The world’s first scholarship in antipsychiatry has been recognised by the University of Toronto, and the news has been met with bafflement, interest and strongly worded debate.

Donald Trump has attacked the University of California, Berkeley, on Twitter, suggesting that the institution “does not allow free speech and practises violence on innocent people with a different point of view”.

International students rate themselves as significantly better at completing study tasks and activities than academics judge them to be, according to a study at a US university.

“Urgent” action is required to stop Indian academics fuelling a multimillion-dollar predatory publishing industry, a new study says.

Editors of academic journals should be investigated for “professional negligence” if peer review at their publications takes too long, says a leading critic of the scholarly publishing industry.

Key UK government-commissioned research on higher education is “getting dusty” on departmental shelves rather than being published, a situation that is “worse than an embarrassment”, according to a former ministerial adviser.

Figures on UK private providers have raised renewed questions about the number of students claiming public loans to study sub-degree courses at for-profit colleges, but leaving without qualifications.

The number of European graduate students enrolling at US universities rose by 8 per cent in the year to autumn 2016 ...

University students find it easier to retain information when using books and handwriting notes rather than computers, according to a survey of European and Asian students.

Academics are keen observers of the absurd in their professional lives – or so their many ironic, often gallows-humor social media accounts suggest.