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New English journals are ¡®springing up like mushrooms¡¯ so research can be read internationally, says report

Life sciences journal spends just over ?3,000 per article, and has challenged high-profile rivals to release details of their costs

Walking supervision sessions around Birmingham and pub-based academic chats have won praise from PhD candidates

Jeremy Berg warns scientists are straying into policy commentator roles

Supervisors explain how to help students keep their research on track

Departments urged to consider their team's skills mix rather than just individual qualities

Knowledge exchange income is up to ?4.2 billion, while university spin-offs and start-ups also posted strong growth

Two months on from the referendum, Tom Cameron is still reeling from the UK's Brexit vote 

International group plans new institution run by staff and students

New visa rules have failed to halt a decline in foreign graduates applying for work in Sweden after graduation

Study identifies institutions that have an opportunity to become globally renowned within the next decade

Some see changes as making it more attractive to hire younger researchers ¨C but there could be new opportunities to game the system

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world's media

Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers

Government plans rise in research spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP, far above UK

LinkedIn co-founder, a Nobel laureate and more than 10 university presidents among high-profile speakers at Times Higher Education¡¯s flagship event 

China dominates the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars list

European researchers call for a ¡®radical reorganisation¡¯ to help undergraduates and PhD students access grants

A new book by Bruno Lemaitre considers whether science is suffering from being led by the self-obsessed

The discipline has promised big advances in many areas, but is it failing to live up to the hype? Three neuroscientists consider the state of their field

Study finds evidence supporting fears over a pre-REF ¡¯transfer market¡¯ for star academics

Benefits of proposals for reducing the tax costs of sharing university equipment outweighed by legal and financial hurdles, according to N8 research group

Concerns that Lord Stern¡¯s proposals for REF 2020 will adversely affect ECRs are misplaced, argues Dame Athene Donald

New report indicates that more doesn¡¯t always mean more equal

Chair of independent review of research excellence framework also hopes to tackle 'game-playing'

Investing more in research ¡®must be central to our nation¡¯s strategy¡¯, writes Lord Stern on the day his review of the REF is published

Lord Stern's review of the research excellence framework was published today. This is how UK higher education is responding...

New concordat should help researchers ¡®deliver significant benefits for society¡¯

Landmark review of the research excellence framework also recommends that university where research is done should be able to reap rewards

The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society

The grouping of subjects such as neuroscience and psychiatry with cheaper disciplines will lead to what critics say is a failure to fairly fund mental health research

Six months after the PhD student¡¯s murder in Egypt, John Elmes looks at the case and talks to those who were close to the promising young scholar

Do universities need to rethink what they do and how they do it now that artificial intelligence is beginning to take over graduate-level roles?

Idea is mooted at EuroScience Open Forum but event is also warned that privileging researchers could be seen as ¡®elitist¡¯

Researchers have used an art competition to model what happens during peer review, and their work raises further questions over its effectiveness

Presidents' associations issue statement in wake of Brexit vote

Debate about research on animals fails to tackle all the issues, says Gail Davies

Academics explore how the seemingly sedate game of housey-housey has attracted many different kinds of government intervention

Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago

Social science scholars are attempting to produce ¡®impossible results¡¯ due to demands from journal editors, finds study

Recent attempts to get round US gun lobby¡¯s blocking of federal funds for gun violence research could be making an impact. Jon Marcus reports

Liverpool¡¯s Michael Dougan on ¡®poisonous¡¯ anti-expert rhetoric and the UK¡¯s EEA deal chances

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world¡¯s media

Many more of the general public should help to plot the course of research, argue Christiaan De Beukelaer and Jan Baetens

The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Office has also released data showing experiments on animals across the country have broadly flatlined since 2013

Unlike the rest of the EU budget, research funding disproportionately flows to rich members. But there are pressures for this to change

Lord Stern's warning adds to concerns about a brain drain from British universities in the wake of the referendum result

Some believe the momentous referendum result may harm the UK¡¯s ability to compete for the world¡¯s best PhD students

Shift may be evidence that researchers feel they are increasingly judged on citations and journal impact factors

Concerns raised over splitting research and universities, while Theresa May¡¯s focus on ¡®industrial strategy¡¯ prompts questions

Thinktank advises universities to take advantage of UK¡¯s ¡®instability¡¯ after EU referendum

Research league calls for funding decision makers to see UK partners as desirable

We talk with the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Award winner about impactful research, encouraging young women into science and how engineering is not just about an oily rag and a spanner

Randy Malamud examines the fascination in a fringe academic topic

Campus collections have found new audiences and roles, but they still face significant questions, says Nicholas Thomas

For those aspiring to an academic career, a PhD is the entry ticket to a world where reputation is all, says Robert MacIntosh. Here are his 10 top tips for early career researchers

Times Higher Education¡¯s debut event on universities¡¯ innovation and impact will be held in partnership with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Minister invites researchers to send ¡®concrete¡¯ examples that UK academics are being stopped from bidding for EU grants 

Government and universities must find ways to remove obstacles to cross-cutting research, says report

Iranian-Canadian Homa Hoodfar, who has conducted research on Islamic family law and Muslim dress codes, was imprisoned last month