A drive has been launched to make the UK the world’s first country where all scientists are professionally recognised, to help benchmark standards in academia.

Brown University is dropping application fees for low-income students following a student campaign run by student leaders from elite universities.

Is an eight-to-one student-faculty ratio one to be cherished or seen as a luxury few colleges can afford? Debate at Whitman illustrates the tensions.

A growing body of research shows that full-time college students are more likely to graduate, yet experts caution against policies that neglect part-time students.

Portland Community College’s open educational resources (OER) movement has paid off for students. Literally.

Uncertainty over President Trump's travel ban has Canada's largest school system taking drastic measures

Looming budget cuts threaten to “change the ecology” of US universities, with the study of humanities most likely to suffer, one of the world’s leading literary critics has warned.

Tsinghua University recently announced that starting from this year its students will not get certificates after graduation unless they know how to swim.

State lawmakers acted illegally in making it a crime for medical marijuana users to possess their drugs on college and university campuses...

Asking an invigilator to prowl the university exam hall has long been a simple and effective way to stop students from cheating.