UK universities’ growing willingness to make unconditional offers to students is leading schools to increasingly over-predict the grades that their pupils are likely to achieve, an academic leader has warned.

Scholars and political leaders describe increasing concerns about Chinese government influence over teaching and research in the U.S. and Australia.

Taiwan's top court has ordered a man to pay his mother almost $1m (£710,000) for raising him and funding his dentistry training.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in welcomed Kim Jong Un's apparent willingness to enter into dialogue and called for swift measures to help North Korea participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday in Seoul.

As Puerto Rico seeks to repair its decimated electricity system, experts are proposing ways the island can rebuild using better, stronger and cleaner technology that would cut costs, boost resilience and reduce reliance on oil to generate power.

The University of New Haven is the first college in the country to implement interactive software that instantly matches students looking for job openings with the employers looking to fill them

Despite unknowns, colleges and universities are looking at investment and spending strategies to dodge a new tax on net investment earnings.

Female academics are much more likely to feel obliged to award authorship credit to other researchers even if they did not make a significant contribution to the paper, a new study reveals.

South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-registered ship that allegedly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in violation of United Nations sanctions.

Earlier this month, Facebook announced it would be using facial recognition to let users know every time a photo of them had been uploaded to the site.