Tens of thousands of foreign students have become permanent residents in Australia as a likely result of widespread fraud and corruption within and outside the federal Immigration Department.

American universities have again outranked more than 1,250 other higher education institutions around the world in the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong listing of the global top 500 universities.

The proportion of students passing their A-levels has dropped for the first time in three decades following a clampdown on exam re-sits and a shift towards tougher subjects.

Purdue University will become the next Amazon Campus, the institution announced on Wednesday, giving students a priority lane to the retail behemoth through the Purdue Student Store.

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have introduced bipartisan legislation to help schools strengthen their engineering programs to meet the growing demands of 21st century manufacturing.

For the first time in history, a woman has received the highest honor in mathematics, often nicknamed the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

China has recently released a six-year Modern Vocational Education Development Strategy in a bid to raise the profile of vocational education and fill skills gaps in a job market already saturated with gradates academically trained both at home and abroad.

The University of California System, after five years and millions of dollars spent, is asking for more time and money to get its systemwide online education initiative off the ground.

Just in time for the new academic year, students in Purdue University's Brian Lamb School of Communications will have the option to earn their bachelors degrees within three years.

On Monday (Aug. 11) afternoon, construction workers hammered away in the quiet August heat at the final stages of the nearly $100 million renovation of Monroe Hall on the Loyola University main Uptown campus.