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.

Shades of Ross Perot; what is causing that giant sucking sound heard around Albuquerque? Is it jobs heading to Mexico as Perot predicted NAFTA would cause?

The University of Cambridge has launched a new public policy institute to address inequality and social unrest across the world, after receiving a “major gift” from a philanthropist.

Nicole Grobert is German, but she has spent almost all of her career in Britain, developing tiny nanomaterials and figuring out how to use them in everything from artificial bones to super-efficient batteries.