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Jeopardising local universities with rhetoric about rip-off degrees is the last thing the UK needs. A new funding settlement is vital, says Martin Jones 

The fact that most graduates credit their professional success to their degrees is a neat counter to the government’s rip-off rhetoric, says Vivienne Stern

Ombudsman says British government did not do enough to protect Matthew Hedges during his detention in the United Arab Emirates

Those who took only pass/fail assignments in first year went on to achieve similar marks as their peers but levels of anxiety remained the same

September will see thousands of thesis defenders invited to swear oath to scientific ethics and integrity, but many remain sceptical of ritual’s value

Freedom of Information request reveals that UK university leavers earning below the annual repayment threshold handed over £102.5 million last year

Once it becomes common knowledge that a UK master’s degree is worthless, the sector will be in trouble, says an anonymous academic

Greening of health research depends on goodwill and unfunded, uncoordinated efforts of individual researchers, according to study commissioned by Wellcome Trust

Former Mermaids trustee and trans activist Jacob Breslow says his gender studies colleagues should be ‘left to continue their vital teaching and research in peace’

‘Not in a million years’ will English fee cap be raised during cost-of-living crisis, says minister, despite universities’ warnings on falling funding

Ex-ministers back thinktank’s call for revised science spending targets, reduced bureaucracy, and DSIT oversight of universities

Deputies of Bulgaria’s Iliana Ivanova likely to have outsized influence on Horizon Europe and its successor, according to a national official unhappy that the planning process belongs to Brussels