Here's some advice to get you on the right path.

From the relatively exotic to the seemingly mundane, certain occupations carry an underlying danger that can reach up to 117 fatalities per 100,000 workers.

English majors get a bad rap. However, many English majors go on to become highly successful people in business, government and technology.

Are workers in your profession taking the most sick days?

According to the latest figures, many of the worst profs are teaching in schools in the Midwest and on the East Coast.

Stanford and Columbia are among the top 10. See what other schools made the list.

Here's a list of the 25 private colleges and universities in the U.S. with the highest freshmen retention rates.

How do you project success? New research suggests it may help to have a nice, deep bass.

Holmes' resignation letter quickly went viral when his brother-in-law tweeted a picture of it.

In small but growing numbers, employers in recent years have been refusing to hire smokers, arguing that coaxing tobacco users to quit with free cessation programs or cash incentives hasn't worked.

Certain occupations are suffering more than others — and will continue to suffer for the remainder of the decade and beyond.

Companies are duping employees into committing unsafe computing as a way to train them not to be so easily fooled.

Some people know what they want to do from an early age and focus on it relentlessly.

The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State , today announced the appointment of new members to the Science, Technology and Innovation Council ...

Oklahoma State University’s business graduate programs, which have received national and international acclaim for nearly 60 years, are poised for even greater success with the est

SANTA BARBARA -- Governet, innovators of technology solutions for highereducation institutions, announced today that Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), renowned for its academic leadership andachievements ...

Students in grades 6-12 in West Michigan, who are curious about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math careers, are eligible to win a Kindle Fire, remote-control helicopt

LONDON, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --With almost one in four students failing to graduate, EvolutionWriters.com offers affordable, bespoke assistance with essays and projectsLast year, on the 29 th of ...

TORONTO , March 19, 2013 /CNW/ - The Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) is pleased to announce that it is now accepting 2013/2014 Community Leadership in Justice Fellowship applications. These fellowships ...

ECPI University is now authorized to enroll non-immigrant students through the US Department of Homeland Security , Student and Exchange Visitors Program at the followi

The intense routine of a working grad student can be a sun-up to sun-down affair, drowning out any hint of a personal life. "Graduate school really is more of a lifestyle," says Dr. Jane Bost, ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Nine women from across Connecticut were honored for their innovation and leadership during the ninth annual Women of Innovation awards dinner held March 19 at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington....

VANCOUVER , March 19, 2013 /CNW/ - The London School of Business & Finance (LSBF) and the British Columbia Institute of Technology School of Business (BCIT) announce their new affiliation, to deliver an ...

Campus Apartments announces a development project with Howard University that will enhance the University’s on-campus housing stock and help to establish a dedicated residential neighborhood for its underclassmen.

BOCA RATON, Fla., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Campus Management Corp., a leading provider of enterprise software products and services for educational institutions, once again proves its ability to ...

Palo Alto University , a private non-profit higher education institution, was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service , the federal agency that engages more than 4 million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and the Social Innovation Fund, and leads President Obama's ...

LONDON, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Romance is a big part of student life.  For a lot of young people, going away to university represents an important opportunity to broaden their horizons, not just ...

California State University plans to spend the projected $125.1 million in extra state funding for the 2013-14 academic year to expand enrollment and online courses, boost employee salaries and pay for ...

NEW YORK, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- There are few things more frustrating to an Internet user than interruptions or slow-downs in service. The complexity of the Internet "backbone," as the ...

Clemson University is expanding the use of its existing workforce management application from Kronos Incorporated across the entire campus and adding next generation Kronos solutions to further control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.

LONDON , ON, March 18, 2013 /CNW/ - Graduate students at the University of Western Ontario are organising a meme and video contest to draw attention to student concerns with the university's Access Copyright ...

Ricardo Romo, president of The University of Texas at San Antonio , received the prestigious 2013 Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education from the U

San Diego State University announced today that Professional Woman’s Magazine named SDSU’s College of Business Administration among the Top MBA Schools and named the univers

A proposed boost in the state's higher education funding is an encouraging step after more than $150 million was cut during the recession, Indiana University's president said Thursday.IU President Michael ...

Work being done in Kettering University’s Research in Engineering and Collaborative Haptics Lab, along with a thriving local medical community, have created many opportunit

U.S. News & World Report released its annual ranking of graduate schools this week, naming more than a dozen San Diego State University graduate programs among the nation’s bes

PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Carnegie Mellon University student-run teams will host the first picoCTF, a computer security competition running April 26 to May 6 that challenges high school ...

PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University is bolstering its leadership in turning university research and ideas into commercial enterprises by establishing the Carnegie Mellon ...

About 20 student leaders at Iowa's state universities lobbied lawmakers Wednesday, imploring them to approve a tuition freeze backed by the Board of Regents.Students from all three universities met with ...

The Council of Graduate Schools , the only national association of universities devoted to graduate education and research, and TIAA-CREF, a leading financial services provider, today rolled out the first phase of a three-year best practice program designed to improve the financial acumen of graduate and undergraduate students, including debt management skills.

California would allow private, online education companies to offer courses for credit at state colleges and universities, under a bill introduced Wednesday in the state Legislature.Senate President Pro ...

Harvard Business School will host an executive education program, Driving Performance Through Talent Management , from May 5–10, 2013 on the HBS campus.

FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. college tuition rates are skyrocketing, and students are drowning in the all-time-high rising costs. Since 1978 there has been an unbelievable 812 ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Princeton Review has announced their "Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2013," ranking The Art Institute of Vancouver, ...

U.S. News & World Report magazine has ranked Santa Clara University School of Law’s intellectual-property law program the third-best in the country, as classified by faculty at peer institutions in the United States.

PHOENIX, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Canyon University (GCU) is offering scholarships as high as $6,000 per year for out-of-state students transferring from community colleges and other post-secondary ...

As tuition costs keep rising.

Located in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, the Foundry provides workshops that aim to "inspire and motivate kids about the fun of building" by teaching the engineering concepts behind how robots move and work.

PITTSBURGH, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers are scheduled to visit Capitol Hill March 13 to encourage U.S. regional and state officials to establish a government-university- ...

A graduate degree can be the ticket to a six-figure salary for some students, but leave others drowning in debt. Several factors determine which camp a grad student will fall into, including degree choice, ...

Here's some good news for prospective MBAs: Ninety-two percent of 2012 grads surveyed by the Graduate Management Admission Council had a job three months after graduation, a track record 6 percentage points ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A state-of-the-art computing center by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall , ...

LEESBURG, Va., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (Campus SaVE Act) recently signed into law represents the most sweeping reform of federal guidelines in two decades ...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report released today the Best Graduate Schools 2014 rankings online. Highlights of the rankings will be published in the Best Graduate Schools ...

You’re interviewing for a student job in a bank. Which questions will you be asked and how can you prepare? Click the links below to see the questions students said they were asked by the banks listed ...

Echo360, the global leader in campus-wide active and distance learning solutions, is announcing a product release that provides analytics for student activity before, during and after class. Data-rich ...

LOS ANGELES, March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Two years after Jeopardy!, IBM (NYSE: IBM ) is putting Watson to work in ways that will forever change how business and healthcare leaders solve problems.  While ...

Open educational resources have huge potential to both reduce costs and improve student success, according to Lumen Learning founders Dr. David Wiley, a longtime open education advocate and Shuttleworth Fellow, and education technology strategist Kim Thanos.

Southwest Research Institute and the University of New Hampshire have signed a research collaboration agreement enabling the organizations to augment their areas of expertise and seek opportunities in astrophysics, Earth and ocean science, and larger and more complex space science missions.

NEWTON, Mass., March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mount Ida College is pleased to announce that it is undertaking a major facility development and improvement plan, including restoration of century-old Shaw ...

NEW YORK, March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Vesper Holdings ("Vesper"), a privately-held real estate investment firm based in New York City, is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Forum ...

In some parts of the country, the gender pay gap is far more severe.

Post University Associate Faculty member Patrice E. Farquharson, Ph.D., has been selected as the recipient of the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education’s Alumni Society Outstanding Higher Education Professional award for 2013.

The latest figures from Student Job Search show that tough times are getting tougher for Otago University students looking for part time work while they study. Enrolments are up 24 percent from 2012 at ...

Arizona State University has approved the Summer 2013 launch of the ASU Alumni Law Group, a teaching law firm that will hire and mentor recent graduates of the Sandra Day O’Connor

A refusal by the country’s eight universities to agree a fairer annual licence fee, allowing lecturers to copy authors work for their students, has left the non profit organisation that protects and licenses ...

Largest Individual Gift Received by the UniversityVANCOUVER , March 7, 2013 /CNW/ - Michael Audain's $5-million gift to Emily Carr , through the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts, will create an enhanced ...

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