Faculty members at California State University were similarly skeptical and warned of "Walmartization" last year as trustees charged each campus $50,000 to help fund CSU Online.

Dr Joanne Benford, an Open University lecturer, is being investigated for suspected plagiarism after allegedly publishing a Dylan Thomas story under her own name.

Ministers are being asked to reconsider plans for older students to fund their own A-level and equivalent courses.

In the days when few colleges even imagined a woman as their leader, there was one corner of academe where women ruled: Roman Catholic colleges.

Due to declining enrollment, Kaplan University said Wednesday it is laying off 200 admissions workers, primarily in its Fort Lauderdale, Plantation and Boca Raton offices.

Dipak Das, the University of Connecticut scientist accused of fabricating 145 instances of research, is fighting his termination.

Faculty members are far less excited by, and more fearful of, the recent growth of online education than are academic technology administrators...

A much-awaited survey on adjunct working conditions, released today, finds what many have long suspected: Adjuncts don’t make much money ...

E-mail messages were flying among leaders of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in the weeks leading up to the ouster of Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the university.

Today, enrollment in online courses is growing at a faster rate than that of overall higher education, and more schools are striving to increase their web-based programs.