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Political ambition is not enough. Stable funding, coherent regulation and realistic institutional differentiation are also vital, says Kyuseok Kim

We are witnessing the collapse of the idea that, as civilian institutions, universities should not be targeted in wartime, says Roohola Ramezani

After Péter Magyar’s landslide election victory, we discuss why it might not be easy for him to restore independence and academic freedom to Hungarian higher education

Calls to ditch AI because it is destroying students’ analytical skills ignore institutions’ questionable record at developing complex reasoning, says Ian Richardson

With undergraduates viewing education as a transaction and AI offering helpful summaries, reading is dying out on UK campuses, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

Pretending research environments could be measured by metrics or policies ignored how scholarship actually relies on peer-to-peer relations unique to academic cultures, say Martin Holbraad, Dan Nightingale and Aeron O’Connor

Lacking profile or career reward, higher doctorates are being mothballed by UK universities. That is a pity for a credential that helps scholars build on the research potential of their PhD, says Andrew Shenton

Some of the most important questions around accuracy, bias, authorship and appropriate use might not be immediately visible, says Santa Ono

How we describe research groups can shape how we lead them. It’s time we abandon images that normalise exploitation, says Anders Bach-Mortensen

Northumbria’s move to encourage staff on to USS is not about saving costs. It will allow pay to keep up with other research-intensives, says Andy Long

A precipitous fall in the university’s performance can only be rectified by a restoration of academic governance, says Terence Kealey

As UK universities queue up to open branch campuses in India, we discuss what has sparked this renewed enthusiasm for a model of TNE previously considered moribund and why many remain cynical about the chances of success

However strong China’s university system becomes, its success will always be partly dependent on international networks, says Futao Huang

The UK needs a national strategy involving funders, universities, libraries, publishers and scholarly communities, says Lindsay Farmer

Research Australia’s pre-budget submission is the latest move to ensure women finally receive equity in health and careers, says Jessica Borger

Without big improvements, universities will fail to play their part in a long overdue effort to embed support in everyday institutions, says Noel Vest

The issues concerning AI and copyright are far more complicated than the ‘Big Music v Big Tech’ paradigm presented in the media, says Benjamin White

When teaching staff are casualised and cut while delivering the core business of universities, something is broken, say Katharine Hubbard and Damien Page

If AI amplifies what you bring to it, the liberal arts mission of developing critical thinkers becomes not nostalgia but practical necessity, says Nicholas Creel

Even if delayed grants arrive soon, it is too late to hire postdocs this year, and wider budget cuts will cut the supply of tech skills, says Malcolm Fairbairn

With the 35 recommendations of the Strategic Examination of Research and Development made public this week, we discuss how many of these long-hoped-for reforms are likely to become a reality

The quality of Ehler and Repasi’s amendments will force the European Council and Commission to take them extremely seriously, says Jan Palmowski

Paris-Saclay’s statement reprimanding its own ethics committee provides a prime example of the Palestine exception, says Jonathan Rosenhead

Such students’ uneven degree results suggest that we might be funnelling some young people into university too early, says Alex Blakemore

We need greater openness among scholars on both the left and right to revise their views in light of counter-argument, says Martyn Hammersley 

Full automation may be possible in narrow cases, but it is neither realistic nor desirable as a general model, say Bashir M. Al-Hashimi and Nick Jennings

If we lose our constitutional rights and freedoms, colleges will cease to remain true to their purpose, says Martin Skladany

Humans’ epistemic arrogance belies the fact that subject knowledge is always incomplete and cognitive bandwidth is strictly finite, says Prince Sarpong 

The path forward is not a simple pivot to domestic students but a shift towards programmes with strong labour-market outcomes, says Boxi Yang

Before the Taliban’s return, many Afghan academics went abroad for PhDs. But the collapse in their prospects has left many in limbo, says a scholar

Experiences in Hungary, the US and the Netherlands make threats like autocratic legalism and oligarchic capture feel existential, says Ferenc Laczó 

If we treat AI as a purely rational evolution of human intelligence, we risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

His successful insurgent campaign for New York mayor was not driven primarily by moral appeal but by sustained fieldwork, says Mayank Chugh