The University of Tennessee athletics department inappropriately pressured officials in charge of campus discipline and exerted undue influence that placed students and institutional integrity in "peril,"

Two months before the Civil War began, Noble Leslie DeVotie was boarding a steamship when he slipped, fell into the waters of Mobile Bay and drowned.

Wellesley College is joining a growing list of women's colleges that accept transgender students.

In 2005, following a season of poor academic performance from his players, Syracuse University’s head basketball coach, Jim Boeheim, hired a new director of basketball operations and gave him an imperative: “fix” the academic problems of his athletes.

Ohio's 14 public universities owe $6.5 billion for debt mostly created by what some education experts have called unnecessary campus building booms.

Gov. Jerry Brown has made a habit of criticizing California's public colleges and universities for what he sees as a failure to adapt to the 21st century. Now he is putting the state's money where his mouth is.

The news that a Chinese maths textbook will be introduced into Britain this summer has again caught the eyes of people in the education field ...

The proportion of students scoring top degrees at the University of Cambridge has increased significantly since 1960, according to a new analysis

A little more than 25 years ago, an Australian economist called Bruce Chapman devised a brilliant scheme that allowed the federal government to impose tuition fees on the nation’s university students without them having to pay a cent upfront.

In fall 2013, one in every eight students enrolled at colleges and universities in the U.S. studied exclusively online.