Higher Education

US police said Monday they had likely foiled a bomb and gun attack at a Florida university, after an early morning incident that saw the mastermind of the plot apparently take his own life.

Google said Wednesday that it has bought a Canadian startup specializing in getting machines to understand what people are trying to say.

Harvard University administrators secretly searched the e-mail accounts of 16 resident deans in an effort to learn who leaked information about a student cheating scandal to the news media, two US newspapers reported Monday.

The recession ravaging Spain's economy has not held back Amancio Ortega, a railwayman's son from Galicia, who has just leaped to third place in Forbes magazine's listing of the richest people in the world.

Teenage boys in a Shanghai school are on the front line of teaching reform after the world's top-scoring education system introduced male-only classes over worries they are lagging girls.

Pretoria Magistrate Desmond Nair announced on Friday that he will rule on Oscar Pistorius's bail application around 2:30 pm (1230 GMT), on the fourth day of court arguments.

Older workers should take further education courses in order to make themselves employable later into their sixties, higher education minister David Willetts said in comments published Thursday.

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas caused a major stir when he broke a nearly seven-year silence this week to crack a joke during oral arguments in a case before the highest court in the land.

Hiroshima University said it would bestow honorary doctorates on three former students from Southeast Asia who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city.

Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday confirmed a government decision to officially recognise the status of the first Israeli university established in the occupied West Bank.

Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday confirmed a government decision to officially recognise the status of the first settler university established in the occupied West Bank.

The University of Iowa has agreed to add LGBT-inclusive language to its admissions forms. The University of Iowa becomes the nation's first public institution of higher learning to add LGBT-inclusive language to its admission forms. ?Do you identify with the LGBTQ Community?? the new college admission application asks. An additional ?Transgender? option is also included. Both questions are optional. ?The move by the University of Iowa administrators to include these specific LGBT identity questions represent a growing paradigm shift in higher education to actively recognize out LGBT youth populations and to exercise greater responsibility for LGBT student safety, retention and academic success,? Shane Windmeyer, executive director of Campus Pride, the nation's leading advocate for LGBT students, said in a statement lauding the university's move. ?For the first time, a major, public and national research university has taken efforts to identify their LGBT students from the very first mo

An Indian college announced on Monday it had banned girls from wearing jeans, short dresses and T-shirts to crack down on sexual harassment, sparking outrage from pupils and rights campaigners.

Sudanese police used tear gas and batons on Sunday against hundreds of protesters who rallied in support of four dead students originally from the conflict-plagued Darfur region, witnesses said.

Sudanese police used tear gas and batons on Sunday against protesters marching in support of four dead students originally from the conflict-plagued Darfur region, witnesses said.

Sudanese authorities on Saturday shut a university after four students, originally from the conflict-plagued Darfur region, were found dead following an alleged crackdown on a tuition protest.

The group Doctors Without Borders has aided victims of war and disease in countries like Sudan, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Millions of young Asians studying in developed countries have fuelled a $200 billion global market in student housing, an international property group said Thursday.

Three top Dutch medical schools are asking thousands of travellers to tropical countries to donate stool samples on return for a study into the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier faces charges in connection with the Jerry Sandusky child molesting scandal, Pennsylvania's attorney general announced on Thursday.