Wisconsin regents aren’t done changing the way faculty members are evaluated. This time, they are seeking to give administrators independent power over posttenure reviews -- a move faculty groups oppose.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a ban on full-face veils in the country, during a speech at her party's conference

Singapore has the highest achieving students in international education rankings, with its teenagers coming top in tests in maths, reading and science.

Three in four scientists depicted in primary school science textbooks are men, according to a study that hopes to shed further light on female under-representation in science.

Professor Watchlist faces challenge from Watchlist Redux, where being named is intended as a badge of honor and where "radical" applies to Socrates, Jesus and Alan Turing, as well as those singled out today.

Globalization creates winners and losers.

Mary Baldwin University’s president and board chairwoman sought Thursday to quell the anger and confusion over the announcement that men will be allowed to live on campus at the historically women’s college.

Many of the fake news websites that sprang up during the US election campaign have been traced to a small city in Macedonia ...

In 2012, Paul Polman, the chairman of Unilever, a global consumer goods company, wrote, "It is evident that an economy that extracts resources at increasing rates without consideration for the environment in which it operates ...

Holding students back to repeat a course, term or whole year of study – a policy known as “grade retention” – has positive effects on performance although it also increases dropout rates, a study has found.