Blockchain is the technology that some think will shake up banking, currency and the very nature of commercial contracts.

A new metric measuring how often a scientist cites their own work, sometimes a means of boosting their academic standing, has been proposed by a group of researchers.

The president of New York University has played down suggestions that the election of Donald Trump as US president will trigger a downturn in international student recruitment.

Jo Johnson will step up his calls for “restraint” in vice-chancellors’ pay by setting out instructions for England’s Office for Students to “use its powers” on the issue, including the potential use of fines.

England’s new university access tsar must be a “strong public advocate” for the widening participation agenda in higher education, a leading sector expert has said.

Historians like to say that everything has a history. Yet the natural sciences remain somewhat removed from academic debates over what to do with monuments tied to dark chapters in American history.

The return that graduates get from higher education may be showing signs of plateauing in some countries, data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s latest Education at a Glance report suggest.

For-profit higher education and international recruitment agents will benefit from the current wave of nationalism in the US and Europe, according to two leading scholars of international higher education.

Since Times Higher Education’s latest annual analysis of the pay packages of UK vice-chancellors was published, the focus on leaders’ remuneration has ratcheted up a fair notch or two.

The number of English-taught bachelor’s programmes being offered by European universities has increased 50-fold in the past eight years, according to a major study.