By David Matthews. Fears that the changes could favour applicants from wealthy backgrounds who can afford to be coached. More...

By David Matthews. White students are over-represented compared with young UK population, but there is huge variation for other groups. More...

By David Matthews. Oxford college says it has received an ‘overwhelming message’ in favour of keeping the statue standing. More...

By David Matthews. The mass rejection of research papers by selective journals in a bid to achieve a high impact factor is an enormous waste of academics’ time, advocates of open access publishing have argued. More...

By David Matthews. Comments by Sir Keith Burnett follows criticisms from business minister than some universities held a 'snobbish' attitude to the courses. More...

By David Matthews. Scientists are being offered a $1,000 (£705) prize if they pre-register their plans for experiments in a bid to make research results more reproducible. More...

By David Matthews. University and college teachers are more likely to be gay than people working in most other types of job, researchers have suggested. More...

By David Matthews. A paper argues that China’s one-child policy helped women to break into higher education. With the demise of the policy, could female progress go into reverse. More...

By David Matthews. Nutrition research risks turning into a branch of marketing for food and drink companies, a leading critic of corporate sponsored science has warned. More...

By David Matthews. This graph shows an explosion in the number of so-called predatory publishers and journals in the past five years. More...