Academic journals may be able to help tackle science’s reproducibility crisis by issuing guidelines on the use of statistics in papers submitted for publication, researchers say.

A row has broken out in the Netherlands over a contract between one of the country’s top business schools and Royal Dutch Shell that appears to give the oil company influence over curricula and admissions.

The closure-threatened Central European University has announced that it will continue to enrol students in Budapest for the next academic year ...

Academics at the University of Oxford are attempting to abolish a rule that forces them to retire at the age of 67 amid growing unrest over what they have called “unfair” and “unlawful” age discrimination.

Large numbers of young people from poorer backgrounds in England are being deterred from applying to university because of fear of incurring student loan debts, a major study has revealed.

Amid growing concern about fraud in research and the challenges of reproducing the results of scientific trials, these questions were hotly debated at the World Conference on Research Integrity

University of Glasgow research indicates students can improve communication and thinking ability by playing computer games

Two-thirds of Irish academics believe Brexit will have a negative impact on higher education in their nation, rising to 96 per cent in Northern Ireland, according to a survey by the Royal Irish Academy.

One in four of UK universities face serious financial problems within five years because of an expected decline in domestic and international student numbers, a vice-chancellor has predicted.

The ongoing diplomatic crisis in Qatar will cause “irreparable reputational damage” to the Gulf as a location for university branch campuses, according to an expert on the region.