University rankings must take fuller account of institutions’ engagement with communities, industry and public policy, sector leaders have urged.

Scholars and students around the world face a “continuing global crisis of attacks” driven by an “anti-democratic fear of universities” as bastions of free thought, according to an international network that promotes academic freedom.

Italian police have placed seven university lecturers under house arrest as part of a major probe into the alleged rigging of exams.

Many Nobel prizewinners believe that bias against women explains why so few female researchers have won science’s top award....

With all their wealth, prestige and history, America’s top universities still lead a sector struggling to expand success for lower-income and ethnic minority students, or to provide their graduates with career-ready skills.

Elsevier has proposed a shift towards regional models of open access publishing, warning that there is no international consensus over which subscription-free approach works best.

Students who go abroad as part of their degree for a short period of time develop better teamwork skills than those who go overseas for a year, while other areas of development are unaffected by the duration of international study ...

The new vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge has called on the institution to take a “global lead” on research and collaboration, as he acknowledged the “unprecedented complexity” facing the UK’s higher education sector.

BPP University has shut a dentistry course after it failed to meet General Dental Council standards, leaving new students unable to start and existing undergraduates facing an uncertain future.

Leading publishers are stepping up their fight against ResearchGate by ordering the academic social network to take down papers that they say infringe copyright.