Pilot scheme at Lady Margaret Hall will accept 12 students who ‘would not normally apply or succeed in competing through conventional channels’

A school in northern Malaysia has had to shut temporarily to handle what local media have called a case of "mass hysteria".

A lawsuit against the American Studies Association argues its support for the academic boycott of Israel falls outside the scope of its mission.

There is no doubt that China means business in sub-Saharan Africa.

It’s not exactly a secret that professional athletes make a lot of money.

The Department of Education is calling on accreditation agencies to step up their review of colleges and universities, just as lawmakers are calling on the department to strengthen its review of accreditors.

Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright.

Last week, both the Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill to cut the entire $436,000 (£301,000) state appropriation for an office at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that promotes diversity at the state's flagship university.

Wichita Area Technical College has announced a new scholarship program geared toward specific high-wage, high-demand fields ...

Although the term made it into dictionaries only in 2014, crowdfunding is big business. In 2013, more than $5 billion (£3.5 billion) was raised worldwide, with millions of people pitching in to fund everything from video games to drones.