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US administrators will destroy academic freedom if they cite it to maintain autonomy over admissions and hiring, says James F. O¡¯Brien

Let¡¯s focus concern about AI¡¯s energy and water use where it can make the biggest difference and demand accountability from developers, says Cal Innes

Sector lobbyists may be partly responsible for the Public Accounts Committee¡¯s over-emphasis on commercial outcomes, says B.V.E. Hyde  

Rather than spreading resources thinly, better to build two or three true educational hubs in key regions beyond the capital, says Theodore Jun Yoo

Peer networks give male students confidence and visibility. Female mentorship, affinity groups and curricular changes can help push back, says Ava Doherty

If we don¡¯t develop policies now, being deepfaked and doxed will become an ever-present risk, say Janine Arantes, Andrew Welsman and Bec Marland

Increased fees will be hard to swallow but we are working hard to reduce the regulatory burden, says Susan Lapworth

The Oxford-Cambridge Arc universities kept the faith, but the sector¡¯s current focus is inevitably on shorter-term priorities, says Alistair Lomax

As academics fear being replaced by AI, the security staff who wave them through every morning are being replaced by strangers, says George Bass 

Volume-driven publishing pushes up costs and threatens research integrity. We need new agreements with healthier incentives, says Anna Vernon

A significant budget boost, including for the ERC, MSCA and EIC, must not be undermined by the next two years of wrangling, says Jan Palmowski

The government¡¯s ?54 million scheme will bring top researchers¡¯ thinking to life, often spinning out into innovative new businesses, says Patrick Vallance

Avoiding official stances on contested issues clears the way for individuals to speak out ¨C including university leaders, says Abhishek Saha

The government¡¯s huge loan scheme for firms to collaborate with academia could be a game changer if the benefits are widely spread, says Eldho Mathews

New regulations are due to take force next month but leaders are not doing enough on prevention and response, say Graham Towl and Clarissa DiSantis

Cambridge and Manchester¡¯s blueprint will build on existing assets and address real constraints to deliver results quickly, say Deborah Prentice and Duncan Ivison

The alumni reunion events that I am launching as Cardiff chancellor will cement lifetime engagement and, hopefully, donations, says Laura Trevelyan

Facing a thesis whose bibliography alone was longer than any essay I¡¯d ever written, I was convinced that this time I¡¯d gone too far, says Polly Penter

Current enrolment rates are increasingly misaligned with NHS capacity for clinical placements, never mind graduate recruitment, says Ruth Pearce

Trump¡¯s assaults on science in the US present an opportunity that the university would be unwise to spurn, says chancellor candidate Gina Miller

Legally compliant councils and functioning audit committees don¡¯t entail social justice, intellectual dynamism or civic relevance, says Fulufhelo Nemavhola

South Korea hopes to enrol 300,000 international students by 2027, but more teaching in English could deepen domestic inequalities, says Kyuseok Kim 

Teaching assistants have demanded fair pay for years but industrial action has made little progress. AI offers a significant raise, notes Michael Buehler

Restrictions on what models will discuss are necessary, but ill-informed blocks distort inquiry, say Lorna Waddington and Richard de Blacquiere-Clarkson

Instead of treating certificates and diplomas as afterthoughts, most universities could offer and market them as stand-alone achievements, says Vivek Pundir

Even in the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of London¡¯s formal federation, differing ¡®coalitions of the willing¡¯ are formed in different operational areas, says David Latchman

Countering the US president¡¯s divisive misuse of genetics starts with asking the right research questions, says Mareile Kaufmann 

In recent decades, the post has been seen as purely ceremonial. But there is precedent and justification for a more interventionist role, says Wyn Evans 

The assassination of nuclear scientists has deepened the sense that scholars have become targets of geopolitical violence, says Roohola Ramezani

Universities in the Global North must treat those in the Global South as equals, sharing resources, leadership, authorship and IP, says Manuel Barcia

Western countries should reflect on whether their approach is privileging certain forms of knowledge, language and mobility, says Cheryl Yu

Our paper was rejected on the basis of reviewer comments that were vague, formulaic, often irrelevant and occasionally inaccurate, says Seongjin Hong

Medical schools in high-income countries should expand training capacity, foster global collaborations and promote ethical practices, says Danica Sims