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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

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

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

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Should I stay or should I go?

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

Librarians remain an often unseen and unappreciated element of good teaching and research. Tara Brabazon interviews an extraordinary one about the challenges the profession faces at the front line of scholarship in the 21st century

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

MEP and academic Maria da Graça Carvalho outlines the EU's response to demands to streamline research funding bureaucracy

Reactions to Prince William's engagement, A.W. Purdue says, show just how far our social order has shifted

Trying to make the Lib Dems keep their pre-election pledge on tuition should be just one tactic in the NUS' arsenal, recommends Ivor Gaber

With Browne's vision fading, Alan Ryan bemoans a lack of creative thinking

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: How to destroy another human being

The arts inject ethics and creativity into the MBA curriculum, argues Stefano Harney; their demise would be disastrous

Peter Geoghegan argues that the coalition's policy of drastic cuts is flawed and heralds an upsurge of discontent not seen for decades

The narrow make-up of the Browne panel provides evidence of a profound shift in higher education policymaking, says Gareth Dale

Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a dazzling display of gridiron, greatness and God

Jerome de Groot’s Consuming History offers a forensic examination of modern culture’s sentimental, simplistic repackaging of the past. Tara Brabazon admires its corrective qualities

Ethnic minorities and the poor may be priced out of university. It will be a loss for them, for society and for academia, warns Nabil Ahmed

The Browne Review’s narrow economic approach will leave vital non-STEM subjects at the whim of fad and fashion and ultimately undermine the academy, argues Gerald Pillay

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

Although post-cuts upheavals loom, says Rick Rylance, we must believe that the humanities' strengths will endure

David Eastwood complains of much misunderstanding in responses to the Browne Review. His advice is to read it before voicing criticism

Malcolm Gillies questions the maths behind the new student loan policy

Judy Simons declares that the cultural and societal benefits of the arts are transformative, calculable and must be advertised

@Lord_Browne gained a following by poking fun at UK higher education’s upheavals. Now silenced by Twitter, he tells Sarah Cunnane about real universities, the trouble with students and how many Russell Group v-cs it takes to change a light bulb

The Royal Society Prize for Science Books stimulates public interest and is too important to be allowed to disappear, says Maggie Philbin

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Pontius Pilate I am not...

We don't need any more world-class universities, says Rebecca Hughes; what we do need is greater diversity

In a post-cuts landscape, David Docherty contends, the onus is on the academy to find ways to draw in vital corporate investment

Institutions must focus closely on their duty of care for students with mental health difficulties, say Alastair Wilson and Richard Brunner

In competitive times, it's hard to avoid hype in a prospectus, says Tim Birkhead

Harold Innis was a professor at the same institution for decades – but while he remained steadfastly local and empirical, he probed the expansive variables of space and time. Tara Brabazon reveres the Canadian historian and economist

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Worth the paper it's written on

As Kristin Luker's work shows, it is autonomous scholarship that makes social science 'relevant', argues Ellie Lee

James Tooley is excited by the prospect of greater competition in higher education but warns of the threat from creeping bureaucracy

Successful overseas ventures must stick to core values while adapting to local cultures and regulation, says Christine Ennew

Or how Sally Feldman's iPad went from cuddly kitty to proud panther

Peer review is being co-opted into the political process, says Sandy Starr, at the cost of impartiality and independence

The coalition’s qualified support for science recognises that universities are the ‘jewels’ in the UK’s economic crown, argues Paul Clark. But the huge cuts to non-STEM teaching require decisions to be made about Lord Browne’s plans – and quickly

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Blowing the whistle on corruption

Browne's fee-for-all will challenge universities' price-fixing skills and applicants' mathematics, warns Helen Carasso

Geoffrey Crossick says that short-term crisis should not be allowed to curtail Britain's ability to succeed in a changing environment

If only Tony Blair had understood class, we wouldn't be in this mess. Bring back the material realities of British life, says Mary Evans

Lord Browne's rhetoric is all about freeing universities, but his plans could result in 'a state-controlled and regulated industry'

Kevin Fong argues that cutting science funding will be bad for Britain