It used to be that to hold out a business card bearing the name of a UK university gained you automatic respect in Asia.

As technologies become ubiquitous, familiar labels will vanish

A common demand of minority student protests is more minority counselors in a range of student service departments. Is this wise or does it promote segregation?

It all began with a car crash. I was doing some ironing when my mum came in to tell me that a family friend had been killed in a road accident in Thailand.

Blogging is now an essential weapon in most scientists’ armoury

Last week, in my column 50 Shades of Brown, I posited that the sustainability community needs Nixon-goes-to-China-like disruptive leadership in order to catalyze the kind of nonlinear, exponential rate of shift to clean energy that we need in order to save the planet.

Despite the debacle at Mount St. Mary's, some presidential search committees are likely to continue to seek out candidates without traditional academic careers, experts say.

Christine Ortiz is setting out to break the mold with a radical approach to higher education.

A federal magistrate-judge in New York City has ruled that the U.S. government can't force Apple to hack an iPhone to investigate a drug dealer.

China’s lucrative black market for fish parts is threatening the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal.