EDUCATION

Parents looking for the best state school system for their housing dollar should concentrate on the northeast section of the country, particularly Massachusetts, according to a new report.

When entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie, didn't just donate some money, he started a company with the goal of putting shoes on the feet of every needy child.

He told ABC Local Brisbane he has spoken with the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, which is a charity to protect children from violence.

As Wall Street eagerly awaits signs that Internet sensation Facebook will offer shares to the public, the venture capitalists that prowl California's Silicon Valley are keeping close tabs on another hot commodity: the employees leaving Facebook.

CHILDREN as young as eight are being coached by private tutors in how to pass the tests that form the basis of performance ratings on the My School website.

The University of Melbourne's faculty of business and economics is to expand further into executive education, potentially treading on the turf of the Melbourne Business School.

Has anyone ever said to you, If there's anything I can do to help you with your business, let me know? And was your response Thank you.

Selling a business comes with a huge number of variables. The following consider 9 important areas you need to work through if you want to successfully exit the business you own.

More than one in seven staff members said they or a colleague had been bullied by children spreading malicious rumours about them on-line, according to research.

If you are looking for a top-notch degree, here are the most prestigious and rewarding ones from around the world.

In the wake of complaints about sudden acceleration problems that have led to the recall of millions of Toyotas over the past few months.

Few small businesses would choose to set up shop in a poorer section of town, but at a time when capital is hard to come by, the financial benefits for inner-city entrepreneurs can be significant.

An Internet startup called Fashion Stake launching in coming weeks aims to shake up the fashion industry, just as peer-to-peer file sharing changed the music industry.

Small and medium-sized business borrowers in the United States showed signs of continued stress in February as the percentage of loans in default stayed at a two-year high, PayNet Inc reported on Thursday.

When was the last time you had a frank discussion about money with your friends? How aggressively did you negotiate your salary last time you got a new job or had a good review?

Most Americans believe tax hikes are OK if you're making more than $250,000, a policy proposed by President Barack Obama, but hands off Medicare and Social Security, a poll released on Monday found.

Bloom Energy's recent high-profile unveiling of a new fuel cell technology has raised the sector's profile, but its perennially loss-making companies need more than visibility to register any short-term gains.

If women ran Wall Street, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's job cleaning up the bloodied financial markets might not be so tough.

The days of Federal subsidies may be gone at Sallie Mae following the Congressional approval to an overhaul of the college student loan program, but it does end the legislative uncertainty at the largest U.S. student loan provider.

Kiran Rai has always had a sarcastic sense of humor, but she never thought it would be the foundation for her own apparel business.

Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world's most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.

Growing up in Ghana, Ashifi Gogo was amazed that he could surf the Internet on his mobile phone from anywhere, but couldn't always get clean tap water to drink. The only state-of-the-art infrastructure we have is our cellphone network,

Lara Lewis used to be a stressed-out single mother whose teaching job left her little time for her young daughter, but now she works from home, selling an estimated $60,000 a year worth of jewelry online.

JimmyJane, a startup that makes vibrating sex toys, raised $2 million from investors, according to a recent regulatory filing.

With Google expected to decide soon whether to close its Chinese search engine, students at one of the schools cited by some reports for being behind hacking attacks on the Internet giant are decidedly ambivalent.

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will be organizing a career fair on March 29.

University of Western Sydney was awarded with an 'Employer of Choice for Women' by The Federal Government's Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA), a citation for the 7th consecutive year.

Australia’s higher education system could become an international example, says expert

taking lessons to the canals of Venice.