Universities across Europe are realizing that their dependence on government funding puts them at a disadvantage.
Education is a major stumbling block in Brazil’s bid to accelerate its economy and establish itself as one of the world’s most powerful nations.
To better understand the world in which they will live, students need foundations in economics, statistics, finance and psychology.
Could the bubble be on the way out? In the near future, students may take their tests on computers.
A recent Chicago forum on for-profit colleges made pertinent points about the state of American eduction but ignored some important issues.
Though many students are liberals on social issues, the weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties.
New York City’s hospital system wants to renegotiate longstanding contracts that allow medical schools to manage physicians.
A new curriculum at N.Y.U. is intended to foster more personal relationships between medical students and patients.
Arne Duncan’s bus tour from New York to Maine is billed as a way to honor teachers.
A team of former N.C.A.A. athletes unveiled the Capital One Cup, which will be awarded to the top men’s and women’s Division I programs based on cumulative on-field performance across multiple sports.
Bret D. Schundler, the former education commissioner, emphatically denied misleading anyone in an episode that cost New Jersey a $400 million grant.
The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.
The value-added formula to evaluate teachers is gaining acceptance, and critics, across America.
Even though Herbert E. Nass and his wife, Jodi, loved their old school, Horace Mann, legal action seemed right when they found themselves in a fight over their son’s suspension.
Marc Hauser is on leave after being found “solely responsible” for eight counts of scientific misconduct.
David E. Van Zandt will replace Bob Kerrey, a former Nebraska senator, as the university’s president.
Treating your career development education as if it were part of a stock portfolio can help you increase the return on your investment.
Job hunters must learn to navigate the social protocol of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
Government money is helping smaller institutions build programs that train students in various emerging and established energy fields.
Thousands of courses are offered in entrepreneurship by colleges and universities, small-business development centers and chambers of commerce.
For continuing education students, a variety of options for foreign language classes are available, including online learning.
Continuing education programs across the country are finding students increasingly focused on the arts and humanities, whether for new careers or to re-explore great authors.
Whether they are concerned about job security or climbing the career ladder, people often conclude that if there’s any solution, it’s more education.
The Obama administration will give New Orleans $1.8 billion in a lump-sum reimbursement for schools that were damaged or destroyed in the flooding after Hurricane Katrina.
Many educators in states that did not win or even participate in President Obama’s Race to the Top competition said the rules favored densely populated eastern states.
Local officials who pushed for educational changes celebrated a victory in a competition for federal money.
Queens College’s only dorm houses 500 students out of 20,000, and contains full kitchens, cable television, wireless Internet access and private bathrooms.
Kaplan University had signed an agreement with California community colleges for students shut out of classes at their own campus to take an online version at Kaplan.
The Internet is calling into question one of academia’s sacred rites: the peer- reviewed journal article.
Faced with parents who have a hard time saying goodbye to their freshmen, colleges formalize the split.
The Los Angeles Times and an education economist set out to create a consumer guide to education.
Some schools allow students to move into their dorms early -- for a price.
Two recent books resurrect the debate over universities and the supposedly pampered people who teach there.
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