As academia’s most exalted qualification, the PhD is still widely regarded as solid proof of elevated intellectual power.

America, built on the dream of upward mobility, has become a country of deepening divide between rich and poor.

White House reportedly considers new restrictions barring Chinese citizens from engaging in sensitive research at U.S. universities. Higher education groups say they want to protect national security interests, but U.S. universities must remain open.

In a bid to gain market share, publishers have slashed the cost of digital textbooks.

More Chinese universities are embracing gaming as they see big job opportunities in the development of the sector, as Shi Futian reports.

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As utilities face increasing pressure to cut back on fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy sources, many are turning to new technologies — including hardware, software and artificial intelligence — that can help them integrate and control distributed clean resources such as rooftop solar and batteries.

Everett Community College has joined dozens of other higher education organizations in supporting a legal challenge of President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program that allows young people who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children to remain in the country.

Less hard-working students who are placed in study groups with more diligent and less “risk-taking” peers get better grades without doing any extra work, according to a study.

Thousands of former Corinthian Colleges students face a potentially pivotal court hearing Monday in a battle to erase millions of dollars in loan debt for their studies at the scandal-scarred, for-profit schools....