The targets set in the Paris Agreement on climate change are ambitious but necessary. Failure to meet them will lead to widespread drought, disease and desperation in some of the world’s poorest regions.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy to ban travelers from five Muslim-majority countries is lawful, the U.S. Supreme Court said on 26 June.

Hong Kong Baptist University opted to keep a policy requiring students to take a three-part Mandarin course or pass a proficiency test in order to graduate despite student protests

Online college programs were supposed to be less expensive. With no physical campus to maintain, no limits on class sizes and the ability to recycle content, you'd think they should be.

President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities

We often get asked questions from urban planners, policymakers and real estate professionals asking how they should prepare for the future of mobility today.

Claims that a chatbot can diagnose medical conditions as accurately as a GP have sparked a row between the software's creators and UK doctors.

For one minute and ten seconds on Tuesday, I worked in a trendy hummus shop and took a reservation from a guy who punctuated his sentences with "awesome" and "um."

Four liberal arts colleges teamed up to work together on MOOCs. Their paths diverged, but the experience was far from a waste of time and energy.

A former pension manager barred by the Securities and Exchange Commission helped convince his former colleague — the man who oversees the University of Michigan's endowment — to pour nearly $100 million into funds he represented.