Unconscious bias training should be mandatory for all staff on university recruitment and promotion panels to help eliminate potentially racist hiring decisions, a review has said.

Those tasked with writing letters to incoming freshmen frequently wonder if anyone reads them.

Monica Inzer often sees applicants and their families taking photographs of themselves around the towering statue of the man after whom the US university where she works is named: Alexander Hamilton.

Around one in eight undergraduates at UK universities believe they have a mental health condition, according to a major survey that reveals that these students are significantly more likely to consider dropping out of their course.

Graduates from Russell Group universities earn almost £7,000 a year more on average than UK graduates in general at the age of 40, according to a major study on the lifetime earnings of university leavers.

A behavioural economics journal is trialling a novel and controversial way of making sure peer reviewers submit their reviews on time – releasing a ranking of how quickly they respond.

It will be “impossible” for Russia’s universities to become internationally competitive as long as academic science and medical research take place outside universities in specialised academies.

Universities are failing to make best use of Twitter and may promote “inaccurate” depictions of themselves via the social network, a major study says.

Being unpaid, unloved and unknown for their troubles, anonymous peer reviewers must often feel they have one of academia’s most thankless jobs.

Whenever people talk about excellence in education, the Nordic countries are rarely far from their lips.