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.

Researchers have warned of a growing crisis in science in Latin America as new analysis lays bare how low salaries, underfunding and excessive bureaucracy are fuelling a brain drain of scholars.

If you’re struggling under a load of student loans, you already know how hard it is to make ends meet.

Pilot program that alarmed faculty members has been abandoned, and there are no plans to restore it, agency says.

Before she left home, Hera’emperatrize “Trize” Gipson gave her three younger siblings a big hug goodbye.

Elsevier’s successful court battle against sites providing unlawful access to millions of journal articles sends a message that publicly funded research has become a “corporate asset and private property”, according to a scholarly publishing expert.

Academics have expressed concern about plans to expand a programme in the US which sees airline passengers asked to remove books from carry-on luggage.

A number of lower income students will have easier access to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering thanks to a $5 million grant that will link the university to two community colleges.

Court agrees to hear case, reinstates ban except for foreign nationals -- including admitted students -- “who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.

A UK-born vice-chancellor has said that he will be forced out of his job in Australia by new visa restrictions in the country.