Even by the hyperactive standards of Donald Trump, it was a wild weekend.

The Ministry of Education and other government departments have jointly issued a plan to build world-class universities and world-class disciplines, which is of great significance to realize the Chinese Dream and increase China's soft power.

“The Case for Colonialism” has been revoked -- not over claims of shoddy scholarship or publication irregularities but rather threats to the journal editor. Some call it a disturbing precedent that could make academics less safe.

A program that gives financial incentives to students who transfer to a state university from a community college is expanding.

US academic Richard Thaler has won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions in the field of behavioural economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced.

Tech giant IBM has made no secret of its big plans for blockchain technology, a digital ledger system that began life as the tracking and accounting mechanism attached to the alternative currency Bitcoin.

Just when you thought there's an emoji for everything, Apple is adding hundreds more.

China has started to renovate a 1,000-year-old high school in East China's Shandong province.

Research finds that traditional predictors of whether a student will cheat lose their value if a student dislikes the course.

Transgender women will be allowed to enroll in one of the three female-only colleges at Cambridge University, the school has said.