The University of Queensland medical school may change its medical exam weighting for graduates after research showed it may be unnecessarily favouring men over women as future doctors.

Israel's Finance Ministry said on Wednesday it was cutting funds to seminary students exempt from compulsory military service, in the latest battle between the Jewish state's secular majority and an ultra-Orthodox minority.

Endorsed by the University of Oxford, the “mid-stakes” Oxford Test of English (OTE) gives students an externally validated assessment of their language level based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) but is not an accepted test for university admissions or student visa applications.

Cancer is one of mankind’s biggest killers, but one author believes we are using the wrong strategies to try and beat it.

The number of non-full-time employees on Australian university campuses increased by 17 percent in the latest official count ...

When it comes to pimping out a fish tank, a novice might purchase a bag of brightly colored gravel and a few plastic ornaments.

On Feb. 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived to unprecedented fanfare at New York City’s newly renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport.

With a sharp decline in pollinating insects, farmers are being encouraged to grow flowering plants that can support these important insects.

At least four former Marlboro Men, those rugged actors of the famous ad campaign, have died of smoking-related disease.

The recent news that Google had acquired Boston Dynamics, the well-known robot maker from Cambridge, Mass., capped a year of frenetic acquisitions of no less than eight robotics companies in 2013.