A biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on the process for degrading and recycling cellular components.

The success rate for grant proposals at UK research councils has fallen again despite efforts to weed out weak applications ...

The UK government’s latest plan to restrict overseas student visas will deter applicants and benefit rival nations ...

EU students applying to start courses at English universities in 2017-18 will continue to be eligible for funding for their whole course, the government has guaranteed.

Staff and students are “cynical” about and “suspicious” of their university’s efforts to become more international, research has found.

Niccolò Machiavelli was unlikely to have been thinking about scientific misconduct when he wrote “one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived” in The Prince.

Researcher explores the exploitation of academics at the country’s private universities.

The UK government is spending £4 million on a campaign to attract overseas students to the nation’s universities...

Academic research is “in crisis” in much of the Middle East and North Africa as growing security concerns compound problems of nepotism and poor infrastructure, a study says.

The larger the bursary a student receives, the more likely they are to get a good degree, according to a major study.