Students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore defied efforts by state legislators to stop them showing a pornographic film, claiming that the intrusion represented an attack on academic freedom....
IndiaForeign institutions might get inForeign universities may be allowed to set up shop in India if proposals made by a committee considering curriculum reform are heeded. The committee, led by Yash...
Tanya Ovenden-Hope welcomes the Leitch report's model for higher education provision in further education colleges
Peer review is no more or less subjective than metrics in measuring research quality. We abandon it at our peril, says Claire Donovan
The AHRC is so aligned with the government agenda of impact and knowledge transfer that it betrays its very raison d'etre, Peter Barry argues
Barack Obama's stratospheric rise from political obscurity to the White House is well documented, but now his influence might go beyond earthly boundaries. John Holdren, the US president's chief...
Research councils assert 'right' to see evidence of what is produced with their cash. Zoë Corbyn writes
Vice-chancellors and other senior managers from at least eight universities have chosen to forgo their annual pay rises.
Accusations that universities have been complicit in the exploitation of the student visa system by bogus applicants have been rejected by a leading vice-chancellor.Last week, police arrested 12 men...
British Academy must change age profile or lose public money, philosopher argues. John Gill writes
Agricultural research in the UK could face a serious skills shortage at a time when the world is struggling to ensure that it can feed the human population.The warning comes from the Royal Society,...
The spectre of strike action over pay has been raised by the University and College Union.On 8 April, Sally Hunt, secretary general of the UCU, wrote to all university heads after the first meeting...
Well-written academic papers are far more likely to pass editorial scrutiny. Matthew Reisz reports
The deciding vote - Do outsiders have too much say in university governance?