"Contra-power" harassment of professors by students isn't that common, but it's a real problem.

Wellcome Trust and UK Research & Innovation launch reviews of policies that require funded papers to be made freely available

Online learning platform Coursera is set to offer its first degrees from UK universities, including its first ever bachelor’s programme.

Study finds "strikingly high" rates of depression and anxiety, with many reporting little help or support from supervisors

In a lesson on how to be teachers, Sean Connors told his students not to teach.

When thinking about how to revive economically lagging regions, especially in the Rust Belt, I often talk about the importance of universities.

The European Union is set to miss its target of having all scientific research freely available by 2020, as progress towards open access hits a “plateau” because of deeper problems in how research is assessed.

Accreditor's backing of the Purdue-Kaplan deal paves the way for a new, unusual public university, while giving a boost to other for-profit conversions, partnerships and acquisitions.

Study finds instructors are much more likely to respond to comments from white male students than from others.

An email asking staff at the University of York to check whether foreign visitors to their department have visas has raised concerns about the increasingly strict approach to immigration rules in UK higher education institutions.