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Tuition discounting is a tactic private colleges have long used to control a primary revenue stream. But over the past decade, an increasingly precarious financial picture—driven…

Ask people at Columbia, Harvard or UCLA how things are going for higher education, and they might rightly say that things are quite dismal. Those places…

About 95 percent of the Education Department’s employees who don’t work on federal student aid will be furloughed for the first week of the shutdown. Photo illustration…

Forty-seven percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, according to a new poll. Jumping Rocks/Universal Images Group/Getty Images…

Hazel ShearingEducation correspondentGetty ImagesPrivate schools in England could pay more for Ofsted inspections under plans set out by the Department for Education (DfE).The DfE said the…

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, ScotlandBBCAnton Muscatelli has been in charge of Glasgow University for 16 yearsScotland’s most experienced university principal has called for a review of the…

In June, in an escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure on Harvard University to bow to its demands, a federal Office for Civil Rights announced that…

Women who miss their first breast cancer screening appointment have a 40% higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a new study.Experts at the…

“Dear Rahamat, first of all congratulations! I remember the day I got my GCSE results. The potential for your life to change has just begun.”So begins…

A group of Palestinian scholars who have been awaiting evacuation from Gaza to take up their places at universities across the UK finally arrived on Monday…