A community college in the San Fernando Valley has become one of the latest institutions to pay ransom to hackers who took control of its computer system.

More than 800 career education programs saddle students with debt they can't afford to pay, the federal government said Monday, pointing the finger primarily at for-profit programs, but also at graduate programs in the arts run by elite schools such as Harvard and the University of Southern California.

China is making headlines with its stratospheric spending on global soccer stars -- but is it also undergoing a rugby revolution?

US President-elect Donald Trump says allegations Russia has compromising material on him are "fake news, phoney stuff", put together by "sick people".

Gov. Rick Scott envisions an easier way for Florida students to get a diploma — and, critically, a job — without an avalanche of debt.

When we read tweets, what assumptions do we make about the strangers behind the 140 characters?

For much of each week, UC Berkeley senior Caelle McKaveney studies chemical signaling in spiders, nucleotide coding patterns and other serious science.

Amid enrollment declines, speakers at Modern Language Association discuss shifts in the major, such as a de-emphasis of traditional survey and the addition of more writing-related courses.

Chinese students who study English will take fewer tests to prove their proficiency after new unified standards for English-language learning are released at the end of this year.

Donald Trump will hold his first press conference in almost six months on Wednesday...