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Animated by both left and right, operations’ right to label themselves ‘university’ or ‘college’ amplify a regulatory danger for US higher education

Award forces US university science to face up to treatment of immigrant woman who worked past demotions and threats to help create life-saving vaccine

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin is third woman to win Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences

Sector organisations warn that country risks brain drain if it does not end stagnation in investment

In considering revisions for the 10th anniversary of its respected free-speech ideals, university turns to critics of academia’s public voice

Michael Fung, a former deputy chief executive of Singapore’s SkillsFuture programme, takes his methodology to Mexico and the developing world

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov share science’s top honour for research into tiny particles now used in TVs and medicine

Small private US campus leader leaves wake of graphic allegations and questions of previous institutions keeping quiet

New institutions are required to stem the tide of misinformation sweeping US, says vaccine expert who was goaded by Elon Musk for refusing to debate a Covid conspiracist

Three years after province cut its budget by a third, leaner flagship university sees a moment to leap; students hope they can make it

University of Pennsylvania’s ‘tenacious’ laureates reflect on coping with demotion, dismissal and desk rejection to continue their mRNA research

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman’s research led to jabs that ‘saved millions of lives and prevented disease in many more’, says award panel