Northwestern’s journalism school drops its accreditor, shortly after Berkeley did the same, echoing broader questions about the value of the process and whether it impedes innovation.

The value of donations pledged to UK universities has increased by 23 per cent in the space of a year, exceeding £1 billion for the first time, according to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Europe.

A bipartisan bill to fund the government through the end of September protects higher-education programs that are under threat from the 2018 White House budget proposal

In 2009, the first photos started to trickle out of a Toyota Prius outfitted with a bizarre-looking metal contraption on the roof cruising the highways around Silicon Valley.

China is to launch an online version of its national encyclopaedia next year, to compete with Wikipedia.

Accreditor’s new rules are forcing a professor who has taught philosophy for 50 years to stop doing so, because her Ph.D. is in English. Many object.

US congressional leaders have announced a 6 per cent budget increase for the National Institutes of Health, just weeks after Donald Trump proposed for its funding allocation to decline by 18 per cent.

First Amendment watchdogs say a Republican bill that would require University of Wisconsin System officials to punish students and employees who interrupt speeches could help address what they see as growing hostility to opposing ideas among some on college campuses.

The majority of low-income students in the US who are qualified to attend selective universities go to open-access colleges instead, according to a report that shows that most elite institutions could increase enrolment of poor students without significantly hurting their academic standards, graduation rates or budgets.

The U.S. presidential election last year left its mark on college freshmen, who are more politically polarized than they’ve been in at least half a century ...