Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry. Read more

A mobile phone app which supports people recovering from hip and knee surgery could save a Devon hospital trust up to £50,000 a year, doctors have said. Read more

The American Association of University Professors and other academic groups won a resounding victory on Tuesday when a judge ruled that the Trump administration had “chilled” their members’ rights to express their views. Read more

The panel’s overriding concern is to ensure that research is used productively. But observers worry that pushing universities to specialise in centrally determined ‘focus areas’ risks inadvertently turning them, in effect, into government agencies Read more

The design aesthetics of American institutions of higher education often make students from lower-socioeconomic and racially minoritized backgrounds feel like outsiders on their own campuses Read more

A growing number of young workers are skipping the traditional college route and finding careers in skilled trades. Four in 10 Gen Z workers say they’re turning to blue-collar jobs for security, according to recent surveys. Read more

The lengthy ruling chastises two federal departments for their “invidious” efforts to chill pro-Palestinian speech and declares unequivocally that noncitizens in the U.S. are entitled to the full protection of the First Amendment. Read more

In 1905, archaeologists at Serabit el-Khadim in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula uncovered mysterious inscriptions carved into the walls of a 4,000-year-old turquoise mine. The strange symbols, later called Proto-Sinaitic, puzzled scholars for decades, until they realised they were looking at the earliest alphabet in history. View more

The federal government careened into a widespread shutdown shortly after midnight on Wednesday, adding yet another wrinkle to an increasingly acrimonious relationship between the Trump administration and higher education. Read more

Australian study finds that philosophers outearn motor mechanics – on average Read more