More than 10,000 Australian university students will receive grants to study in Asia and thousands more will have access to generous student loans as part of the federal government's strategy to strengthen engagement with the world’s most populous region.

Libraries used to be the main stewards of the cultural and scientific record. But in the era of digital storage “cloud computing,” the institutions best-positioned to manage vast quantities of data are often companies such as Google and Elsevier.

A new software platform that seeks to simplify homestay bookings for language schools worldwide, while increasing service and safety for students, could “professionalise” the largely unregulated homestay industry, its owners claim.

MOOCs are on the tip of everyone’s tongue here at the annual Educause meeting, presumably because of their scale and the technologies their recent champions have built to support that scale.

It has never been too hard to spot the student in class who didn’t do the assigned reading -- she’s usually the one in the back, not raising her hand, and avoiding eye contact in hopes of not being called on.

More and more of parents in China are sending their children to study abroad at a young age.

Maryland’s Dream Act, originally passed by the state legislature in March 2011, will stand, as voters passed the measure Tuesday, 58 to 42 percent.

Fueled by changing demographics, online education is quickly becoming what some experts describe as “disruptive innovation.”

This year, for the first time, a third of the nation’s 25- to 29-year-olds have earned at least a bachelor’s degree, according to an analysis of newly available census data.

A growing chorus of education policy advocates is urging the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen graduation-rate accountability