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Universities face a number of tough challenges, but they can rise to any test if they stick to their principles and continue their course, says Bernd Huber

Universities will be key to ensuring that China¡¯s Belt and Road Initiative succeeds with maximum benefit and minimal disruption, argues Rocky Tuan

Claims that the UK¡¯s counterterrorism strategy targets Muslims and harms free speech are ¡®nonsense¡¯, says Prevent coordinator Chris Sybenga

Universities serve society in innumerable and inimitable ways. But we still must earn our place in people¡¯s hearts and minds, says Stephen Toope

In addressing divisive free speech ¡®events¡¯ and shrinking budgets, Berkeley¡¯s Carol Christ worked with the campus community to create a new, unifying narrative

Unleashing the power of place by weaving itself firmly into the fabric of its local area made Toronto a better, more attractive institution, says Meric Gertler

Young people are rightly impatient for change, so Cape Town is using their input to reshape the curriculum and more, says Mamokgethi Phakeng

Do away with the expectation that young people will seek out universities to inform their world view and meet them on common ground, argues Ed Byrne

It¡¯s easy to miss or undervalue the academic accomplishments of universities when they are rated on their reputations alone, argue Pam Benoit and Suzanne Austin

Where will higher education be in 2030? Our survey asks university leaders what they think the next decade holds for the sector

Giving personalised, frequent feedback to students at scale is no longer the privilege of small, highly resourced universities, says Timothy Renick 

Michigan State is applying the scientific knowledge it¡¯s developed over 150 years to its own campus to improve student success, says June Pierce Youatt 

Countries around the world are increasingly seeing the benefits of a compromise between free fees and income-contingent loans, say Alex Usher and Robert Burroughs

The mooted merger of the universities of Adelaide and South Australia would cast a long shadow over the city¡¯s other major university, says Gavin Moodie

Science blooms when colleagues¡¯ ideas cross-pollinate. Impediments to free movement will lead to a disastrous withering, says Sir Keith Burnett

Training staff and students in ¡®mental health first aid¡¯ can help ameliorate the growing crisis, say Clemente Diaz and Douglas Medina

Feelings of isolation and the need to self-censor are familiar to the tens of thousands of Muslim students affected by the counterterrorism programme Prevent, says Akiqul Hoque

Senior leaders must lead the charge in changing higher education¡¯s structural disadvantages for black and minority ethnic staff and students, say Kalwant Bhopal and Sally Hunt

While maintaining an anti-intellectual position, the far right is misrepresenting social science research to support its own agenda, observes Cynthia Miller-Idriss

A nation-wide survey has found that public opinion is on the side of student mobility and higher education, but new institutions must be built where socio-economic needs are greatest, says Jill Rutter

Conservative anger at initiatives to make campuses more inclusive to minority students is misplaced, say Kevin Singer, Laura Dahl, Matthew J. Mayhew and Alyssa N. Rockenbach

The UK¡¯s new research mega-body has huge power to tackle long-standing inequalities, says its new diversity tsar Jennifer Rubin

The Migration Advisory Committee review showed little interest in understanding international students or how the UK labour market works, says Stanley Ipkiss

Asking social scientists to demonstrate academic impact ignores the messy reality of political lobbying, says Matthew Flinders

Although universities share a common goal, they face diverse challenges that make it unhelpful to view them as a homogeneous mass

The ease with which essays can be bought and the difficulty of grading them fairly means they should no longer be used for assessment, says Phil Race

European funders¡¯ beefed-up open access mandate sounds the death knell for subscription publishing, but academic Armageddon is no closer, says Lenny Teytelman

A move to combat India¡¯s love affair with predatory journals is an encouraging sign ¨C even if it took a newspaper expos¨¦ to prompt it, says Pushkar

A labyrinthine visa process and perverse decision-making are making life increasingly untenable for non-Palestinian academics, says Raja Shehadeh

