Scholars in the U.S. oppose new law barring foreign supporters of boycotts from entering Israel, a measure defended by the country's education minister as necessary to keep out those who wish the state ill.

A revised travel ban issued by the White House no longer applies immigrants with valid visas, but area university officials are advising students from the six countries named in the executive order to play it safe.

Russia is recruiting international students to strengthen its “soft power” in former Soviet states rather than gaining any significant income from foreign enrolments, a study suggests.

Earlier this year City College of San Francisco made headlines when they announced that they would be offering free tuition to SF residents starting in Fall of 2017.

More academics will be pushed into stressful teaching-only contracts if fast-track honours degrees are rolled out across England, it has been warned.

NYU’s push to help students graduate in under four years leaves questions about who it helps and how much of a difference it can make at one of the country’s most expensive universities.

With Iowa’s public universities scrambling to cut millions from their budgets after massive pullbacks in state support, one University of Iowa professor is pitching a new funding and governance model for the Board of Regents institutions that would give them more autonomy.

A new analysis of authorship data from journal papers across several subjects and countries has given a wide view of what progress has been made on gender equality for researchers over the last 20 years.

Effort gains backers and appears to build momentum, but some scientists worry that political fallout may not be what organizers want.

All Tennessee high schools are now eligible to send electronic transcript data of current or recent students among all 649 high schools, Tennessee’s higher education institutions, Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC) for Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship eligibility ...