Female chemistry PhD students are 50 per cent more likely to gain a permanent job in academia if their supervisor is a woman, a new study indicates.

The University of Cambridge has launched a new public policy institute to address inequality and social unrest across the world, after receiving a “major gift” from a philanthropist.

Black students in the US are more likely to graduate if they attend a historically black university rather than a predominantly white institution, according to research.  

Twelve member institutions of the University of London, including UCL and King’s College London, are planning to apply for university status in their own right, subject to a bill on the federal institution completing its passage through the UK’s Parliament.

The UK’s Department for Education has allowed a second for-profit institution to use “university” in its name when it does not have the credentials to secure the title under established processes, giving the green light to the “University Campus of Football Business”.

Gender parity in science remains a distant goal, with men set to outnumber women in publishing in many fields until at least the end of the century.

Participation in Australian tertiary education is set to plunge, robbing the country of skills to fuel a knowledge economy, researchers have warned.

Economics is a discipline with a communication problem: its practitioners have struggled to gain traction in debates over the rise of populism globally and, in the UK, were the target of Brexit campaigners who claimed that the people in the country had “had enough of experts”.

Students have a fondness for sharing their views about their universities online, whether they are sounding off or singing its praises.

Foreign academics are being left with thousands of pounds in debt after being forced to foot the bill for visas and permanent residency costs to continue working in UK universities, some have told Times Higher Education.