Universities are failing to make best use of Twitter and may promote “inaccurate” depictions of themselves via the social network, a major study says.

College Republicans plant 2,997 flags on campus. Many are removed and trashed.

It will be “impossible” for Russia’s universities to become internationally competitive as long as academic science and medical research take place outside universities in specialised academies.

Student loan debt is out of control, but really it is the parents we should be most worried about.

Debate grows about athletes who kneel during national anthem.

A committee of the Louisiana Board of Regents has placed four schools on “fiscal watch” based on low scores on a 0-to-5 scale for fiscal health, Gannett Louisiana reports.

Flier campaign at Michigan State targets a Hispanic professor who advises Donald Trump.

A behavioural economics journal is trialling a novel and controversial way of making sure peer reviewers submit their reviews on time – releasing a ranking of how quickly they respond.

New book examines how technology is changing education -- and whether that change is for the better.

Graduates from Russell Group universities earn almost £7,000 a year more on average than UK graduates in general at the age of 40, according to a major study on the lifetime earnings of university leavers.