Academics should encourage their students to read tabloid newspapers and teach them that they are part of a “specific social milieu” of highly educated people

When Ruth Simmons became president of Brown University in 2001, one of her first initiatives was to tackle the institution’s slave history, which she said had “simply been erased”.

A plan by India to create 20 domestic “institutions of eminence”, with potentially significant implications for the country's place in global higher education, has been hailed as a more sustainable development model than shelved plans to invite in foreign universities.

The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba under President Barack Obama has led many universities in both countries to seek new academic partnerships, and this has continued despite the more hostile climate created by the Trump administration.

Researchers have launched an ambitious new metric to rate the reproducibility of a scientific paper ...

An academic is boycotting peer review for a scholarly journal after it turned down a manuscript that had previously been published on the website of an education centre.

Blockchain is the technology that some think will shake up banking, currency and the very nature of commercial contracts.

A new metric measuring how often a scientist cites their own work, sometimes a means of boosting their academic standing, has been proposed by a group of researchers.

The president of New York University has played down suggestions that the election of Donald Trump as US president will trigger a downturn in international student recruitment.

Jo Johnson will step up his calls for “restraint” in vice-chancellors’ pay by setting out instructions for England’s Office for Students to “use its powers” on the issue, including the potential use of fines.