MORE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES ARE BUILDING $1 BILLION ENDOWMENTS

In 2015, Stephen Blyth, then chief executive of Harvard University's endowment, was making 15 million, according to tax filings... READ MORE›

TAX BILL DROPS CONTROVERSIAL PROVISIONS ON COLLEGE LOANS, TUITION WAIVERS

If true, this is welcome for the millions of students who use these benefits every year to help them finance a college education, Hartle said... READ MORE›

SENATE TWIST ON NEW ENDOWMENT TAX COULD SPARE SOME U.S. SCHOOLS

A few dozen private college endowments could dodge a bullet with the sweeping tax bill approved by the Senate early Saturday morning after a last-minute amendment... READ MORE›

OVERSEAS STUDENTS TURNING AWAY FROM US UNIVERSITIES

The study showed that 290,836 international students entered the US in the fall of last year, compared with 300,743 at the same time 2015... READ MORE›

PROMINENT HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR FINED FOR KNOCKING STUDENT DOWN AND SPITTING IN HIS FACE

HIROSHIMA - The Higashihiroshima Summary Court has ordered a 56-year-old professor of Hiroshima University to pay ?300,000 in fines for abusing a student, it was learned Thursday... READ MORE›

STUDENT (19) DIES AFTER SUSTAINING CRITICAL INJURIES IN 'FREAK ACCIDENT'

A Galway student who suffered critical injuries in a fall at a house in Limerick four days ago has died... READ MORE›

NUMBER OF UNIVERSITY DROPOUTS DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TREBLES

The number of students to drop out of university with mental health problems has more than trebled in recent years, official figures show... READ MORE›

CARLETON UNIVERSITY FACES BACKLASH AFTER SCALE REMOVED FROM GYM

Aidan Patten, a 21-year-old Carleton music student, said the scale controversy is generating some heated debate among his friends... READ MORE›

TOPLESS SELFIE STUDENT CRASHES INTO TEXAS POLICE CAR

Miranda Rader, 19, rear-ended the patrol vehicle while sending nude photos to her boyfriend through the social media app Snapchat, police say... READ MORE›

DRUNK STUDENT CRASHES INTO COP CAR WHILE TAKING TOPLESS SELFIE

The student, Miranda Rader, also had an open bottle of wine in a cup holder next to her, the Bryan Police Department said... READ MORE›

TOP 100 WORLD UNIVERSITIES 2016/17 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

A ETH ZURICH SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 9 A A A 9... READ MORE›

ENGLAND HAS HIGHEST UNIVERSITY TUITION FEES IN INDUSTRIALISED WORLD, SURVEY FINDS

Throughout the OECD, graduates earn on average double over their lifetime than those whose highest education was secondary school, it finds... READ MORE›

LABOUR WARNED OVER TUITION FEES CUT

Shadow universities minister Liam Byrne said the student finance system is going bust under the current system... READ MORE›

CHINESE UNIVERSITIES CLIMB WORLD RANKINGS AS UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO SLIPS TO LOWEST POSITION EVER

The University of Tokyo, Japan's top institution, fell seven places to No... READ MORE›

DUTERTE APPROVES FREE STATE COLLEGE FEES OPPOSED BY BUDGET CHIEF

The president said the long-term benefits of education outweighed the very heavy budgetary implications, Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra said at a televised briefing in Manila... READ MORE›

It's Time For Universities To Face Up To Our Student Mental Health Crisis... READ MORE›

SURGE IN FOREIGN STUDENTS MAY BE CROWDING AMERICANS OUT OF ELITE COLLEGES

The only Ivy League schools with single-digit international shares in 2014 were Dartmouth College 8 percent and Cornell University 9 percent ... READ MORE›

'MOLLY' OVERDOSES PUT DOZEN STUDENTS IN US HOSPITALS

A dozen university students have been treated at Connecticut hospitals after overdosing on Molly or MDMA, a popular synthetic party drug... READ MORE›

