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.

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.