A drive has been launched to make the UK the world’s first country where all scientists are professionally recognised, to help benchmark standards in academia.

As the country succeeds in attracting even more students from overseas, a mixture of demographics, ‘soft power’ concerns and local politics help explain its policy

Satirical take on sector also has serious message for university leaders

The next UK government must move quickly to introduce a “more liberal” visa system for highly skilled academics to prevent a flight of researchers after Brexit, according to a committee of MPs.

UK universities’ failure to safeguard freedom of speech is one of the “great problems of our time”, according to Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former chancellor of the Exchequer.

If you want an apt metaphor for the state of modern America, you could do worse than take a stroll through the grounds of Texas’ state Capitol.

A research project can be a headache for an academic at the best of times, but what if you were the lead researcher of a study that encompassed more than 200 colleagues, based at multiple locations across the country?

Just 14 per cent of Americans have “a great deal of confidence” in universities, according to research.

The majority of low-income students in the US who are qualified to attend selective universities go to open-access colleges instead, according to a report that shows that most elite institutions could increase enrolment of poor students without significantly hurting their academic standards, graduation rates or budgets.

US congressional leaders have announced a 6 per cent budget increase for the National Institutes of Health, just weeks after Donald Trump proposed for its funding allocation to decline by 18 per cent.