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A specialist journalistic organisation could allow academics to explain their work without distortion, suggests Peter Geoghegan

Anachronistic academic awards for students can pose headaches for long-suffering staff, writes Adrian Furnham

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Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ¡®betrayers of the truth¡¯

Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation

The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald

Studying abroad is of great value and the cost of UK degrees will shortly become prohibitive. Peter Brady identifies a dangerous mix

We live in a connected global environment, Graeme Harper says, so why does the sector act like it's 1911, not 2011?

Clegg and Cable offer nothing new, just a return to Depression politics. They have sown the wind, says Simon Lee, and will reap the whirlwind

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It is folly to emulate a US higher education system that, according to OECD figures, is failing so many of its young citizens

US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

Widening participation needs reconceptualising for a new age, say John Butcher, Rohini Corfield and John Rose-Adams

After the turbulence of the past year, business secretary Vince Cable sets out the government's vision for the future of higher education

The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben

Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.

As poor steering threatens to cut off the supply of homegrown STEM graduates, coalition policy looks set to crash and burn

Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?

Jeremy Black is making a stand against the grandiose claims made by far too many blurbs on the back of academic books

Demands that scholars like David Starkey not speak outside their subject threaten intellectual freedom, Frank Furedi says

Northern Ireland - and the rest of the UK - has a lot riding on tough decisions over how to pay for higher education, says Tony Gallagher

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We need a way to archive the web for the future while ensuring that people are not lost in 'data shadows' or digital doppelg?ngers

Even recalcitrant scholars can¡¯t escape the mobile¡¯s reach, says Sally Feldman

Degree ceremonies have become shameless branding exercises in which graduates are mere afterthoughts, laments Susan Bassnett

We need role models that encourage girls to study science, says Athene Donald

Academics should back a case-study approach to impact in the REF or risk getting far worse, says Claire Donovan

Dennis Tourish passes judgement on a system that invariably fails to give a clear picture of how well people are doing their jobs

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When it comes to Murdoch's involvement in our universities, the most fundamental question raised is not about individual donors: it's about the place of private wealth in the UK sector, says Deborah Cameron

David Starkey's comment that Jamaican patois drove last week's riots reveal a shockingly profound ignorance, argues Geoffrey K. Pullum

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It takes more than 140 characters to raise a mob, says Kevin Fong

Mark Burnley is baffled by the decision not to tell academics how their work has been scored. How will improvement ever be possible?

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Is the Times Higher Education ¡®exam howlers¡¯ competition a bit of harmless fun, or unfair and offensive? Katie Alcock believes the joke is on teachers as well as their students and no one is any the worse for it, but Alice Bell finds little to smile about

Cutting-edge researchers aren¡¯t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan

Education¡¯s true aims comprise a very short list, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

The EPSRC's funding shift from investigator-driven work to application-driven R&D is misguided, says Philip Moriarty

Richard J. Evans weighs a High Court judgment that awarded an academic ?65,000 in damages for negative coverage of her work

Technology is, of course, an aid to education, says Frank Webster, but we must teach students how to evaluate and filter information

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In the scrum for AABs, elite institutions risk putting themselves beyond the reach of disadvantaged students

The AAB plans could limit choice, narrow participation and damage the UK's reputation, Christopher Snowden argues

Criticism of graduate nursing is an evidence-free zone, Roger Watson argues: mastering the job requires academic ability as well as skill

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Universities cannot be truly competitive unless they can set pay locally. Like it or not, national bargaining is a dead duck

Citations and impact factors are old hat, says Matthew Gamble; the Web 2.0 generation needs metrics to match today¡¯s scholarship

We must listen to the Continent¡¯s sounds and sweet airs, says Malcolm Gillies

The Australian 'education revolution' is making progress, although there are still challenges to be overcome, writes Peter Coaldrake

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