Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing the nation’s largest servicer of both federal and private student loans for systematically and illegally failing borrowers at every stage of repayment.

An internal study of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by Harvard and MIT shows a serious decline in the number of students choosing to enroll and certify via these internet-accessible classrooms.

The leader of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has said that Donald Trump’s presidency “will not change” the university’s mission and values, claiming that the worst-case scenario is that the institution will have to find new sources of funding.

Study suggests top humanities journals favor research by professors working at or who earned Ph.D.s at elite institutions.

On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, religious leaders at Amherst College plan to consecrate the campus chapel on Thursday as a symbol of solidarity with the illegal immigrants the president-elect has threatened to deport.

After major budget cuts for universities, Ph.D.s are leaving the country.

Donald Trump’s election has left investors betting that the trillion-dollar US federal student loan system could be shifted back to banks, with a leading Democrat putting his pick as education secretary under pressure on the issue.

Kent State University is closing its golf course because of declining revenues and increasing operating costs.

Fears have been raised over whether universities are “buying” journal papers to improve their ranking after a scholar revealed that he was offered more than £35,000 to list publications under the name of a lesser-known Chinese institution.

Discipline needs to forge new research agendas and promote its benefits more effectively, workshop hears