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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

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

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

National university league tables are aimed at student consumers, but the revamped 91ÇÑ×Ó World University Rankings have a broader constituency: the global academy in all its variety. Phil Baty reports

Attention all sixth-formers: worried about securing a university place? How about a period of volunteering during which you can learn new skills, help the community and gain a financial fillip before the academy beckons, suggests James Derounian

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Clearing the absent mind from overload

Mutability is our tragedy: Gary Day on the impact of a new name, a new identity or a new pair of breasts

Anshul Tomer, a successful actor and singer, is thankful for the life-changing experience of studying in Edinburgh

John Turner has given up trying to please everyone. Restricting the choices of a few is a necessary part of protecting the majority

Teaching graduates how to think will help them get jobs, says Tim Birkhead

Finland has recognised broadband access to the internet as essential to citizenship; Australia and others still lag unacceptably far behind, writes Tara Brabazon

The past 10 years have seen their fair share of ups and downs for higher education in Ireland, but Ferdinand von Prondzynski, outgoing president of Dublin City University, leaves his post with more than a hint of optimism for the future

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

Boredom, fear and bloodshed: Duncan Wu on a provocatively frank view of the war in Afghanistan

A rewarding education set up a relationship for life, woven into my work as a composer, says Cheryl Frances-Hoad

The UK sector should tackle undergraduates' poor written English via a nationally prescribed update of the US model, urges Alex Baratta

In this age of austerity, we need to fund excellence, say David Price and Stephen Caddick

Universities must serve up pedagogy fit for the 21st century or suffer the consequences in reputational terms

Need to decipher a CV? Channel your inner detective, says Sally Feldman

It wasn't just the clubbing: the psychology degree and skills gained at university come in handy as a DJ, says Nemone

To maintain our high standards of education, we must enforce the most elemental requirement: attendance. Adrian Quinn writes

A bleak film about a teenager's hopeless struggle to save her family is totally convincing, writes Duncan Wu

In a competitive global market, the UK academy must be price-sensitive when it comes to overseas fees or pay the price

Yes it¡¯s complex, but the graduate tax is the least of all evils, says Kevin Fong

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

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

Olympic sportsman, practising lawyer and Lib Dem leader, Menzies Campbell puts it all down to his time at university

Canada is using its relative economic strength to attract world-class students, scientists and researchers, says Amit Chakma

Gary Day watches a story of spiralling debt and fails to be uplifted by a fairy-tale take on unemployment

To restore faith after Climategate, researchers must be clearer about the limits of peer review and transparent in their workings

A flawed graduate tax will harm students and the sector, says Alan Ryan

Sir David Watson rates the performance of Cable and Willetts and offers them his vision of the academy¡¯s future ¨C a flexible but united sector providing long-term learning on American lines

The success of forensic science must not blind the discipline to the truths to be gleaned from studying the chaos of criminality, argues Stephen Wade

As world league tables gain influence they need to reflect the multi-faceted nature of universities¡¯ activities, says Seeram Ramakrishna

Prejudice still prevails in Harper Lee's home town, finds Gary Day, who also ponders bovine romanticism

The academy needs to cast off its exclusionary conventions and make its publications accessible to non-specialists and the public

There's no honourable way to plan a best-seller, says Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

If UK business leaders want a highly skilled workforce, they must lend a hand, says Santander's Ant¨®nio Horta-Os¨®rio

Postgraduate study is vital for the economy but the UK has struggled to fund it. Don Nutbeam suggests Australia has found the answer

Tara Brabazon identifies 10 scholarly uses for Apple¡¯s latest gadget, and the new ways of reading, writing, watching and thinking that the platform supports