How Lawrence University, without a mega-endowment, is raising money to join a small group of institutions.

Female chemistry PhD students are 50 per cent more likely to gain a permanent job in academia if their supervisor is a woman, a new study indicates.

Backers say Westlake University, in Hangzhou, will use its autonomy to challenge leading Western science and technology institutions.

Champlain College Online, a leader in career-focused adult higher education, today announced that it will reduce its online undergraduate tuition by 50 percent to $318 per credit, effective Fall 2018.

Many people can likely remember how expensive text books are in college, but Virginia Tech is trying to solve that.

Academics have predicted a crackdown on Confucius Institutes across the West, as the UK becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the role and influence of the Chinese government-funded centres.

Nursing colleges add curricula to deal with a growing public health problem.

Students at many Texas colleges struggle to find enough food to eat — and struggle academically as a result

European universities and research organisations could save hundreds of millions of euros a year by switching to an open access publishing system, a new analysis of subscription deals with publishers has concluded.

A new online platform dubbed the “legal Sci-Hub” is set for major expansion, promising to offer academics “one-click access” to millions of journal articles and research papers.