Modern institutions of higher education are finding it increasingly difficult to accomplish their primary mission.

Study challenges the idea that it is primarily parenthood that hinders women’s careers – but in Germany, the picture is very different

Chinese universities record strong performance in graduate employment, with 34 universities entering the world's top 500 universities for graduate employability, a latest ranking showed.

Two academic journals accepted, and then refused, a research paper on differences in intelligence between the sexes.

Since 2011, dozens of institutions have sworn not to undertake military-related research, but the country is now calling on academics to strengthen its defences

An accreditor places each college of the for-profit Center for Excellence in Higher Education on probation, finding misrepresentations to students and -- at one campus -- discriminatory attitudes toward students.

The University of California Santa Cruz announced a $1.5 million privately-funded endowment for a new chair position created to bolster “diversity in astronomy," with another $500,000 contributed to the program by the university.

A new documentary film taking aim at for-profit publishers is about to be screened at universities around the world, but will it further the goals of the open-access movement?

Silicon Valley’s housing crunch is expanding.

Students claim that ‘asking questions is not appreciated by most local teachers’