In April, the World Bank released the latest results of the Global Findex database, the most comprehensive resource to understand how adults use financial services to save, borrow and protect themselves against economic shocks.

Some of Europe’s biggest research universities have warned that the current commercial academic publishing system may not be able to deliver fully open-access research, and that institutions themselves may have to set up rival platforms instead.

Desktop dating is so 2008...

Papua New Guinea will ban Facebook for a month while it identifies fake profiles and considers the website's effect on the country.

As an avocado-loving, debt-ridden, fully paid-up member of the millennial generation, it probably won't come as a surprise that I care about issues such as climate change, social justice and Trump in the White House.

And scholarship offers are also a sure thing, this high school says, at "top 100" colleges.

An Australian university is to extend its Swedish-inspired “block teaching” model after it was credited with boosting student achievement.

Representing economic research to the public is a difficult exercise; results can be subtle and come with a lot of qualifications.

Conversations about school security have resurfaced following the recent Santa Fe, Texas, school shooting that killed 10 and injured 10 more.

Inmates are being offered classes in cultural topics to aid their reintegration into society and reduce the level of reoffending, as Zhang Yan reports with Zhang Yi in Tianjin.