East Asian universities may never catch up with their Western counterparts because of a “toxic academic culture” in the region, according to a brutal assessment by a Hong Kong academic.

Academics in countries adopting a permissive attitude under copyright law to data mining are three times more likely to publish research based on the technique than colleagues in countries with a more restrictive approach.

If any particularly observant readers noticed that my byline disappeared from Times Higher Education around this time a year ago

White supervisors in New Zealand can provide far more effective support for their Maori students by “embracing rather than refusing history’s ghosts”.

Many university researchers have unrealistic expectations of a long-term career in academia and are doing little to explore other job options, a survey has found.

Kansas State University has suspended its marching band director for one game after the band’s members marched in a formation meant to portray the Starship Enterprise battling the mascot of the university’s rival, the University of Kansas Jayhawk.

Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard have topped a new ranking of the most innovative universities.

The government has for the first time publicly named universities that have hosted speakers voicing views that are “contrary to British values” as it introduces a duty on institutions to counter “extremist” speakers on campus.

The decline in Chinese students attending US graduate schools is expected to cause major problems for the country’s postgraduate sector given its huge reliance on this cohort,

The US’ public higher education system has engaged in an “un-excellence initiative” that will lead to a drop in the quality of its universities ...