Is this the decade when we solve ocean plastic — or repeat the mistakes of the past?

he chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said on Thursday that it would be irresponsible for her to say what the university plans to do with Silent Sam, the Confederate statue that protesters pulled down in dramatic fashion on Monday.

Tennessee's tuition-free community college program is proving popular with adults.

California’s politicians and educators are getting serious about how to solve an immense and vexing problem — the graduation rate at the community colleges.

A Belgian shop has been ordered to pay a man more than €13,000 (£11,726) in damages for turning him down for a job because it wanted a woman

Companies are paying millions of dollars to hire self-driving vehicle engineers. But it’s the designers — developing the experience around the interaction between vehicles and humans — who could be the key to how smoothly (or not) autonomous vehicles enter society.

Funny jokes improve class cohesion and dud gags do no harm, study finds – but offensive quips can alienate learners

Every semester, thousands of students drop out of college because they are a few hundred dollars short of being able to pay their bills.

A higher ed researcher cited by Betsy DeVos to justify dropping gainful-employment rule says her work actually backed more stringent standards.

Academics claim that funding application deadlines are becoming tighter