Universities around the world looking closely at employment rights and research engagement of doctoral candidates

Romania’s top universities have called for the country’s research minister to be dismissed after the government removed overseas members and evaluators from national research councils.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the charity created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to give away their billions, is about to cut loose with an undisclosed amount of cash to get millions more students into college.

Support for vocational education is crossing the partisan divide, with growing calls for a policy focus on apprenticeships and education programs that don't feature the four-year degree.

In his final engagement before resigning as finance minister last year, Emmanuel Macron, now the president of France, visited one of the country’s most prestigious higher education institutions.

Amid pressures to increase revenues and international enrollments, some universities move to establish high schools for international students on their campuses.

The average first-time, full-time tuition discount rate edged even closer to 50 percent in 2016-17 as net tuition revenue and enrollment struggled.

Supporters say it would be a way to invest in public education and have tax-exempt higher education institutions work to counteract growing inequality, but opponents of legislation to tax some private university endowments claim it is unconstitutional and would harm Massachusetts' image as a bastion of higher education.

When Theresa May confirmed last week that the Conservative pledge to cut net migration to the “tens of thousands” would feature in the party’s election manifesto, she claimed that Brexit would help her to achieve the aim.

The campus of Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs is up for sale, but the 50-year-old professional school of ministry isn't going away.