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The 'core-and-margin' policy will cost colleges dear - another unforeseen result of coalition plans, says Philip Davies

Wes Streeting argues that a truly independent watchdog would back upfront cash for low-income students, not 'fee waivers' for the state

Soul-crushing email causes stress and slows work. Oliver Double proposes some ways to cut the burden. Email-free Friday, anyone?

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In a reformed sector, marketers should play a role in the creation of degrees - but academics must remain in charge of the process

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto finds little joy in Christmas hymns and carols

Many state school pupils miss the chance to learn a foreign language. Universities must offer them the opportunity, insists Julia King

Journalism with academic analysis can create material with impact - but will the REF consider it? asks John Mair

The LSE made mistakes in its links with Libya, as Lord Woolf found. Judith Rees, its director, says it will learn from those failings

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Academia must follow the Church¡¯s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies

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Why is it that when young people express frustration at the bleak future they see ahead, we respond with another kick in the shins?

Aaron Porter says that in a high-fees world, the sector must do more to involve an increasingly diverse student body in decision-making

Impact gives science a way to keep the public onside, says Stephen Curry

The EPSRC's new strategy intends to strengthen research to attract extra funding in future, explains David Delpy

Universities need to learn how to present themselves and their work to the public to ensure mutual understanding, says Paul Manners

Demonstrators are not the only ones with profound if unarticulated questions. Stefano Harney says we owe students more than teaching

Students want to be better people; current policies hinder them, argue Paul Ashwin, Andrea Abbas and Monica McLean

The Netherlands has a workable system from which the UK could learn, says Paul Benneworth. But, be warned, it will involve compromise

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As a cancer survivor, Sally Feldman has been a research object and participant

Professional development for lecturers is vital - students deserve it and universities' reputations depend on it, advises Herb Marsh

On the many problems that confront our members in these dark times, our record speaks for itself, says the UCU's Sally Hunt

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In its reckless rush for change, the government is endangering the charitable public-interest mission at the sector's core

The best careers advice? Follow your enthusiasms, says Kevin Fong

How much? When? The fee loan repayment system needs to be spelled out to would-be students, says Martin Lewis

A UK-wide digital library for British higher education is in reach, says Ann Rossiter, if we can sort the licensing out

Ideology is preventing the UCU et al from appreciating the private sector's diversity and its fair treatment of staff, argues Aldwyn Cooper

The impact agenda rewards unoriginal thinkers and threatens to snuff out the bright 'Sparks' who could change the world, warns Bill Amos

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By favouring grandstanding over academics' worries for the profession and their future, the UCU risks irrelevance

Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement

With working hours and unemployment on the rise, Harriet Bradley argues that it's time to consider the logical alternative: job-sharing

Offering library access to alumni and independent researchers helps to keep a university at the heart of its community, says Susan Gibbons

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Social scientists and scientists will serve the public best by working together to present their findings, Alice Bell argues

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto is bewitched by the methods of an Arkansas teacher

Words of division won¡¯t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies

By collaborating to provide careers advice to teenagers, universities will help to broaden outreach, says Tessa Stone

If the University of Wales survives the calls for closure, its leaders need to clarify its purpose, cautions alumnus Deian Hopkin

Research remains male-dominated and the equality guidelines proposed for the REF don't go far enough, says Carole Leathwood

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University rankings are inapplicable to the developing world and risk doing damage there, argues Adam Habib

Journal owners want academics to work with them towards the shared goal of furthering and disseminating research, says Graham Taylor

The longer one wears the crown, the more tyrannical he becomes - a senior academic offers a theory of vice-chancellors' behaviour

An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson

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Adjust for population, GDP and funding, and US dominance disappears, Howard Hotson argues. And so does the case for neoliberal university reform

The use of journal rankings and citations data throughout the REF would hamstring innovation, argues Hugh Willmott