First, some good news: In recent decades, students from modest backgrounds have flooded onto college campuses.

Children in France will start school at the age of three instead of six, under new reforms announced by President Emmanuel Macron.

Finding many educators are using outdated flipped learning techniques, a new group proposes global training standards to keep them up to date.

Contemporary artist Grayson Perry has expressed concern about the low numbers of students from disadvantaged backgrounds studying arts degrees.

Sociologist’s essay about the “gray” area of sexual consent sets off allegations of rape against him and doubts about whether he should be teaching a class on masculinities in America.

Stereotypes about attractiveness and androgyny still hold back the progress of women in the sciences and mathematics, a scholar has argued.

The Yuhuatai High School in Nanjing, Jiangsu province is to introduce a top-tier international education program to promote Chinese secondary school students’ college-readiness and help more of them realize their Ivy-League college dreams.

85% of Chinese international students at Penn say they don't have one American friend.

President Trump, in forum on issues facing young people, extols vocational training and repeats comments that many educators said reflected ignorance of the two-year sector. He also says he is more popular on college campuses than most realize.

The University of Cambridge has been accused of washing its hands of the conduct of a researcher at the centre of a Facebook data-harvesting scandal, in a case that raises wider questions about institutions’ responsibility for academics’ outside activities.