A professor of economics has turned to crowdfunding to pay his salary because universities “no longer provide the time and freedom they once gave to original thinkers”.

Stripping universities of a marker of elite status hits their reputation and causes them to lose students, but the benefits of conferring it in the first place are negligible, evidence suggests.

Academics should stop using the term “reading list” because it leads to a over-reliance on paper-based books and sidelines online learning materials, a senior university librarian has argued.

Medical research funding bodies are “not doing enough” to reduce wasteful grant spending, according to the co-author of a study investigating the issue.

We are living through an epochal moment in the history of universities.

Elite continental European universities could find it “increasingly difficult to compete” with their US and UK counterparts ...

One of the world’s biggest funders of scientific research is to establish an open access platform that will allow its grant winners to publish their findings...

The expansion and differentiation of global higher education without a well-defined strategy means that the sector faces a “period of anarchy”, a study warns.

Taking careers classes can improve students’ chances of finding graduate employment by 40 per cent, research suggests.

University professors in France are paid far less than their peers in other countries as state bureaucracy prevents top researchers from negotiating higher salaries, new analysis suggests.