Critics fear focus on research impact in next funding programme could lead to a REF-type exercise

Donald Trump provided relatively few clues to what he might do as president, but he'll probably try to reverse some of President Obama's priorities, rolling back regulations, creating new political opening for for-profit colleges and curtailing collective bargaining rights.

The city needs to align itself with a university partner to attract millennials, who will bring innovation and entrepreneurship.

From rapid genetic analysis to spectrography, high-tech tools are being used to track down and prosecute perpetrators of the illegal wildlife trade.

After Brexit, many are looking for a new place to call home. These regions offer big incentives to get you to relocate.

Universities should make it a priority to equip graduate students with academic writing skills or they run the risk of greater numbers failing to complete master’s courses and PhDs, according to the author of new research.

The organization that oversees the training of young doctors recommended Friday that first-year physicians in hospitals be allowed to work 24-hour shifts — eight hours longer than they are permitted now.

Don't kill the messenger; Twitter channeled plenty of political poison in the 2016 presidential contest, but it also served as an organizing platform and a therapeutic outlet on a global scale.

Many academic leaders fear the president-elect could scare off foreign students, encourage discord on campuses and promote the anti-intellectualism that won him broad support from non-college-educated males.

Nearly a quarter of Americans will live in areas where recreational marijuana use is legal if voters approve initiatives on Tuesday permitting the recreational use of cannabis in California, Massachusetts and three other states.