An anthropologist who had the unenviable task of sitting through academics’ meetings and reading their email chains to find out why they fail to change their teaching styles has come to a surprising conclusion: lecturers are simply too afraid of looking stupid in front of their students to try something new.

Academics faced with a pile of exam scripts to mark often feel like they have been at it for 10 hours straight and, for some, this may be depressingly close to reality.

East Central University, facing complaint, agrees to remove religious symbols from chapel. But after criticism, institution halts the removal.

Patrick Madden has taught and conducted research in computer science for nearly 20 years at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

DeVos "presses pause" on for-profit college regulation

Thousands of people across the country have set their own lives and careers aside to care for loved ones who have suffered injuries in America's long decades of war.

The high salaries paid to the UK's vice-chancellors have been attacked by Jo Johnson, the country's universities minister, who said that Russell Group institutions have a particular case to answer.

Professors and others with science backgrounds are running for Congress, trying to reverse Trump and Republican leaders’ policies.

Survey of undergraduates finds that nearly half have paid bribes and almost all admitted to cheating on exams.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has asked the California community college system to “take whatever steps are necessary” to establish a new, online-only community college.