A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their institution, an online sur...

Europe and US-based Chinese researchers have been flooding back to China in recent years — and having a significant impact in the literature after returning ...

Women are listed as authors of just 30% of academic research from British universities, according to a major new ranking of higher education institutions. Th...

India’s University Grants Commission (UGC) last month (January 11) published a list of more than 38,000 journals that it will use to evaluate researchers’ wo...

Romanian officials are taking a stand against a long-standing oddity in the law that entitles prisoners to 30 days off their jail sentence for every piece of...

Concerned researchers have drafted a letter to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to address what they see as “damaging stereotyp...

According to a new ranking system that was launched in the UK Houses of Parliament on 21st January 2015, only a handful of UK universities are addressing the...

Tutors are often told in sessions to "stick to the syllabus", but is this a hindrance to creativity? Does it limit the ability of kids to think outside the b...

Poet Philip Larkin once said, "A story consists of a beginning, a muddle, and an end.” But what exactly did he mean by this? What is the underlying mechanism...

Do tutors get bored of teaching the same subject? If not, why not? Philosopher Russell Hanson told us the difference between 'seeing' and 'seeing as'. What d...

Allowing kids to delve into the storyworld enables them to think creatively and improve their communication skills. The blog post was published on the educat...