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Call to put differences aside, ahead of UCU Congress in Brighton

Where have all the student satirists gone? wonders Sally Feldman

Moving health research and education funding to the Department of Health may mean higher education loses its voice

Getting image permissions for monographs is costly, slow and vexing

Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour

Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic

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Universities are more important than ever to the development of great cities and knowledge economies, argues John Sexton

The gulf between the QAA benchmark on study time and the hours students put in raises questions about its judgement

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) produces the majority of Russian research - but are its members, set to vote for a new president, “serfs”?

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Christopher Bigsby on the declining art of taking a hike

Technology augments but cannot supersede intuition, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Research facility clusters mean the benefits are too localised, say Henry Overman and Christian Helmers

The humanities classroom offers reflection of a healthier sort, says Robert Zaretsky

Reformed graduate rock band provokes reflections on how much has changed since the heyday of ‘Spontaneous Emissions’

As research intensives band together to pool resources, they could be showing us the best way to weather the downturn

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Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader

The work of making students ‘college-ready’ must begin sooner, says Alan Ryan

Andy Westwood and Martin Doel map a route between FE and HE

Humanities scholars must use dash and pluck to win research cash

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Rather than the academy relaxing its ethical standards, perhaps areas of the media need to raise their game, argues Keith Richards

It’s not what you teach but how that matters, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Nicola Dandridge says mixed messages on immigration aid competitor nations’ university sectors

If creativity can’t be taught, the invaluable craft of writing can, says novelist and Bath Spa professor

In the training of teachers, ministers seem determined to sideline universities with little thought for the consequences

All across the US, colleges and universities are sending out their letters of acceptance and rejection. There will be tears

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Malcolm Gillies on the controversial composer’s undimmed power

Toby Miller recalls a paralysing encounter with terror in the skies and asks: in my shoes, would you have reacted differently?

The LSE’s complaints about being kept in the dark about undercover reporting in North Korea are peevish, Tim Luckhurst argues

Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure

Geraldine Van Bueren says international law could help opponents of rising tuition costs in their battle

It is morally wrong to deny University of Sussex students 24/7 support from flexible, professional campus services, says John Duffy

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A rising proportion of university applicants will have vocational qualifications. The sector must respond, says Mary Curnock Cook

Kevin Fong boldly takes science to pupils in post-Thatcher, post-Spock galaxies

The need to run a tight financial ship is important, but it cannot be the sole determiner of the shape of higher education