About 40 percent of students who decided not to go to their college or university of first choice cited reasons related to costs.

Amy Haddock, a 41-year-old stay-at-home mom, may not seem like a mechanically minded tinkerer, but she wants a career.

One of the world’s biggest funders of scientific research is to establish an open access platform that will allow its grant winners to publish their findings...

A recent article in the Asia & The Pacific Policy Society policy forum, "Implementing the human right to water: Turning the taps on better global water policy (PDF download)," highlights the urgent need to solve the lack of access to safe drinking water (

Twitter says it shut nearly 377,000 accounts for promoting terrorism in the second half of last year.

Elite continental European universities could find it “increasingly difficult to compete” with their US and UK counterparts ...

Republican-dominated Washington wants more occupational job training as an alternative to college degrees. But higher education will remain the federal government’s primary job-training system, albeit one experts say could use a reboot.

U.S. officials say concerns over screening procedures at some airports in the Middle East and Africa will require passengers to check in almost all electronic devices larger than a smartphone, rather than carry them into the cabin.

The University of Maryland is taking new steps to coordinate services for undocumented immigrants who are enrolled at College Park.

It could have been angry and defiant. It could have been despondent and fatalistic. Or worse, it could have been rosy and effervescent.