Cheap transport options have long served as a lifeline for many budgeting academics, but now low-cost airline flights have been proven to increase research collaborations between scientists.

The Indian government’s decision to grant 60 universities “autonomous” status has been hailed as a “welcome step”, but question marks remain over how it will impact public funding of higher education.

Male academics with small children garner significantly more citations for their papers, while for female researchers, motherhood is linked to a drop in citations, according to a study.

Fresh calls have been made to tackle a crisis of overwork and poor mental health in academia in the wake of two worrying new studies.

The student intake by background in many Russell Group universities is as imbalanced as income inequality in some of the world’s poorest countries, new analysis suggests.

Higher education has long been known to have a gender pay gap but the sector’s performance in the UK government’s nationwide data collection exercise is nonetheless shocking.

Research institutions, first in Germany and now in France, are finding that publishers do not cut off access to journals – even when they stop paying

A new online platform dubbed the “legal Sci-Hub” is set for major expansion, promising to offer academics “one-click access” to millions of journal articles and research papers.

European universities and research organisations could save hundreds of millions of euros a year by switching to an open access publishing system, a new analysis of subscription deals with publishers has concluded.

Academics have predicted a crackdown on Confucius Institutes across the West, as the UK becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the role and influence of the Chinese government-funded centres.