US academic Richard Thaler has won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions in the field of behavioural economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced.

Tech giant IBM has made no secret of its big plans for blockchain technology, a digital ledger system that began life as the tracking and accounting mechanism attached to the alternative currency Bitcoin.

Just when you thought there's an emoji for everything, Apple is adding hundreds more.

China has started to renovate a 1,000-year-old high school in East China's Shandong province.

Research finds that traditional predictors of whether a student will cheat lose their value if a student dislikes the course.

Transgender women will be allowed to enroll in one of the three female-only colleges at Cambridge University, the school has said.

Spending at four big institutions pushed UK universities’ overall estates expenditure past £3 billion for the first time, according to a report on the state of higher education estate management.

Recently Marie Claire, a major fashion magazine, published its first sustainability issue.

Spain's Constitutional Court has suspended next Monday's session of the Catalan parliament, in a bid to pre-empt a possible push for independence.

Every public institution of higher education in the state has joined together in support of the newly launched Growth4VA campaign, an effort to promote the state’s education system.