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Hundreds of students accepted on courses facing costs and even deportation after being told to defer studies until 2026
Hundreds of international students accepted on courses by University College London have been left in limbo and facing thousands of pounds in costs, after the university admitted it had run out of places just days before many were due to start.
About 200 students from China...
Trump is known for saying a lot of things that he can’t or won’t back up. This time, the threats are real.
Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus on the disorder has opened the way for them to argue their cause.
Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025
A global academic freedom group has warned that the Trump administration’s assault on universities is turning the US into a “model for how to dismantle” academic freedom.
“We are witnessing an unprecedented situation – really as far as I can tell in history – where a global...
The authorities in Toyoake, Japan, introduced a rule limiting the use of digital devices to two hours per day outside of work and school. Some residents say it is an overreach.
US president says ‘Linda is finishing up the details’ but not clear whether university ready to announce agreement
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration had reached a deal with Harvard and that the school would pay $500m to settle the dispute between the federal government and the university.
“Linda is finishing up the final details,” Trump told reporters at an event in the...
The agreement, if finalized, would follow months of public acrimony as the school grappled with losing billions in federal dollars as a result of defying President Trump.
In a blistering opinion, a federal judge in Boston said the Trump administration used the threat of deportations to systematically intimidate certain campus demonstrators into silence.
A lawyer for Ian Roberts, superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, announced that Dr. Roberts would step down.
The Sept. 19 letter came days before the Department of Health and Human Services started the process of cutting off federal funds to the university.
Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do.
In 1957, facing down white mobs, he became the first Black student to graduate from a public high school in the South under a court mandate.
Sir Keir Starmer says the Blair-era ambition of seeing half of young people in university is not “right for our times”.
The PM’s challenge it to make vocational options as attractive to parents and young people as higher eduction
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Keir Starmer has joined a long line of ministers and prime ministers who have called time on Tony Blair’s ambition for half of the nation’s young people to go on to higher education.
Rishi Sunak, Gavin Williamson and now Starmer have all declared an end...
Readers respond to an editorial about President Trump’s troubling use of executive power in the Venezuelan boat strikes. Also: Social Security woes; the importance of Black colleges.
It wasn’t quite what I was expecting from my daughter’s A-level geography class, but I had plenty of ideas
If you happen to have children of an age to willingly study geography, you’ll know that it’s the topic with all the best field trips. They’re constantly going somewhere. That place is rarely cool to begin with, and they zone in on the least cool thing about it, so if they go to the...
The study found pupils who are struggling academically are more likely to see self harm content online.
Immigration officials arrested Ian Roberts, the Des Moines Public Schools superintendent, on Friday and said he was in the country illegally.
The White House and Harvard University have struggled to negotiate an end to their monthslong dispute over the administration’s campaign to expunge “woke” ideology from campuses.
Ian Roberts was superintendent of Des Moines public schools, the largest school district in the state
The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district has had his education license revoked by state education officials following his arrest last week by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents.
Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines public schools (DMPS), was detained by Ice...
Inquiry hears of children exposed to pornography and suffering ‘grievous’ harm without protection of schools
The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact on children and young people.
Clair Dobbin KC, counsel to the inquiry, said in her opening submission on Monday that some of the evidence...