The ocean laps against a protective seawall outside the maternity ward at Kiribati's Nawerewere Hospital, marshalling itself for another assault with the next king tide.

As the home of the hub for Hong Kong's internet traffic, Chinese University is regarded by local security experts as one of the prime targets in the city for cyber attacks by foreign agents.

Children in developing countries could educate themselves using computers, the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh has been told.

A winter's thicket of weeds still choked the soil outside Catherine Ferguson Academy late last month when the old school's loudspeaker crackled on.

A campaign to encourage and enable UK students to gain studying or internship experience in China was launched this week by the British Council, with an ambition to see at least 15,000 UK students in China by September 2016.

Facebook's latest and potentially greenest data center went live this week, boasting renewable energy supplies and an impressive energy efficiency rating.

he number of Americans graduating from college has surged in recent years, sending the share with a college degree to a new high, federal data shows.

To hear members of Congress tell it, reauthorizing the Higher Education Act is looming on the near horizon of the legislative agenda -- even though most others here consider it a mirage that’s still years away.

Computers, tablets and smartphones have not yet managed to crowd out pens and pencils, says Faber-Castell, German maker of high-end writing instruments.

The man behind the Rate Your Lecturer website, which encourages British university students to publicly praise or censure their teachers, has defended the project against a glut of criticism from academics.