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Alan Ryan proposes that there should be no cap on tuition fees, grants for the talented poor should return and universities should lose their safety net

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

Computers can auto-generate processes, so can we really use them for scientific research if we can't control them? asks Aleks Krotoski

The sector needs agreement on pensions and job security if it is to resist savage coalition cuts, argues Sally Hunt

Mike Boxall and Paul Woodgates explain how universities can thrive despite mass retrenchment and pressure from private competitors

Changes ahead on the higher education horizon may prove the making of some institutions and the breaking of others

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto deplores scholarly reviewing's tarnished golden rule

We all collude in the hype cycle that turns shiny ¡®new media¡¯ into forgotten, junk-generating ¡®dead media¡¯, and it¡¯s time to look at the costs, argues Tara Brabazon

To secure our future in hard times, we must make tough choices and ensure that society is aware of higher education¡¯s value, argues Paul Marshall

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

Higher fees should reflect an institution's quality, rather than status, so we should start measuring it, argues Graham Gibbs

Does religion give us purpose, or has history been tailored to give one version of events, asks Gary Day

UK research is not in decline, but to secure its future we need to spread the word about its benefits, says Alan Thorpe

Malcolm Gillies applies the rules of lane swimming etiquette to funding

In the wake of Benedict XVI¡¯s British visit, Robert Segal deconstructs the Pope¡¯s protestations about the potency of religion

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online

Big bursaries are not enticing the poor into elite institutions; targeted outreach may be an answer, says Sir Martin Harris

University research generates ideas and keeps the country competitive - so we must protect its funding, argues Paul Wellings

The politics of the North-South divide gave material for many gritty novels of the 1960s, says Gary Day

Tim Birkhead on universities' courtship of their next cohort of students

Tara Brabazon shares her 10-step regime for steering emotionally drained postgraduate students through the final stages of their thesis

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Body, not mind

George Watson defends a much-maligned institution that is simply the best political idea mankind has had

John Henry Newman's vision for university revolutionised the global academy. David Grumett discusses its development and impact

Gary Day finds that some people survive disaster and war through sheer luck and improvisation

If Jane Austen can flout the rules of grammar so can I, writes Sally Feldman

For-profit providers need scrutiny, but so do their non-profit cousins, to ensure the delivery of quality education efficiently

Kevin Fong¡¯s inability to resist his smartphone threatens his family vacation

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: There are always alternatives

Employee ownership could help preserve the university as a site of research and teaching, suggests Steve Fuller

Kenneth Baker calls on universities to seek financial independence from the state, and for the state to handle a precious asset with care

Gary Day on a harrowing tale of modern-day slavery that he fears will have no impact on its reality

The creative industries must be given as much support as STEM subjects to keep the UK at the forefront of the world economy, argues David Docherty

Social media allow academics to support students and colleagues, network and explore new intellectual connections, argues Tara Brabazon

Your chance to advise on academic dilemmas. Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Let the new era of austerity commence?

If Lord Browne uncaps fees, the Golden Age of the English university may well come to an unseemly end, writes Paul Benneworth

Gary Day finds the presenters of Secret Britain intrusive and marvels over Anglo-Saxon treasures

US for-profits are a mixed bag but they meet a real need, says Alan Ryan

What makes a novelist? Irritability? Unhappiness? Gary Day wonders whether in future it will matter

The government is mistaken to continue arguing that science graduates alone are the key to delivering economic growth

Researchers need the freedom to take risks, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: More smoke than fire?

Student life gave Roxanne Pallett a blank canvas from which to reinvent herself and the confidence to follow her dreams

We have the technology to share knowledge, says Malcolm Read, but researchers need to work towards a culture of openness

David Cameron¡¯s vision for Britain threatens associations such as the Research Information Network that help boost UK productivity and efficiency, argues Tara Brabazon

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

A dustman for 12 years, octogenarian Ernie Sharp was more than qualified to do a degree in waste management

The UK's first-class knowledge economy will be consigned to second-class status if the axe is wielded too savagely, Steve Smith warns

The Norman Conquest and the Domesday Book offer great sparring material, says Gary Day

The UK and California both face a shortfall of university places, but at least snobbery isn't making things worse across the pond

One man's music is so often another man's noise, laments Malcolm Gillies