In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...

A new online tool, Cassyni, aims to help academics run and keep track of research seminars worldwide. Its creators say that it will also...

A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...

Higher educational institutions across the UK and Europe have been the target of an increasing number of cyber attacks in recent months....

The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...

However nerve-wracking it may be, most PhD students pass their final viva exam, in which examiners dissect and challenge their work. Once...

Social ties to classmates and how students feel could be more important than innate ability when it comes to enduring early STEM weed-out...

Physics and Astronomy graduate schools are rapidly moving away from the GRE entrance exams amid concerns over their cost, accessibility...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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