When University of Washington students return from winter break to their campus in Seattle next month, they'll find dozens of homeless people living in a parking lot — at the school's invitation.

Last year, the Internet of things accounted for just a small portion of the $132 billion in sales generated by telecommunications giant Verizon — if all goes well, the company might cross the $1 billion threshold in annual sales for this business within the 12 months.

The battle over whether graduate students at universities can unionize entered a new phase on Friday, when Columbia University filed a challenge with the National Labor Relations Board over the recent vote by its graduate assistants to unionize.

The most-edited Wikipedia pages of the year have been revealed and the top 20 includes "Deaths in 2016", "Vincent Van Gogh" and "Donald Trump".

A 102-year-old scientist has won a battle to keep working on campus at an Australian university.

The state Higher Education Coordinating Council on Monday recommended that Florida lawmakers endorse its goal of having 55 percent of the state's working-age population hold college degrees or professional certificates by 2025.

A freshman who says he has a 4.0 announces his plans to drop out and denounces college as a scam -- setting off a debate on his soon-to-be-former campus and elsewhere.

She is a successful businesswoman, author and celebrity in her own right, with a reported net worth of $150m (£120m).

Fits and starts are all too common in the sustainability world.

An open access journal has forcefully denied links to Russian spies after three intelligence experts quit a regular University of Cambridge security seminar it co-sponsored, fearing Russian influence.