The head of a for-profit college has criticised “vested interests” and a “reactionary response to challenge” among established universities.

Hundreds of academics have signed a letter hitting out at the treatment of academics in Turkey after a British scholar was deported from the country despite having lived there for 25 years.

The number of first-year overseas students entering English universities fell again this year and visa issuances are down in seven of the UK’s top 10 countries for recruitment, show new figures that raise financial concerns for the sector.

UK university staff have cited the lack of transparency around Chinese transnational education (TNE) legislation as one of the main barriers halting higher education partnerships between the two countries.

A year ago, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, moved to revoke the tenure of and fire a controversial professor for statements he made about a graduate instructor, with her name, on his blog.

Many academics spend their time telling students not to use Wikipedia in their coursework, but one university has taken a different approach.

The first major update in seven years of a database on US grade inflation has found that grades continue to rise and that A is the most common grade earned at all kinds of colleges.

Asia does not suffer from a “brain drain” despite its high number of students attending Western universities, according to the deputy dean of one of the region’s leading business schools.

The Californian institution said it will recruit top-performing graduates from the online university

Number of women in high performance computing and science in general is worryingly low, says scholar who leads group for female academics in her field