A jaguar featured at an Olympic torch ceremony was shot dead by a soldier shortly after the event in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus as the animal escaped from its handlers

The Education Department has created new data reports on the performance of accrediting agencies, using measures such as graduation and loan repayment rates at colleges the agencies oversee.

As sightings of leopards in populated areas increase, Indian authorities are trapping the animals and keeping them in captivity

Students with only two E grades at A level should be admitted to the UK’s leading universities in order to build more diverse undergraduate cohorts, according to a former education minister

Cleveland State Community College will be offering certificates in Electrical Maintenance at the Athens Center and Electrical Maintenance and Welding Technology at its new Monroe County Center this fall

Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. would have to consider profiling Muslims in response to terror attacks.

Algerian authorities have temporarily blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to try to stop cheats posting high school exam papers online, state media reported on Sunday.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has put four small private colleges and one community college on notice, mostly due to financial problems.

A community college reform group has selected a handful of schools in Virginia and Maryland to develop degree programs using open-source materials in place of textbooks, an initiative that could save students as much as $1,300 a year.

Proposed federal rules would make it easier for people who have been cheated or misled by a college to have their student-loan debt forgiven, U.S. Department of Education officials say.