University rankings must take fuller account of institutions’ engagement with communities, industry and public policy, sector leaders have urged.

Education Department’s inspector general labels Western Governors as a correspondence-course provider, seeks reimbursement of $713 million in aid and may broadly threaten competency-based education.

For many students, alcohol is unofficially part of the college experience.

California's community college system wants to boost the number of low-income students taking advantage of the state's free tuition option.

Even as GAO and others say department needs to do more to monitor institutions for financial risks, department doesn't plan changes.

Taiwan hopes that attracting students from further afield, particularly mainland China, will help to address its higher education crisis.

A Stanford University professor has been named the winner of a new $4 million (£3 million) education prize in recognition of her research on the malleability of intelligence.

Purdue University says the U.S. Department of Education has signed off on the college's plan to buy Kaplan University, a for-profit, online school. ...

Chinese scholars may have more difficulty coming to the University of California, San Diego, after the university invited the Tibetan religious leader to deliver a commencement speech.

New Zealand and Canada have been singled out as the countries that best prepare students for the future, in a major study that assesses the “effectiveness” of education systems.