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Tim Birkhead ponders the optimal size and location of the conference venue

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Flatter to deceive? No thanks

They're everywhere now. John Warren recalls when it was a rare honour to receive the academy's highest accolade

William Evans is not convinced by the arguments put forward for charging higher tuition costs in the UK for students from abroad

...is cheer and courtesy, says Sally Feldman, and we could do with a little here

Demand-led funding and growing state regulation may leave the Australian system with the worst of all worlds, says Steven Schwartz

Now is a fertile time to be conducting research among the proliferating forms of social media, writes Tara Brabazon

Browne's consumer revolution will drive a wedge between scholars and students, with bleak consequences for all, argues David Beer

Philip G. Altbach and Wanhua Ma assess China's initiatives to persuade its academics working abroad to bring their expertise back

Kevin Fong ponders the pleasures and pains of science broadcasting

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Manning up

Why did the sector capitulate so readily to coalition policies without considering long-term impact? asks John Coyne

Mike Cole and Sara C. Motta defend the record of post-Ch¨¢vez Venezuela, a country that offers a vision of genuine participatory democracy in stark contrast to the West¡¯s cynical politics

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Dangerous liaisons

Border Agency plans to exclude students on grounds of nationality are shameful, declares Geoffrey Alderman

A partnership model would cut management and make mission key again, say Rebecca Boden, Penelope Ciancanelli and Susan Wright

Routine work can open channels of creativity, inspiration and insight that theory cannot begin to offer, believes George Watson

The coalition's consensus policies manage to benefit no one, says Alan Ryan

Visual media educators have a great choice of technological wizardry they can employ to enhance their teaching, writes Tara Brabazon

Stephen Cowley and Susan Cooper hope employers do not see pension reform solely as a cost-cutting opportunity

The new funding regime may allow universities, led by a British 'Ivy League', to refocus on their missions, argues Peter Oppenheimer

Amid chill budgetary winds, institutions and students need clarity from the government about access and fees, Paul Marshall argues

This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto on the real punchline of his diplomatic incident

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Behind closed doors

After 18, the government becomes very confused about education, says David Colquhoun

As its progenitors mature, popular culture is rising to the challenges of facing the inevitability of ageing, writes Tara Brabazon

Scotland must stand against tuition fees and preserve universal state-supported access to higher education or risk a return to Dickensian darkness, argues Kate Smith

In cricket, as in other fields, choosing sides matters, writes Richard Bosworth

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Cold comfort in the Gulag

If fees reform puts graduates off postgraduate study, where will academia find its new blood, asks Sir Adam Roberts

Many turn to God in the face of death, but two critics of religion, 230 years apart, have the same calm courage, writes Robert Zaretsky

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto's words of advice to unpopular or indecisive presidents and ministers who doubt their own policies

...and other quandaries to mull over. Malcolm Gillies takes the temperature

There is little substance to the government's promise to 'beef up' university access agreements, says Graeme Atherton

Pressure to have research accepted by the 'right' journals in order to get on damages scholarship, warns Dennis Tourish

Now the fee rise seems certain, Peter Scott scrutinises the effects of the marketisation of higher education on supply and demand

Tim Birkhead fears for the effect that higher fees will have on teaching

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: PhD - Pathetic, hopeless, Dire

Managers may promote the use of technology in teaching purely with a view to saving money, but students want face-to-face interaction with inspirational teachers they can admire

Peter Hallward describes why he joined the demonstration on 9 December, and gives his personal account of how events unfolded that day

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: No flag of surrender

William Evans argues that UUK cannot represent a fragmented academy, as competing interests require special-interest groups

By backing coalition plans for higher fees, UUK president Steve Smith has failed students and universities, argues Aaron Porter

Sally Feldman fears the loss of EMAs will leave thousands without a future

Impact pilot case studies give scant guidance as they bear little relation to most departments' output, argues Peter Barry

Although higher education has not been named a culprit in Ireland¡¯s crisis, Anto Kerins thinks some serious soul-searching is in order

In the face of coalition cuts and reform, v-cs' appeasement strategy isn't working. Time to speak up, says Aeron Davis

James Williams argues that the education secretary's 'look-and-learn' model will create a generation of pedagogues who are faking it

Post-Browne, universities can still come up trumps. How? By recruiting pensioners, explain Alasdair Smith and Iain Smith

UUK's readiness to toe the government line ignores the troubling questions at the heart of the coalition's proposals

The coalition must admit the downsides of its reforms, demands Kevin Fong