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.

Two vastly different disciplines consider whether there are too many journal articles these days, and whether graduate student publishing is part of the problem. Some see that analysis as shortsighted.

Duke’s president decided to take down Robert E. Lee statue after less than two months on the job.

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”.

Cambridge University Press has reversed a decision to censor hundreds of articles at the request of the Chinese government after a backlash from academics and activists.

New paper illustrates the brutal and sexist comments faced by women in economics, and likely other fields as well.

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

University touts new deal to train for IT outsourcing firm’s U.S. hiring push, but faculty balk at lack of control over curriculum.

Malala Yousafzai says she is "so excited" after being accepted to study at the world famous University of Oxford.

Ambition defines the University of South Florida, where enrollment has surged so fast that the number of professors has not kept pace.