The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) provides a legal basis for the creation of an online marketplace for academic credit that could be exploited by massive open online course providers, conference speakers have argued.

The initial early application deadline for campuses including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology came and went yesterday, and hundreds of students missed it.

Between hovering parents and tiger mums, a growing number of children are getting tutoring outside the classroom in many countries around the world.

College freshmen — not test scores or advisers — soon will have the final say in whether students need academic help.

A majority of Americans believe online instruction is at least as good as classroom-based courses in terms of providing good value ...

The new head of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education was ominous in his remarks on Thursday regarding the future of the 14 universities he oversees.

For most of his 17 years, Jordan Alexander has thought of Covenant College as the place he and his family "go to sled when it snows."

Before this weekend, the top discussion topics on the forum of Biology-Online -- which describes itself as the "world's largest and most comprehensive biology discussion board," were on mutations and body temperature.

Four of the world’s major research university groups released a joint statement in China on 10 October outlining the characteristics of contemporary research universities as the next step towards establishing an international network of the four associations.

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