An Asian university’s decision to hand control of curriculum design to major employers has sparked debate about how higher education institutions can ensure that their students graduate with the skills needed by industry.

New findings tweak "traditional" label for presidents, asking whether U.S. public colleges and universities these days are being led by more nonacademics than we think.

There are only a handful of astronauts, but every year thousands of high school and college students get to visit space vicariously, by launching their own satellites.

Some of Europe’s biggest research universities have warned that the current commercial academic publishing system may not be able to deliver fully open-access research, and that institutions themselves may have to set up rival platforms instead.

And scholarship offers are also a sure thing, this high school says, at "top 100" colleges.

An Australian university is to extend its Swedish-inspired “block teaching” model after it was credited with boosting student achievement.

Representing economic research to the public is a difficult exercise; results can be subtle and come with a lot of qualifications.

Conversations about school security have resurfaced following the recent Santa Fe, Texas, school shooting that killed 10 and injured 10 more.

Inmates are being offered classes in cultural topics to aid their reintegration into society and reduce the level of reoffending, as Zhang Yan reports with Zhang Yi in Tianjin.

Britain’s ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge have access to a staggering pool of wealth totalling almost £21bn, analysis by the Guardian has revealed.