Could King Arthur’s legendary round table provide the secret to university leadership? The head of what will be the UK’s first “greenfield” university in 40 years thinks so.

Academics have expressed concern about plans to expand a programme in the US which sees airline passengers asked to remove books from carry-on luggage.

Elsevier’s successful court battle against sites providing unlawful access to millions of journal articles sends a message that publicly funded research has become a “corporate asset and private property”, according to a scholarly publishing expert.

Researchers have warned of a growing crisis in science in Latin America as new analysis lays bare how low salaries, underfunding and excessive bureaucracy are fuelling a brain drain of scholars.

The high salaries paid to the UK's vice-chancellors have been attacked by Jo Johnson, the country's universities minister, who said that Russell Group institutions have a particular case to answer.

Patrick Madden has taught and conducted research in computer science for nearly 20 years at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

An anthropologist who had the unenviable task of sitting through academics’ meetings and reading their email chains to find out why they fail to change their teaching styles has come to a surprising conclusion: lecturers are simply too afraid of looking stupid in front of their students to try something new.

Academics faced with a pile of exam scripts to mark often feel like they have been at it for 10 hours straight and, for some, this may be depressingly close to reality.

Changes to student loans after 2012, principally the freezing of the repayment threshold, have increased the “burden” of repayments “most for low and middle earners”, according to a new Institute for Fiscal Studies report.

A UK university has told all of its research professors to reapply for their jobs, or face redundancy.