy about how to teach and research overnight when the pandemic hit. What¡¯s stopping it making other transformations?

My research inspired laptop bans in classrooms around the world, but we need nuance in our thinking about using technology, says Danny Oppenheimer

Different university groupings should have strong, distinctive capabilities that address specific markets, says John H. Howard

Scrutiny is inevitable but universities should do more to promote their teaching and their place in civil society, says Rosemary Bennett

Many institutions may find it challenging to translate the crisis experience into an immediate enhancement of teaching and learning, says Michael Gaebel 

This isn¡¯t the 18th century. Email and phones exist. So why is so much academic discussion still left to journals, asks Julian Baggini

A national ¡®great debate¡¯ in England would be more effective than imposing free speech champions and threatening fines, says Dennis Hayes

Given the year we've just had, we might expect some acknowledgment of the need to address student welfare online, say Andy Phippen and Emma Bond

Academics must emphasise that thinking critically does not mean dismissing everything as biased, say Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren

In virtually all our endeavours in the academy, collaboration is valued ¨C so why is the classroom an exception, ask Kwong Nui Sim and Michael Cowling

Evidence shows that universities outside the golden triangle are among the best at creating successful companies, says Brian McCaul

¡®Warming up¡¯ the screen needs to become a priority for educators, especially for video-based tutorials and seminars, says Lucinda McKnight

Global university networks, enhanced by technology, will offer students more flexibility over where to study, says Youmin Xi

Mastering the art of saying 'no' is one way academics can protect themselves from spiralling workloads, says psychology lecturer Dean Fido

As Netflix¡¯s film on Sutton Hoo illustrates, collaboration between academic and commercial research enriches understanding of history, says Susan Greaney

We must find ways to balance integrity, privacy, accessibility, workload and student expectations, say Jennifer Lawrence and Kylie Day

The discipline¡¯s existence reflects an enduring Western belief in the inferiority of knowledge production specific to different cultures, says David Simon

An ideological gap has grown, where some universities have different ideas to students about the concept of a university, says Steve Davies

Fighting discrimination is a must, but the IHRA document undermines that fight and threatens free speech, says Hagit Borer

This swift transformation highlights who among our students we think are worthy of learning and who we choose to leave behind, says Clare Mullaney

Reduced tuition fees and more hardship scholarships would help those watching Zoom lectures while working on checkouts, says Barbara Franz

His experience teaching in Iraq has underlined for Jack R. Williams the perils of simply extrapolating from personal experience

Flexibility around degree provision is the only way to ensure that workforces are equipped for the future, says Liz Barnes

The ¡®feel¡¯ for a person that comes from encountering them in their home is difficult to replicate in depth online, says Graham Crow

It will do no harm to find colleagues who understand the role of social, economic and cultural backgrounds in academia, says Carole Binns

Announced increases in hardship funding are not enough, while missed educational opportunities must be replaced, says Paul Blomfield

Academics might have scrambled to adjust to online teaching but their expertise has taken flight and merits a global platform to share it

With US enrolment numbers falling off a cliff, the future is ripe for deep, cross-border partnerships between institutions, says Rick Shangraw

People who teach digital skills in a computer lab know that students aren¡¯t always as adept as they might pretend to be, says Elizabeth Losh

Shocking lapses in scientific standards show why renewed scrutiny of existing literature and new anti-fraud measures are needed, says David A. Sanders