Russia has its first win of the Olympics.

The “massification” of higher education hasn’t decreased the importance of family background, analysis finds.

Ohio's public colleges are working with each other, career centers and businesses to prepare students for manufacturing jobs.

Even as heat records are shattered on a monthly basis and the world’s glaciers and ice sheets melt, climate change remains a divisive issue in many parts of the world.

Recent high school graduate Terell Lewis is looking forward to attending Forest Trail Sports University in the fall, but the startup school has drawn a mixed reaction from parents and experts.

Donald Trump has built a political brand on his willingness to say just about anything that comes to mind at a given moment -- relying, he says, on his "gut."

An Emirates plane has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport and caught fire.

A Virginia school board may temporarily block a transgender student who was born a girl from using the boys' bathroom while a legal fight over transgender rights proceeds on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday.

The co-founder of sub-Saharan Africa’s “first online-only university” has described how she has had to “change mindsets” about Uganda’s higher education system.

After an alleged harasser holds on to a powerful academic position, professors try to limit his influence, in part by excluding his work from their syllabi. Is that the right strategy?