New leader of Canada鈥檚 Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer, promises research grant cuts to universities that offer safe spaces or speaker bans, says Creso S谩
Despite all that鈥檚 been done to improve doctoral study, horror stories keep coming. Here three students relate PhD nightmares while two academics advise on how to ensure a successful supervision
Moves to privilege community service in university admissions will create even more social justice warriors when what we need are more deep thinkers, argues Alexander Zubatov
Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students鈥 and universities鈥 lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald
The need to accommodate foreign students undermines domestic practices, says Lincoln Allison, spying parallels between UK universities and global sports bodies such as Fifa
Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane
Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don鈥檛 all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton
Students are being hoodwinked into enrolling on 鈥榯rendy鈥 new degree programmes that are, according to one concerned academic, little more than a marketing exercise
Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D鈥橝gostino
Chinese students鈥 calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros
While not all student-supervisor relationships end in disaster, permitting them infringes women鈥檚 right to education, participation and a safe work environment, say five female academics
Universities should not be neutral about attempts to 鈥榥o platform鈥 speakers. They must defend students鈥 right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller
With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren Bebbington outlines a survival strategy for the increasingly unaffordable traditional university
