It's a privileged few who get the chance to study at a top Ivy League university like Yale. Its esteemed alumni include Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Snr (and Jnr), actors Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, and the first female head of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, to name just a handful.

Analysis suggests big differences among disciplines in the volume of scholarship that fails to garner a citation.

Chinese parents are looking to ramp up extracurricular classes as schools cut back on homework

Twelve member institutions of the University of London, including UCL and King’s College London, are planning to apply for university status in their own right, subject to a bill on the federal institution completing its passage through the UK’s Parliament.

An Obama-era program to give nontraditional providers access to federal financial aid has struggled to get off the ground, and three of eight participants have pulled out.

Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) is among higher education institutions providing free laptop vending machines to give students greater access to technology and more flexibility.

North Korea has recently started to introduce state-of-the-art technology for the training of future schoolteachers in a possible world first.

Students expect wireless internet access everywhere on campus, and colleges and universities pay millions to provide it.

Black students in the US are more likely to graduate if they attend a historically black university rather than a predominantly white institution, according to research.  

New study finds that colleges go where students are likely to be white and wealthy.