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Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham

Brain-boosting drugs can help students and academics alike to unlock their potential, says Hemmel Amrania

Enduring popularity of flesh-eating monsters is a response to real threats, says Marcus Leaning

Replacing England’s tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis

Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala’Aldeen

Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy

Book of the week: Behind a veneer of amiability, Randy Malamud finds discord, cruelty and a ‘cultural charade’

The publication game that researchers are obliged to play has stripped the purpose out of social research. Time to change the rules, says Yiannis Gabriel

Many students aren’t reporting sexual harassment or assault on campus despite efforts to tackle the problem, say Hareem Ghani and Graham Towl

Prevent monitoring and defeat of legal challenge shows that anti-extremism policy is not limiting academic freedom, says Hifsa Harron-Iqbal

Expanding degree apprenticeships will strengthen universities’ important role in improving their local communities, says Dawn Morley

The notion that only the ‘left-behind’ poor are xenophobic is a myth, Eliane Glaser learns

Steven Yearley considers the argument that metropolitan centres, not nation states, hold the power to take the lead on climate change

At 1967’s Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, radicals preached Black Power, existential psychiatry, free universities and more. Martin Levy reports on an event that was as much a happening as an academic conference

The UK's ‘red line’ on free movement of labour may prevent its students from participating in the Erasmus exchange programme, says European Union law expert

Even scientists may be unmoved by evidence on how to make teaching better, finds Jennifer Rohn

‘Nice’ kids are still being told not to do ‘it’, setting off a dangerous dissembling, says Angelia Wilson

A study of female NGO workers and the migrants they interact with examines the relationship in all its complexity, says Emma Rees

It is not Luddism to be cautious about destroying an academic publishing industry that has served us well, says Marilyn Deegan

Research finds undergraduates ‘self-sort’ by gender and ethnicity for group work

‘Staggering’ scale of persecution of Turkish academia condemned by scholars’ group

London Economics shows how less well-off graduates will repay more than higher-earning peers

University attacked by 750 academics for forcing entire professoriate to reapply for jobs

Higher proportion of black students in London may contribute to capital’s higher dropout rates, says SMF

Calls among graduates to limit student numbers are not selfish, but may instead reflect concern about the value of university education, say Duncan Watson and Robert Webb

Gill Seyfang - who is presenting at the Higher Education Academy's annual conference - explains how improv comedy in lectures can inspire students

Call for rankings to give more weight to societal impact

Emily Van Duyne on why she missed graduation despite being passionately committed to her students

‘Shocking’ shift away from fundamental projects harms country's scientific reputation, says author of report

A divided nation where the rich rule the working poor is not limited to fiction, finds Nicola Ingram

For those interested in imagining the kind of world we want to live in, Guy Standing’s case for providing all citizens with a basic income makes a convincing read, says Lorenza Antonucci

Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on the gruelling truths faced by injured soldiers, and their carers and families

Robert J. Mayhew finds the pioneering environmental thinker’s meditations on population, resources and ecology more relevant than ever

Sir Christopher Snowden, former Universities UK president, attacks ratings in wake of Southampton’s bronze award

A polemic against the new McCarthyism in US universities catches Jane O’Grady’s attention

Some vice-chancellors will decry the results of the teaching excellence framework, but should recognise areas of poor teaching it exposes, says Edward Peck

As student loan debt in the UK passes £100 billion, Sir Keith Burnett says it’s time we faced up to the real cost of tuition fees and debt

Campus safe spaces are bad for democracy and open debate, but academics must respond to the genuine concerns they represent, says James Wicks

A thoughtful study by the head of Utrecht University focuses on the forces reshaping the sector, says David Wheeler

Clare Bambra commends a polemic that shines a light on the fatal flaws in US healthcare policy

Matthew Feldman appreciates an enlightening exploration of radicalisation and its causes

Book of the week: From staff in nappies to hassled waitresses, a study of work is full of justified rage, says Philip Roscoe

Publication of data showing long-term graduate earnings by discipline has huge potential to improve higher education, says Jack Britton

Catherine Clinton admires an intimate portrayal of US presidents’ wives and those they subjugated

A detailed examination of the motivation behind suicide bombing is a must-read, says Christina Hellmich

Lisa Mckenzie finds a new lesson in Orwell's classic every time she reads it – and this year, it concerns some of her fellow scholars

Terry Dray explains what other institutions can learn from Liverpool John Moores University’s recent review of career development services

Objections to co-authorship with juniors display a misguided sense of ethics, say Mark Hayter and Roger Watson

Human rights lawyer faces jail for sharing post by exiled academic under Thailand’s lese-majesty rules

New president keen to support Paris institution’s ‘agility’, according to its leader

Increased scrutiny of US sector and distrust of academics puts traditional quality assurance models in question

Figures highlight challenges faced by European universities seeking to educate refugees

A brilliant study examines the wide variety of markets for trafficked human beings, writes Jonathan Mirsky

Lisa Mckenzie heaps praise on a study that records the emotional costs of complicated household budgets

We discuss realising what it means to be black in the UK, dealing with insomnia, and institutional racism in the academy, with the renowned race and black identity scholar

Many actors helped to usher agents of the food court in to US city centres, says Bart Elmore

The Duke of York’s support for London Met shows how the Royal Family can make a difference in higher education, says Jack Grove

Comparing free-market politics with state socialism may be an intellectual dead end, says Aniko Horvath

June Purvis on the female pioneers on the frontline in the war to end all wars

East Asia’s most iconic garment is as dynamic as any Western mode of dress, finds Joy Hendry