PPE students, if well-schooled, learn that saying something doesn’t make it true – and the degree is enjoying a growth spurt

With UK and US citizens rebelling against anything and everything, it would be easy for derided experts just to give up – Jonathan Wolff

The Brexit vote has placed British higher education at a tipping point to international decline

Brexit is likely to reduce the number of high-fee students, and neither donations nor industry have eased the financial pressure on universities

It is time to revisit the higher education syllabus: who is in, who is out, and why

The present system means researchers with useful characteristics such as caution and humility may find it harder to get grants

Many university staff are gloomy not so much about the implications for student mobility, but the crucial issue of political cooperation

Come into my office – someone using your coffee machine is a serious business …

Teamwork doesn’t suit everyone, but collaborating with others at university is a rehearsal for working life

At my university, 25% of UK undergraduates are on the so-called full grant. Now poorer students will be squeezed even more

With space costly, universities now expect academics to work in open-plan spaces. We will pay the price in other ways

Institutions that score well on the Teaching Excellence Framework will be allowed to raise tuition fees – but will the TEF really intensify progress?

The Research Excellence Framework needs to change so universities all get credit – and funding – where credit is due

Instead of replacing the stress of final exams, the modular system has replicated it six times over. Maybe finals were not so bad after all …

Many people contribute to an academic paper and not many are credited. In the words of Pharrell Williams, there are blurred lines

Only one person in seven with a doctorate finds a university post – yet the numbers enrolling for PhDs have never been greater

Universities need to look hard at whether the taste for a certain style of language discriminates against students who express themselves less formally

The final salary scheme has to give way, but this creates an equality issue: many of the worst affected will be women

When 25 university departments can each prove that they came in the top three, rankings are over

As we anxiously await the results we should remember what these assessments have made us strive for, says Jonathan Wolff