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Scandal-driven ousting brings reflection to campus steeped in partisanship and power

Oxbridge and the Ivy League might do well to act more like Starbucks, argues Harvard fellow Aviezer Tucker

National Science Foundation’s new emphasis in postgraduate funding seen as backsliding on diversity

Campus presidents emphasise belief in enrolment growth in survey

Big Ten collaboration, while limited, reflects growing pressure to cut costs

Scientists have expressed dismay that the reported death of a US scientist was apparently part of an elaborate hoax

Absorbing troubled online institution, university pledges $225 million investment

校内面授课程能否继续的不确定性致使学生面临签证难关

Frustrated with their university’s plan for the autumn, which is slated to include full dorms, a group of professors has broken rank and sent an open letter to students

Teaching-focused institutions need to concentrate on the aspects of faculty research that contribute to the student experience, says Neil Clarke

Publisher says investigation under way after academics call for retraction of ‘unscholarly’ paper by influential voice on US welfare reform

Pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests amplify pressure on multibillion-dollar sports programmes over levels of athlete remuneration