The man behind the Rate Your Lecturer website, which encourages British university students to publicly praise or censure their teachers, has defended the project against a glut of criticism from academics.

A special commission studying the use of commission-based recruitment of international students has urged the National Association for College Admission Counseling to lift a ban on the practice,

Despite the buzz around Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), data about them is scarce, limiting the ability to judge how the courses will fit into the higher education landscape—and particularly whether they will be creditworthy and eventually profitable.

World leaders will be gathering in Northern Ireland next week for the G8 summit. Like a bunch of well-dressed people standing around a car that won't start, they will be looking for ideas to revive the spluttering engine of economic growth.

Corinthian Colleges Inc. fell the most in more than a year after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation of the for-profit college chain.

Tyler Cowen, a star economics professor at George Mason University, isn’t interested in making money off the online university he co-founded last fall.

College can be demanding. It’s even tougher when you can’t afford to eat.

Undergraduate students at the UW will be required to complete a class in some area of social, political or economic diversity before they can graduate.

More than nine million students packed examination centres all over the country for China’s annual university entrance exams.

Broadband technology is about more than streaming your latest Netflix binge from your couch.