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.

A team of scientists say a melting glacier in Canada's Yukon has caused a river to completely change course.

Tsinghua University recently announced that starting from this year its students will not get certificates after graduation unless they know how to swim.

Much has been written about the utility industry’s "death spiral." I’ve got some data points to add to that scenario — and a possible solution.

State lawmakers acted illegally in making it a crime for medical marijuana users to possess their drugs on college and university campuses...

Asking an invigilator to prowl the university exam hall has long been a simple and effective way to stop students from cheating.

Leading history journal apologizes for assigning review of book on inequality and urban education issues to a professor viewed by many as a white supremacist.

Kids aren't the only ones learning in the classroom.

North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol warns the US against taking military action

Female economists write papers that are more readable than those produced by their male counterparts but take significantly longer to get published, a new study has found.