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.

Top academic claims universities have created 'factories' for junk science papers because of misguided funding system

Increased market competition and the growth in participation in higher education has led to “imitation” behaviour and the narrowing of university missions around the world

The University of Cambridge is planning an expansion of postgraduate student numbers as the institution seeks to counter a “continuing deterioration” in financial outlook that it attributes partly to Brexit and higher education policy uncertainty.

One in five private providers of higher education in England plan to apply for degree-awarding powers by the end of the decade, signalling increased competition for established universities.

Chinese scientists can win awards of up to $165,000 (£127,000) from their universities for publishing in leading scientific journals, according to research that exposes the country’s system of “cash for articles”.