Economics is a discipline with a communication problem: its practitioners have struggled to gain traction in debates over the rise of populism globally and, in the UK, were the target of Brexit campaigners who claimed that the people in the country had “had enough of experts”.

The board of trustees at tiny Mount Ida College, which plans to close and sell its Newton campus to UMass, repeatedly boosted the compensation of president Barry Brown and other top executives between 2013 and 2016 while the school's debt load increased, according to public filings.

Few institutions have topped more than 100,000 students online, but Western Governors University and Southern New Hampshire University are on the brink.

Participation in Australian tertiary education is set to plunge, robbing the country of skills to fuel a knowledge economy, researchers have warned.

Rachel Murphy had barely begun the tertiary course that was supposed to kick-start her career when it abruptly ended.

Gender parity in science remains a distant goal, with men set to outnumber women in publishing in many fields until at least the end of the century.

Nearly a quarter of students at the University of Massachusetts say they’ve skipped meals because they can’t afford them.

The UK’s Department for Education has allowed a second for-profit institution to use “university” in its name when it does not have the credentials to secure the title under established processes, giving the green light to the “University Campus of Football Business”.

It's a privileged few who get the chance to study at a top Ivy League university like Yale. Its esteemed alumni include Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Snr (and Jnr), actors Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, and the first female head of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, to name just a handful.

Analysis suggests big differences among disciplines in the volume of scholarship that fails to garner a citation.