White House detailed policy change in filing asking court to suspend appeal by group opposed to affirmative actionThe US Naval Academy has changed its policy and will no longer consider race as a factor when evaluating candidates to attend the elite military school, a practice it maintained even […]

State department shares new standard for denials based on social media posts, financial donations and membershipsThe United States has ordered consular offices to significantly expand their screening processes for student visa applicants, including through comprehensive social media investigations, […]

Concerns grow as university becomes latest to capitulate to Trump’s anti-DEI demandsFollow US politics liveThe University of Michigan has shuttered its flagship diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program and closed its corresponding office, becoming the latest university to capitulate to […]

Vice-chancellor Sasha Roseneil accuses Office for Students of seeking to ‘persecute’ rather than solve problemsThe University of Sussex is taking legal action to overturn a record fine levied by England’s higher education regulator, accusing the regulator of seeking to “persecute” it […]

Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of […]

Universities UK says ruling raises concerns about how to prevent harassment and hate speech on campusA landmark freedom of speech ruling against the University of Sussex that resulted in a fine in excess of half a million pounds has prompted fears other institutions could face investigation and […]

Regulator accused of ‘perpetuating culture wars’ after case of Kathleen Stock, who faced protests for views on genderEngland’s university regulator has been accused of “perpetuating the culture wars” after fining the University of Sussex a record £585,000 at the conclusion of an […]

A new study contradicts received wisdom about underachieving boys. But concerns backed up by evidence should be addressedNew research showing that boys in English schools outperformed girls in maths and science tests offers a corrective to a narrative emphasising the extent to which boys have […]

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruitedLaced with terms such as “censorship” and “political interference”, the Belgium-based jobs advert was far from typical. The promise of academic freedom, however, hinted at who it was […]

Whether forged in neighbourhoods, clubs or universities, cross-class links can boost social mobility and break down dividesSocial capital is a key concept in the social sciences and – even though most people don’t use the term – also in common sense. Who you know matters in all sorts of ways. […]

Mass firings spark concern as department employees say cuts set stage for widespread fraud and abuseHundreds of firings inside the federal government’s student aid department have sparked concern among workers and student loan advocates, who warn that the student loan system is at risk.Linda […]

As measles sickens hundreds and health secretary RFK Jr spreads dubious information, experts sound the alarmAs vaccine hesitancy increases in the US, isolated, tight-knit and religious communities have frequently been at the center of high-profile outbreaks.Such is the case in west Texas, where a […]

Poll finds up to 48% of voters believe Scottish students who can afford it should pay, with 29% opposedScottish voters are divided over Scotland’s policy of free tuition for Scottish students as the crisis over university finances intensified.A poll commissioned by the Carnegie Trust for the […]

The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want outIn six weeks, the Trump administration’s “rapid scheduled disassembly” of American science has been as sharp and deep as its trashing of the US’s alliances and […]

John Butcher and Karen Ahmed respond to Susanna Rustin’s article on the vocational qualificationI am grateful to Susanna Rustin for her trenchant analysis of government failure to tackle the post-16 academic/vocational divide (T-levels are a disaster – and young people are suffering because […]

Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and againSince early 2024, I’ve been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University.So perhaps it’s no surprise that I see the university’s capitulation to Trump both in terms […]

Ivy League school is latest US university to make step with aim to make it affordable to ‘more students than ever’Harvard University is offering free tuition to more students, the Ivy League school announced on Monday, joining a growing number of higher education institutions in the US to take […]

They were supposed to boost vocational learning, but they’re not popular with students and the dropout rate is high. Time for a dose of realismWhat’s in a name? With T-levels, quite a lot. By choosing a title that sounded a lot like A-levels – with T for technical – the reformers behind […]

Home Office told Manikarnika Dutta to quit Britain for spending too many days abroad for studyA high-achieving academic has been threatened with deportation from the UK because the Home Office says she has spent too many days conducting her research requiring access to historic Indian archives […]

College president says she is ‘heartbroken’ by latest escalation in Trump attack on US campusesNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Agents from the Department of Homeland Security conducted searches in two Columbia University […]