Scientists, journal editors, and funders of research are talking about a once-heretical idea: preprint publishing for biologists.

The current peer-review system is limited to asking two people for their opinions - this is not enough.

Students need to be given real and significant things from the world to think with and about if teachers want to influence how they do that thinking.

There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many.

Across time, public understanding about how science works is affected by journalism. A journalist, with very little extra effort, can increase the accuracy of public understanding and minimize public vulnerability to distortions of science.

Social scientists investigate when and why liberals and conservatives mistrust science. The apparent split may be more about cultural and personal beliefs than feelings about science itself.

Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.

Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

Huge disparities in parts of the developing world offer important clues about how American men and women perceive the world in higher education today.

An MP’s dismissive tweet that scientists have ‘no experience of the real world’ highlights a chasm in mutual understanding.

Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation.