A drive has been launched to make the UK the world’s first country where all scientists are professionally recognised, to help benchmark standards in academia.

Brown University is dropping application fees for low-income students following a student campaign run by student leaders from elite universities.

Is an eight-to-one student-faculty ratio one to be cherished or seen as a luxury few colleges can afford? Debate at Whitman illustrates the tensions.

To be clear, I’m not asking "Do we care about climate change?" or "Are we worried about climate change?" or "Would we like to see something done about climate change?"

With the growing demand for local and humanely raised meats, pasture-based farmers have new market opportunities to become viable businesses.

Facebook’s annual developers’ event, held this year in San Jose, is the social network's chance to bring together all of the people that work with the site to create the apps and other features used by the almost two billion people.

A growing body of research shows that full-time college students are more likely to graduate, yet experts caution against policies that neglect part-time students.

Portland Community College’s open educational resources (OER) movement has paid off for students. Literally.

Uncertainty over President Trump's travel ban has Canada's largest school system taking drastic measures

Looming budget cuts threaten to “change the ecology” of US universities, with the study of humanities most likely to suffer, one of the world’s leading literary critics has warned.