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Right-wing intellectuals who fetishise ‘facts’ frustrate rather than further intellectual debate, says Ryan Coogan

Top US universities with low numbers of ethnic minority students are most likely to use questionable practices that overplay diversity, study claims

The University of South Florida president talks about how her enterprising Ohio upbringing bred confidence and why college sports matter

Long-term benefits of research success – and of building industry relations – may be less direct but far more valuable than royalty payments, summit hears

After a year of heavy criticism threatened to see the landmark study written off for good, it has received support from an unlikely quarter

Many counsellors opting to work overseas or move into private practice

Completion rates improve as number of women in a programme increases, US study finds

Ellie Bothwell analyses how religious institutions shape up compared with secular institutions and how they are adapting to modern mores

Training staff and students in ‘mental health first aid’ can help ameliorate the growing crisis, say Clemente Diaz and Douglas Medina

National Science Foundation demands that universities report findings of sexual harassment involving anyone working on the projects it has financed

Students spending far less time working for their degrees in US states that have legalised medicinal cannabis, US research finds

Efforts to prevent sexual harassment at universities advanced with new policies from top US provider of science funding and world’s biggest general science society