They carefully sniff at the traps set on the chilly ground of Alaska’s north slope, suspicious of their sudden arrival.

In 2012, John L. Hennessy, president of Stanford University, famously told The New Yorker that technology was about to dramatically change higher education.

The University of Illinois board of trustees voted unanimously Thursday to establish an engineering-based medical college at its Urbana-Champaign campus in partnership with the Carle Foundation, an Urbana-based integrated-care network.

Drinking water supplies around the world often contain trace amounts of pharmaceuticals and synthetic compounds that may be harmful to human health.

What are the benefits of cruelty? This question occurred to me after forcing myself to watch some of the slickly produced propaganda videos of the group that calls itself the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

China's premier on Sunday offered a sobering assessment of the world's second largest economy amid fears of a sustained slowdown but brushed aside concern that it could face a full-blown economic crisis.

The growth in global carbon emissions stalled last year, according to data from the International Energy Agency.

Nancie Atwell, an English teacher from Maine in the United States, has been named as the winner of a competition to find the world's best teacher, with a prize of $1m (£680,000).

Higher education’s “romance with entrepreneurialism” puts the hallowed principle of academic freedom at risk at universities around the world

After a month of occupation of university buildings, University of Amsterdam students are increasingly winning support for their protest against pressure on universities to focus on ‘effectivity’