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Crackdown leaves professors needing to pay back almost €250,000 each on average

Matthew Reisz hears the case for in-depth immersive research among marginalised communities

Campaigners fear a huge increase in EU military research spending will lead to development of autonomous weapons

Analysis of academic boycott of Central Powers after WWI prompts warnings over Trump administration plans

Convincing universities to divest from fossil fuels and use only green energy is a better strategy, says Thomas Smith

Investigation discovers that three-quarters of advertised posts are filled by an internal candidate

Funding for organisation expected to be confirmed in federal budget

UK expertise pulls far ahead of Europe in terms of output, but collaboration will be vital if sectors are to remain competitive with US and Asia, experts say

Embracing immersive content would aid public engagement and bring research and teaching closer together, argue Vincent Tong, Sam Smidt and Matilda Katan 

Drug-related crime, rising unemployment and low salaries are all contributing to a postgraduate shortage that indicates an uncertain future for Mexico¡¯s higher education system, finds Rachael Pells

Schemes asking us to transform our workplaces in the name of equality, diversity and inclusivity are failing. It¡¯s time to hold our institutions to account, says Rebecca Harrison

British Council conference to hear of downsides to focus on elite higher education institutions

Indian lecturer joins with British colleagues to promote literature of those formerly called ¡®untouchables¡¯

This should be the new mantra for researchers in a post-Facebook world, argues Andy Turner 

Incorporation of AMR in Global Burden of Disease study could be game changer in securing more government funding

Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why

Speakers at THE summit worry that structural funds have become ¡®part of the problem¡¯ for new member states

While one group of publishers takes academic network to court over copyright, another strikes deal

NAS calls for US lawmakers to bring change also brings warning that crisis talk may ultimately ¡®stifle frontier discoveries¡¯

Politicians¡¯ disparagement of historian¡¯s research signals that alternative interpretations of the city state¡¯s past will not be tolerated, says Linda Lim

Female researchers remain comparatively scarce in publishing, with some fields to remain male-dominated for centuries

From MI5 recruiting, to students spying on each other and intelligence agencies funding research, Matthew Reisz explores the long and often uneasy relationship between espionage and the academy

Ten years into the programme, German universities remain focused on traditional markers of success, say Andreas Knie and Dagmar Simon

Public health academic says studies must speak the same language as their subjects

Analysis from THE¡¯s data team suggests big differences among disciplines in the amount of scholarship that fails to garner a citation 

US universities dominate list of institutions and researchers that are most likely to publish the most cited scholarship for the subject 

Faculties without borders are the key to turning multidisciplinarity into more than a buzzword, says Duncan Ivison

The Cambridge Analytica controversy flags up the ethical perils of research with Big Data ¨C especially when it has commercial potential, says John Holmwood 

Academic gatherings may be fun, but they do little to advance knowledge. To justify the public spending that supports them, such events must do more to provide benefits to those who don¡¯t attend, argues Nicholas Rowe

Stanford's Londa Schiebinger warns that failure to account for differing impact of interventions on men and women is costing lives

But male researchers with small children get a boost, study of academics at Italian university finds

Broad Institute and other US-based research centres lead in cutting-edge genomics topic

Universities will need to think hard about how they will respond to the growing popularity of the qualification, says Elizabeth Miller

A newcomer in the Oxford-Cambridge innovation corridor will reshape our understanding of what higher education is for, says Lynette Ryals

Expansion of US carrier associated with increase in partnerships of more than 30 per cent

The mere mention of fairies in academic circles can bring derision. Yet the field is a rich one that has much to offer open-minded, multidisciplinary scholars, writes Simon Young

If elements of society feel they have no stake in humanities and social science research, their support for it will evaporate, warns Musa al-Gharbi

Analysis of data on current research networks suggests that subjects where expensive kit is shared could be vulnerable

But observers warn that open data initiative is progressing too slowly and researchers lack incentives to join up

Scientists reject the ¡®crisis narrative¡¯ as an inflammatory distraction from bigger issues

Following individuals¡¯ paths in and out of different institutions shows that most students eventually graduate, say Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman

Large worldwide survey suggests scholars in continental Europe more readily provide data alongside results

Professional doctorates offer a more useful, less stressful but no less rigorous alternative to the moribund PhD, says Richard Willis

Psychologist Michal Kosinski¡¯s work shows how digital footprints can predict a person¡¯s sexual orientation, political views and more. Is it a danger or a warning about threats to privacy? John Morgan reports from California

Will the current blockade on Qatar harm its higher education system? Simon Baker investigates whether the need to find common scientific ground among Gulf states could win out

University of Waterloo president says modern universities must combine research and creativity 

US-based ARTiFACTS system is claimed to be first ¡®fully functional¡¯ blockchain-based system for recording research process

Lancaster University's vice-chancellor Mark E. Smith and Nicola Owen argue that a new composite ranking offers a more nuanced view of institutional excellence

Social scientists¡¯ scepticism about research oversight also relates to the curiously bad press it gets in Western literature, writes Katarzyna Kaczmarska 

The reawakening of political activism within academia sparked by the pensions strike will reinvigorate scholarship, says Jana Bacevic

Scholarship scheme set up from funds raised by the campaign aims to promote future generations of women in research

Introducing a ¡®consumer-style ratings system¡¯ for degrees has the potential to cause terrible damage to universities and society in general, argues Cathy Shrank

Female junior academics are also gaining research prestige, says study

Report from African Academy of Sciences also claims that scientific research in continent must better align with sustainable development goals

New schemes will provide grants to master¡¯s and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers

Higher education institutions make a loss when they invest in international partnerships, but the wider community reaps a windfall, says New Zealand report

Mathematicians ¨C and, indeed, other scholars ¨C who cooperate with intelligence agencies face a moral dilemma knowing that their research could well be applied in unethical ways, says Michael Harris

Parochialism makes sense from a career point of view, but is disastrous for public discourse, say Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Mitchell L. Stevens

There are very few outlets for women to work together against unhelpful concepts that hold back female progression in academia, says Elisabeth Julie Vargo

Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers