New results from the nation’s most widely used college admission test highlight in detailed fashion the persistent achievement gaps between students who face disadvantages and those who don’t.

Historians like to say that everything has a history. Yet the natural sciences remain somewhat removed from academic debates over what to do with monuments tied to dark chapters in American history.

The world's second largest economy is on the fast track to ditching cash.

Steve Bannon's remarks on the Catholic Church backing a US immigration scheme because immigrants fill the pews are "insulting", a US cardinal has said.

Arkansas’s new public online university chooses national accreditor over its regional agency, raising questions about pace, prestige and the state of quality assurance.

As the president of LaGuardia Community College, Gail Mellow spent years encouraging the hundreds of undocumented students on her school’s Queens campus to sign up for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

England’s new university access tsar must be a “strong public advocate” for the widening participation agenda in higher education, a leading sector expert has said.

By 2030, the target date for the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, the number of youth aged 15 to 24 years will reach nearly 1.3 billion globally, up 7 percent from 2015.

The US has proposed a range of new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, including an oil ban and a freeze on leader Kim Jong-un's assets.

Twenty luxury cars, including Maserati, Ferrari and Porsche, were parked at the campus of Wuchang Polytechnic College in Hubei province to welcome its freshmen