Education

Laurent passed his a-levels at 8 years old and wants to start studying maths at university after the summer.

Officials with the Federal Trade Commission announced that University of Phoenix will cancel $141 million in debts owed to the school by students who were harmed by ads that were allegedly deceptive.

Texas A&M will join more than 2,000 universities in the US that have already become smoke and tobacco-free, according to Texas A&M President Michael K. Young.

A Brooklyn teacher got the boot from the classroom for telling his first-grade class that Santa Clause isn't real.

Around half of the class of Rhodes Scholars from the U.S. who will study at Oxford University in England next year are first-generation Americans and a majority are minority candidates. 

Oak Ridge Elementary is thanking one mystery man for his generosity this Giving Tuesday.

An Atlanta sixth grader turned his struggle with bullies into a patented invention to help other students.

Colorado school districts closed 46 schools over a possible outbreak of norovirus.

Taking what she sees as a potentially life-saving step in the aftermath of nine recent USC student deaths -- some of which are suspected of being drug overdoses -- the president of a university sorority said she hopes to make the overdose-reversal drug Narcan available to her members.

Many students entering college haven’t mastered basic life skills such as changing a tire or balancing a checkbook, so some universities are responding with noncredit workshops sometimes called “Adulting 101.”