Ireland has announced a new plan to combat gender inequality in higher education by creating women-only professor positions across its universities and technology institutes.

Spending his days designing high-end residences for South Africa's ultra rich, architect Tshepo Mokholo was miserable.

"We're not talking about donating a building, we're talking about fraud," said Andrew Lelling, the US Attorney for Massachusetts, as he announced indictments in a massive scheme alleging that celebrities and other wealthy individuals used cheating, bribes, and lies to get their kids into elite colleges.

A New York teacher singled out African-American students and cast them as slaves in a mock "auction" as part of a social studies lesson in March.

Parents in China are willing to spend $100,000 on their children's higher education abroad, according to The Value of Education: Higher and Higher report by HSBC.

A university in South China's Guangzhou city recently decided to remove its mixed-gender dorm arrangement, but not all students have welcomed the move.

A symposium on translating and publishing children’s literature abroad was held at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF)

A freshman was so excited to be admitted to a university this year that he rode a bike more than 4,300 kilometers across the country to his university in 22 days.

All the dormitories have installed facial recognition system in Beijing Normal University

Students sit in the forest-themed canteen of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,