On a bright day in downtown Kabul, Jagtar Singh Laghmani was in his traditional herb shop when a man turned up, drew a knife and told him to convert to Islam or he would cut his throat. Only bystanders and other shopkeepers saved his life.

Finding new ways to teach the digital generation, bringing down the cost of a college education and ensuring that more students graduate are among the biggest challenges facing institutions of higher learning today — and meeting those challenges has never been more crucial than it is now.

Now we know it. Brexit is a fact. It sadly shows what populism can do, not only in the UK.

After a more than a half-century, Grove City College was taken off the top of the American Association of University Professors’ censure list at its 102nd Annual Meeting on Saturday.

Federal panel recommends termination for ACICS, an accreditor of several notorious for-profits, while also tightening the screws on the American Bar Association and other agencies.

Our VERGE Hawaii event in Honolulu this week centered around the island state's goal to be powered fully by renewable energy by 2045.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the credentials of a testing laboratory in Rio de Janeiro for failing to comply with international standards, just over a month before the city hosts the Olympic Games.

The number of European Union students enrolling in UK universities could decline significantly in the wake of Brexit, vice-chancellors fear.

For the first time in more than 20 years, some inmates in West Virginia will soon be able to use money from the federal Pell grant to earn a degree behind bars.

Colleges adopted policies to stop the tenure clock to help professors who are new parents, especially mothers. Study suggests fathers may be the real beneficiaries.