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Academics should not be seduced by the moral certainty on either side of the ‘with us or against us’ divide, says Brad Evans

Economist calls for emphasis on wages and jobs as antidote to ‘failed’ doctrines, as he takes up Glasgow role looking at independent Scotland

New measures that provide insight into how universities build personal qualities of their graduates are needed, argue Doug Cole and Dino Willox

Metrics rarely reflect how students have addressed their weaknesses, which is itself the most rewarding part of university teaching, says Megan Argo

Rest of students’ return to English universities should be staggered from 25 January, while international students asked to reconsider urgency of need to travel to UK

Diana Beech, former adviser to Tory ministers, wants to challenge ‘crude generalisations’ that could hit London’s vital arts courses

Government gives priority for medical subjects to restart in first weeks of January, with wider student return ‘kept under review’

Both Nottingham universities’ leaders also honoured, along with former AHRC head Andrew Thompson

Calls to redesign curricula for online study ignore how scholars need time and peer support to reinvent courses, says Carole Binns

°Õ±á·¡â€™s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

Lord Wharton of Yarm urged to get up to speed with challenges as ‘quickly as possible’ if appointment confirmed

With just a few notable exceptions, it’s no surprise to find that this year’s most popular stories were dominated by one particular topic