Education Department’s inspector general labels Western Governors as a correspondence-course provider, seeks reimbursement of $713 million in aid and may broadly threaten competency-based education.

For many students, alcohol is unofficially part of the college experience.

Half the editorial board of the journal Third World Quarterly have resigned after an outcry over an article arguing in favour of colonialism, with the author then “requesting the withdrawal” of the essay.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says his company will share 3,000 Russia-linked political adverts with US investigators.

Business leaders, government officials and members of civil society are gathering once again in New York City for Climate Week NYC.

California's community college system wants to boost the number of low-income students taking advantage of the state's free tuition option.

Even as GAO and others say department needs to do more to monitor institutions for financial risks, department doesn't plan changes.

Taiwan hopes that attracting students from further afield, particularly mainland China, will help to address its higher education crisis.

Too few new antibiotics are under development to combat the threat of multidrug-resistant infections ...

A British tapestry depicting Native Americans as "subhuman, warlike savages" should not be put on public show, campaigners say.