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Institutions whose managers are unaccountable to their staff can never be truly civic universities, says Krzysztof Nawratek  

With Andy Burnham’s new government announcing plans to scrap the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, we discuss what this could mean for UK research

Concerns about quality and price will not go away any time soon, but neither will student demand, says Pushkar

Whitehall rearrangements are disruptive, but what matters more than departmental arrangements is the people in charge, says Nick Hillman

Supervisors should involve doctoral students with conducting, writing up and publishing experiments straight away, says Adrian Furnham

Degrees are not the place to turn to if we want to reduce the number of 16- to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training, says Mark Morrin

Dundee’s proposal comes just as a hiring spree in Silicon Valley is raising the ceiling on what a philosophy degree can lead to, says Oisín Keohane 

A room full of international educators half a world away reminded me what my priorities as an acting college president should be, says Jonathan Becker

AI does not make robust learning any less vital. We need a mechanism to ensure the cost pays off for those committed to it, says Alan Finkel

If the government implements only half of the accord, it will kill off postgraduate options for low-SES students, says Jesse Gardner-Russell 

Approaches involving active participation by students would provide richer insights than multiple-choice surveys, says Hannah Fox

As the child of working-class immigrants, I am so grateful for the doors of understanding and opportunity the arts opened for me, says Davina Quinlivan 

At last week’s HE debate, a host of Oxford-associated grandees made the usual points while the sector continued to melt down, says Andrew McRae

Author inflation is global but is being exacerbated in the UK by an exercise that fails to take account of individual contribution, says Chen Su

We discuss what the next three years could hold for UK universities under an Andy Burnham premiership

Political, financial and organisational issues abound, but effective funding for collaborative, bottom-up research would be a boon, says Jan Palmowski

The institutions that transformed the modern world face existential threats from AI, political hostility and their own inertia, says Geoff Mulgan

Nor can it be acceptable for an author to wait half a year to read reports that their own AI could have created in seconds, says Cornel Nesseler

For those without digital and cultural capital, AI is a dangerous helper whose use is liable to land them in hot water, says Rituparna Patgiri

Recruiting whoever costs least, unsettles least and matches current operational needs most closely is self-defeating on many levels, says Peter Sutoris

No curriculum reform, however bold, will kickstart a sluggish labour market. Employers and politicians must play their part, too, says Pikolomzi Qaba

Behind many successful applications to overseas universities lies an ecosystem of consultants, brokers and test manipulators, says Sabrina Wang

Covid’s cultural effect is difficult to overcome, but we can at least resist the trend of infinite accommodation, say Mario Senovilla and Elena Liquete

The popularity of an undergraduate course in Hong Kong reveals an enduring hunger to examine what makes life worth living, says McQueen Sum

Students must be taught a more community-based form of development, less dependent on the goodwill of donors, says Noam Schimmel

What do the 2026 Sustainability Impact Ratings tell us about the countries and regions whose universities are prioritising work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

The Sustainable Development Goals – and independent assessments based on them – help guide the University of Manchester towards its ‘north star’, writes vice-chancellor Duncan Ivison

Improving sustainability and resilience can be a way of life for a higher education institution, writes Western Sydney University vice-chancellor George Williams

Anxious students offer rich pickings for those offering to check their AI-likelihood scores, say Benjamin Luke Moorhouse and James Mian Jia

Imagine if every student graduated with evidence not only of what they knew, but also of how effectively they could communicate it, says Bruce Hood

When whole campus communities are displaced and war continues, sustainability becomes an endurance test that can help an institution rediscover its true mission, writes Mykola Trofymenko

A comparative analysis could explore what creates social support for international education, say Glyn Davis and Anton Muscatelli

From beach clean-ups to integrating greener practices in curricula and institutions, student participation is key if we want young people to drive Africa’s future sustainability, say Belinda Mensah and Divine Edem Kwadzodeh