Instead of supporting the 54% of staff on insecure contracts, many managers are using the pandemic to sack them.

Universities across Europe are grappling with digital problems, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced campuses to shut down and move research and teaching online. Digital capabilities are not distributed equally across European universities, and deficiencies have delayed implementing systems for online teaching. Bandwidth and student access to computers is also an issue.

The university analysts at QS have published their 2020 rankings by subject.

Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change

Some students do feel political pressure from their professors, but few change their views.

The incident raises important questions about how institutions handle accusations of harassment that occurred at different universities - particularly in the #MeToo era.

Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed.

Academic scientists and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using digital metrics, from bibliometrics to patent counts. These metrics are often framed, by science policy analysts, economists of science as well as funding agencies, as objective and universal proxies for scientific worth, potential, and productivity.

Nearly a third of universities have used non-disclosure contracts for student grievances since 2016.

Academics say case of Dr Asiya Islam, turned down after 10 years in UK, gives the lie to assurances Britain is open to experts.

Elsevier introduced about 40 mirror journals, also known as X-journals, which enable researchers to publish Open Access and as such meet the requirements of Plan S and other funders.

Prosecutors say Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard's chemistry department, lied about contacts with a Chinese state-run initiative that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent.

China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.

Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.

Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.

The climate emergency movement is heading to school. Global higher education networks tying together more than 7000 universities and colleges from across the globe declared a climate emergency and published a three-point plan to confront the escalating environmental crisis.