One of the closest confidantes of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was fighting for her political survival on Wednesday after a committee of university professors stripped her of her title of doctor of philosophy. Annette Schavan, minister for

Student visa holders in Australia have been tricked into paying large penalty fines to offshore accounts for unlawfully working beyond their visa conditions.

They also worry about cost and favor making it easier for working adults to earn degrees, including the awarding of credit for prior learning.

Bring readings to class, either in hard copy or electronic format. Sign up for a blog account in order to contribute to online class discussions. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Don’t call me “professor.”

Penn State liberal arts and education faculty will be partners in the new World Universities Network (WUN) Language Assessment Research Network (LARN), along with six other universities from China, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

“Financial” and “stability” aren’t terms that have paired well in many sectors of late, and higher education is no exception.

Wisconsin is shaping up to be an important front in the battle over for-profit higher education, with a likely crackdown in Milwaukee and a brewing debate over tighter regulations at the state level.

But now that they exist, how can cash-strapped Texas students get them? The Texas Tribune has assembled a handy guide to help students find the new $10,000 degrees...

Maybe it was inevitable that one of the new massive open online courses would crash.

More than half of the roughly 125 Harvard students investigated by the college’s disciplinary board in a high-profile cheating scandal last fall were ordered to temporarily withdraw from the school ...