Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard have topped a new ranking of the most innovative universities.

The government has for the first time publicly named universities that have hosted speakers voicing views that are “contrary to British values” as it introduces a duty on institutions to counter “extremist” speakers on campus.

The decline in Chinese students attending US graduate schools is expected to cause major problems for the country’s postgraduate sector given its huge reliance on this cohort,

The US’ public higher education system has engaged in an “un-excellence initiative” that will lead to a drop in the quality of its universities ...

When I got my first academic job in 1996, it was easy enough to be invisible.

A new multi-university doctoral training scheme is set to create one of the UK’s largest cohorts of PhD students.

Ever since I was obliged to take a marketing module as part of my BSc in applied physics, I’ve been amused and bemused by the stark contrast that exists between teaching theoretical concepts in my discipline and the approach adopted in marketing theory (as it’s called).

Universities expend considerable efforts to be seen as “public thought leaders” that drive the big debates.

Theses in open-access repository at Dublin City University have been downloaded 650,000 times

I have just read the news that Plymouth University has appointed Judith Petts as its new vice-chancellor.