Ebenezer Scroose walked the street home in a state of low-energised rage: his usual feeling tone nowadays.

The strange new world of cyborg mermaids, “teledildonics” and Japanese robots modelled on Scarlett Johansson came under academic scrutiny at a conference last month.

Universities should be providing students with the skills to understand and handle media manipulation, say academics behind a new study

Drexel University and one of its professors faced an onslaught of criticism for his Christmas Eve tweet saying, “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”

The UK college owned by FTSE 100 company Pearson is aiming to be a “boutique university” that is limited in size, with plans to help the wider company implement its “strategic direction” in education rather than compete directly with universities.

Fewer than one in five professors at Dutch universities are women, a study on the Netherlands’ “ruthlessly thick” glass ceiling has revealed.

Fixing problems in the academic job market by reducing the number of PhDs would homogenise the sector, argues Tom Cutterham

At least a dozen German research institutions have started the new year without access to Elsevier journals after an acrimonious breakdown in licence negotiations between the country’s research organisations and the publisher.

An amendment has been proposed to the Higher Education and Research Bill that would make it an “offence to provide or advertise cheating services”.

The UK government has been told to restructure funding for higher education rather than “ply on more debt” for students ...