All students, regardless of their background or school, learn more from tough teachers, according to a new study by Seth Gershenson, associate professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University.

Senator Lamar Alexander says a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act should pass the education committee in about a month, to give it time to get through Congress this year.

Four-year deal with Wiley hailed as ‘step-change’ moment in switch to open-access publishing

Apple has agreed to settle a long-running class-action case in the US over allegations it deliberately slowed down older iPhones.

A religious freedom group is taking aim at Liberty University.

UCLA has announced a policy development that would completely ban single-use plastics, and replace them with compostables and other alternatives.

Classics faculty at Oxford University have proposed that two ancient epics from its introductory class be dropped in order to “reduce attainment gaps.”

Report into history of eugenics at UCL sets out series of measures to deal with contentious past, but some inquiry members claim it does not go far enough

As Senate debates joining House in condemning Education Department rule on forgiving student loans, key Republicans are on the fence.

Amazon has banned more than one million products which claim to protect against the coronavirus - or even cure it.