'Tesla’ initiative will combine anti-plagiarism software with facial, voice and keystroke identification technology

The New College of the Humanities is launching its first postgraduate degree this September at the same time as cutting its undergraduate fees from £18,000 to £12,000.

China’s premier has called for universities in his country to avoid duplicating research being carried in parallel at other institutions.

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

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

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.

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.

Hao Da Xue – literally “good university” in Chinese – is no ordinary online education provider.

English graduates face higher debts than their counterparts in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the rest of the UK, according to a Sutton Trust report.

Barack Obama’s $100 million (£68.6 million) in grants to help make community college free sends a “key economic message” to young Americans that they will need some form of tertiary education to secure jobs