Facial recognition systems are hitting a wall of opposition on US university campuses, with the colleges that have tried the technology backing away and many others vowing not to allow it.

Ring doorbells are providing customer data to companies such as Facebook and Google, an investigation suggests.

With federal Parent PLUS loans now accounting for a quarter of borrowing for undergraduates, new data reinforce concern about parents' ability to repay the loans.

The squeals of elementary students at recess and the occasional hiss of a tractor-trailer’s tires on the main drag serve as the only soundtrack as a quartet of high school students head for some fun away from school.

The National Association of Scholars is facing accusations of harboring a “white supremacy agenda” and of being “dangerous” over the group’s upcoming conference that will explore how a massive amount of scientific findings published in peer-reviewed journals cannot be reproduced.

The University of Missouri is the most recent American university to shutter its Confucius Institute.

Nanotechnology innovator charged over alleged links to Chinese state-run academic talent programme, in expanding federal crackdown

A novel, potentially lethal virus in China. Bush fires in Australia. Political protests in Hong Kong.

The Watkins College of Art will merge with Belmont University later this year, joining a growing list of tiny colleges, particularly in the arts, that struggled to go it alone.

Facebook has launched a new tool that lets people see which apps, businesses and websites are sharing their information with the social network.