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As several UK universities outlaw sex between academics and students, two writers offer differing views on the Office for Students’ proposed ban

After years of resisting university managers determined to graduate students at all costs, one US professor decided it was time to quit

Chinese universities now operate on a confusing ‘mixture of Chinese and Western institutional logics’. An anonymous scholar describes the practical and emotional challenges of dealing with constant uncertainty

Sexism, unthinking managerialism and toxic ‘them and us’ attitudes are still pervasive within UK universities, according to an anonymous academic who found the dissonances between her values, career expectations and lived reality too much to bear

A lecturer describes how her university failed to act when she was racially victimised by a student receiving mental health support

Human beings can only work at full capacity for so long before they become incapable of doing any work at all, says an anonymous university employee

Marketisation, precarity and global competition have combined to create a vast market for academic ghostwriting, says an anonymous scholar

An anonymous university leader muses about what could happen to higher education in the UK if tuition fees are slashed

As university staff gear up to strike, one student explains exactly what the strikes are about and why students should stand in solidarity with their lecturers

Students are being hoodwinked into enrolling on ‘trendy’ new degree programmes that are, according to one concerned academic, little more than a marketing exercise