Elsevier has restored access to German research institutions that have been cut off from its journals since the new year after negotiations over a new contract broke down.

France’s brain drain of young scientists may be far worse than imagined as Gallic researchers are choosing not to return home after their postdoctoral studies abroad, a study says.

Martin Shkreli, former chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals, delivered a speech about hedge fund management and healthcare at Harvard University on 15 February, despite protests at his appearance.

As Britain haggles with the European Union over the terms of Brexit, European higher education is attempting to alleviate the uncertainty over academic relations with UK universities.

Three-fifths of teenagers have considered studying abroad but the majority have concerns about safety and security, according to research that reveals the attitudes towards international education among school pupils.

Almost half of community college students in the US could drop out because of a lack of finances, according to new research.

Scholars who publish research with hundreds of co-authors should receive no more than one-third of the current credit they get for such papers, according to a proposed formula designed to eradicate “gift authorship”.

Young researchers at Western universities are increasingly writing “safe” and “conservative” papers due to the pressure to get published...

About half of UK universities have lost international student numbers since the Conservatives entered power in 2010, with the losses across those institutions totalling 43,000 students and focused in “middle and lower-ranked universities”.

“Some of our friends couldn’t make it.”