Report from Office for Students says ‘unrealistic’ targets on recruitment could expose an institution to ‘significant risk’

Members of the public will be able to run their own experiments, producing data that could be valuable for scholars

Oversupply of young scholars means employers’ productivity demands are much higher than a generation ago, study finds

Leading academics express doubt about UK government’s ability to underwrite large EU funding packages

Montenegro becomes one of the first countries to outlaw not only plagiarism, but also donation of authorship and fabrication of research results

Friendly competition can push us all to do better. But when the competitiveness that fuels excellence and prestige becomes based in the logic of the market, universities lose sight of their true purpose

After the collapse of for-profit colleges, big state universities see need and opportunity

Confidence stalls, however, over depth of faculty commitment to open access

First-of-its-kind study indicates at least one in three research-intensive institutions in North America lean on citation data in decisions on promotion and tenure

Monash Technology Transformation Institute aims to bridge ‘valley of death’ that sees many discoveries fall short of securing commercial-scale investment