CLASHES IN CAPE TOWN AS STUDENTS DEMAND FREE TUITION

Students in the South African city of Cape Town have clashed with police during protest demanding free education across the country... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA GRAPPLES WITH CAMPUS ASSAULTS AND REPRISALS AGAINST VICTIMS

A.N.U. introduced a sexual consent training course for all first-year students this year, said Richard Baker, pro vice chancellor of the university... READ MORE›

THESE ARE THE 10 BEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD (AND 4 ARE IN BRITAIN)

US and UK lead the way for having the best universities in the world, according to QS World University Rankings... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE IN CAPE TOWN OVER TUITION

Mr. Nzimande has said this week that increases would be capped at 6 percent for 2016, but the South African Students Congress is opposing any increase... READ MORE›

UK S OSBORNE SAYS DANGER OF VERY BAD OUTCOME ON GREECE INCREASING BLOOMBERG

Indeed, they note, one of the most vocal arguments against such controls came from the education minister himself... READ MORE›

TRUMP TRAVEL CURBS POSE REVENUE CHALLENGES FOR U.S. COLLEGES

Of the 1,043,839 international students in the United States during the 2015-16 school year, 17,354, or 1.7 percent, came from the countries affected by the order, IIE data shows... READ MORE›

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DEAN TO QUIT OVER GUN LAW

But for Frederick Steiner, dean of the Texas School of Architecture, guns should not be allowed on university grounds... READ MORE›

STARTLING VIDEO SHOWS SEA LION SNATCHING GIRL FROM PIER

In an instant, the massive mammal shoots up, grabs her dress and pulls her into the water as people scream... READ MORE›

FOREIGN STUDENTS OFFER LIFELINE TO CASH-STRAPPED U.S. STATE SCHOOLS

As the chart above shows, in 2008, student tuition made up 35.8 percent of public colleges' revenue, which also includes state appropriations... READ MORE›

STILL THINK AMERICA IS THE 'LAND OF OPPORTUNITY'? LOOK AT THIS CHART.

Right after college, poor kids earn about two-thirds as much as rich kids, on average... READ MORE›

CLINTON & TRUMP ROCK COLLEGE CAMPUSES, STUDENTS A NO-SHOW

The first debate was held at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York... READ MORE›

UK STUDENT VISA POLICY COULD SHUT OUT FUTURE LEADERS, SAYS THINKTANK

Manchester University educated 10 world leaders as either undergraduates or postgraduates, Oxford nine, Sandhurst and London's colleges seven apiece, Cambridge four, and Bristol and LSE three each... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA'S STUDENT PROTESTS ARE PART OF A MUCH BIGGER STRUGGLE

Universities are part of a broken system that has failed to address South Africa's enduring inequities, they say... READ MORE›

PENS FOR HIRE: HOW STUDENTS CHEAT, AND HOW THEY GET AWAY WITH IT

With hundreds of students in an exam room, it was unlikely that any of the other students would recognise him as an imposter, he said... READ MORE›

UNIVERSITY PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD: SHARE YOUR PHOTOS

Are you staging a protest or occupation to fight against the commercialisation of higher education? Share your photos via GuardianWitness... READ MORE›

ID CONFIRMED OF EDMONTON UNIVERSITY STUDENT MISSING AFTER ATTACK IN FRANCE

MacEwan University has confirmed that the Edmonton student missing after a deadly attack in Nice, France, is Mykhaylo Bazelevskyy... READ MORE›

CHINESE PRESIDENT SIGNALS TIGHTENING OF CONTROL OVER UNIVERSITIES

Leadership and party-building in the higher-learning institutions is a fundamental guarantee for running socialist universities with Chinese features well, Xi was quoted as saying... READ MORE›

UKRAINIAN MAN STUDYING IN ALBERTA DIED IN ATTACK IN NICE, FRANCE, EMBASSY CONFIRMS

On Monday morning, McEwan University officials could not be reached for comment on the embassy's confirmation of a death of an Edmonton student... READ MORE›