More than 20 years after the end of apartheid, the pressure for South Africa’s universities to shed their old identities and to embrace transformation is greater than ever.

Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place.

New Zealand has banned its first book in 22 years after an award-winning New Zealand author's novel was criticized for its offensive language and gratuitous sexual imagery.

The head of Australia's opposition party signaled how his party plans to approach higher education in next year's elections -- and university officials there are alarmed.

Dennis Hopper once told a story about indulging in some combination of drugs and alcohol while on a movie set. (Surprise!)

If any particularly observant readers noticed that my byline disappeared from Times Higher Education around this time a year ago

Two Louisiana university systems have quietly settled lawsuits filed against BP that sought to recover hundreds of millions of dollars for what the schools said was lost revenue tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

A homemade gadget can disable the systems that allow self-driving cars to see where they are going, a security researcher has said.

I find the concept of Teachers' Day a bit odd actually.

Academics in countries adopting a permissive attitude under copyright law to data mining are three times more likely to publish research based on the technique than colleagues in countries with a more restrictive approach.