Anthropologist offers explanation for why faculty members hesitate to adopt innovative teaching methods.

If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college:

Changes to student loans after 2012, principally the freezing of the repayment threshold, have increased the “burden” of repayments “most for low and middle earners”, according to a new Institute for Fiscal Studies report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled its fraud case against ITT Educational Services, but it continues to pursue top executives from the defunct for-profit college firm for allegedly deceiving investors about high rates of late payments and defaults on student loans backed by the firm.

California’s community colleges seek to rebrand career and technical education amid a broad state push that includes $200 million more in annual funding.

A look inside the AltSchool.

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.