Hall, born in California and based at Stanford University, and Massachusetts-born Woodford, a professor at Columbia University, will share the SEK 12 million (£910,000) prize for the Sveriges Riksbank ...

The cases were due to come before the High Court last week but O’Callaghan offered to make a final decision on their appeals. Solicitors for the three students confirmed to The Irish Times that they ...

De Montfort University has become the latest institution to plan to hire a portion of its staff through a subsidiary firm. Writing to staff, Katie Normington, vice-chancellor at the Leicester-based ...

The mooted merger of three Perth universities would cost A$522 million (£275 million) while returning between A$2.8 billion and A$8.1 billion in benefits, according to the 219-page final report from a ...

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According to the US-based QAHE, its honorary doctorate would be jointly awarded by itself and its partner, the American ...

How can we design teaching that better supports international students to succeed within higher education? Here are teaching tips to boost classroom practice for the inclusion and benefit of all stude ...

Two US professors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for demonstrating how interventions by central banks can help avert recessions. Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford earned the Nobel ...

The US’ main basic research funder – the National Science Foundation (NSF) – has issued a 10-page memo, signalling a shift away from its traditional role in giving grants to individual researchers, ...

Doctoral students are being “neglected” in university efforts to address sexual harassment, a report has warned, arguing that student and staff training can form part of an “effective” approach to ...

The head of Western Australia’s biggest university has vowed to “vigorously oppose” the state government’s plan to merge ...

Michael Scott, an authority on Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama and current senior fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, has written or edited more than 50 books as an academic, but hopes Shakespeare, ...