Nature journal ‘playing with fire’ over fee for fast-track review
150 editors at Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports to resign if the option to jump the publication queue becomes permanent

150 editors at Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports to resign if the option to jump the publication queue becomes permanent

University of Sheffield project to leave 4,000 coasters in bars to gather data on public attitudes to politics and democracy

Extravagant claims for the right of scholars to say almost anything endanger support for the principle, says Martyn Hammersley


Managers remain in thrall to bad ideas about how to run companies, learns Helga Drummond

A lupine alliance may have helped Homo sapiens to beat the competition, says Simon Underdown

UCU claims two members may have been targeted for ‘role in union’

But Queen’s University Belfast says issue is not related to academic freedom and organisers failed to complete necessary risk assessment

Former vice-president promises to focus on tackling cost of living crisis

Peer review is a sacred cow that is ready to be slain, a former editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal has said

By Kaitlin Mulhere, for Inside Higher Ed

Survey assesses the voting intentions of 13,000 students

The Scottish National Party has pledged to support Labour’s proposed reduction of tuition fees in England to £6,000.

The president of Imperial College London has spoken directly about the suicide of Stefan Grimm for the first time in public.

Plans by King’s to demolish historic buildings in a multimillion pound redevelopment of its Strand campus have been criticised by a conservation group