The former Bank of England governor¡¯s broadside against academic pension cuts relied on ¡®reckless¡¯ and ¡®absurd¡¯ assumptions, say John Ralfe and Bernard Casey

Nick Hillman explains why the much-anticipated UK review of overseas student policy gets it so wrong

How can contract academics inspire action and hope in their students when they feel hopeless, asks Sarika Bose 

Universities in the US are dealing with an unprecedented number of sexual violence complaints and greater scrutiny of the legal processes that follow, writes Emily Mack 

Many feel that government neglect has taken away a rare source of higher education and culture from the surrounding working-class neighbourhood, writes Stephanie Reist 

Erecting walls around university research labs will only leave us all worse off, writes Andrew Williamson 

UK academics prize the USS pension. Sacrificing a scheme ¡®in rude health¡¯ on the basis of overcautious calculations would cause more disaffection

Students¡¯ unions are rich sources of information and have the capacity to deliver outcomes on issues such as employment and retention, argues Jim Dickinson 

Gender bias in the academy is all too real, but we should be just as wary of confirmation bias, says Terri Apter 

Education can and should be central to good living. That insight is key to tackling the student mental health crisis, says Beth Guilding

A failure to treat staff fairly and consistently impedes academic standards and hurts students, says Sheikh Nahid Neazy

Universities must look beyond a narrow conception of impact to communicate the true value of higher education to society, say Ulrike Felt, Maximilian Fochler, Andreas Richter, Ren¨¦e Schroeder and Lisa Sigl

As a senior lecturer in special needs education, David Bara says having first-hand experience of this world makes his lecturing and research invaluable to the field 

Left with an inconclusive residency application, Alexandra Bulat asks when the government will end the double act of praising EU students while leaving their futures in the UK uncertain

Not admitting retrospective medical evidence of mental illness in appeals against poor grades does an injustice to vulnerable students, say Daniel Sokol and Julia Heller

We are digitising the remnants of a (successful) 1897 protest against women entering the University of Cambridge to ensure the stories of pioneering women in higher education aren¡¯t forgotten, says Sian Collins 

Heriot-Watt University is taking a new approach to transnational education by operating as a single institution with locations in Scotland, Malaysia and Dubai, says Richard A. Williams 

The mercury has fallen, but an alarming number of issues threaten to ignite and, potentially, give the UK sector some painful burns

Dianne Berry and Kim Hackett unpack new guidance for research excellence framework submissions that attempts to ensure staff who have individual circumstances can still contribute to output

Written articles may usually be the most appropriate scholarly medium, but why are the alternatives so undervalued, asks Paul Craddock

Junior scholars need all the experiences they can get, but their digital know-how can also boost the impact of academic events, says Alice Kelly

With the cost of UK participation in EU research no longer hidden post-Brexit, a robust case for Horizon Europe membership must be made, says Graeme Reid

Australian universities are nervous about how governments, students and their own academics will react to new legal curbs on ¡®foreign influence¡¯, says Dean Forbes

The toppling of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could become a global example for restorative justice on campus, if only university leaders could see it that way, writes Alexander Peeples 

Transnational research is vital to academic pursuits but it shouldn¡¯t be carried out at the cost of vulnerable people in resource-poor countries, says Kate Chatfield 

Universities are intellectual spaces and censorship of opinion is not the right way to solve freedom of speech conflicts, says Dawn Freshwater  

Universities and established researchers have a responsibility to support the well-being of their PhD students, argues Geoffrey Cantor 

Collaborating with our most junior colleagues can be just as rewarding and eye-opening as working with graduate students, argues Jenny Peterson 

If we truly want to widen access to higher education, we must wake up to the fact that a school-leaver isn¡¯t representative of all new university entrants, says Jonathan Wylie 

Goodbye Poppleton. Memorial edition.

Laurie Taylor¡¯s campus creation was loved because it mirrored academics¡¯ own experiences. Although it¡¯s closed, it will live on