In 2005, following a season of poor academic performance from his players, Syracuse University’s head basketball coach, Jim Boeheim, hired a new director of basketball operations and gave him an imperative: “fix” the academic problems of his athletes.

Ohio's 14 public universities owe $6.5 billion for debt mostly created by what some education experts have called unnecessary campus building booms.

Scientists have long sought to create a perennial rice that would avoid the damage to the land caused by the necessity of planting annually.

Gov. Jerry Brown has made a habit of criticizing California's public colleges and universities for what he sees as a failure to adapt to the 21st century. Now he is putting the state's money where his mouth is.

The news that a Chinese maths textbook will be introduced into Britain this summer has again caught the eyes of people in the education field ...

Two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian have been charged with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products

The proportion of students scoring top degrees at the University of Cambridge has increased significantly since 1960, according to a new analysis

Smartphones and mobile devices have given each of us a 'second brain,' allowing us to navigate new cities without getting lost and speak fluently in different languages.

When it came to the environment in China, it was hazy through much of the weekend -- literally and figuratively.

Islamic State militants have destroyed ruins at the ancient city of Hatra, Iraqi officials say.