Scientists are being offered a $1,000 (£705) prize if they pre-register their plans for experiments in a bid to make research results more reproducible.

The mass rejection of research papers by selective journals in a bid to achieve a high impact factor is an enormous waste of academics’ time, advocates of open access publishing have argued.

Oriel College, Oxford has decided to keep a controversial statue of the Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes in place after months of debate about whether it should be torn down.

Are women more likely than men to include works by women on a syllabus?

Washington State University on Monday announced that it would not allow instructors to make "blanket" bans on the use of certain words or phrases in class, even if those words and phrases offend people.

Seven months ago free community college was the higher ed policy idea with the most buzz

Talk about graduate school being broken is beginning to sound like a broken record

Come November, the University of Iowa will have a businessman with little experience in academe at its helm -- and many faculty members and others in Iowa City aren’t happy about it.

While Bernie Sanders has been attracting considerable support on campuses ...

The head of Australia's opposition party signaled how his party plans to approach higher education in next year's elections -- and university officials there are alarmed.