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From University World News: “According to the Ukrainian government, 76,548 international students from 155 nations are enrolled at the country’s universities, drawn by low tuition… Read More

From TechCrunch: “Silicon Valley loves to celebrate the cult of the dropout — the inspired entrepreneur who decides that traditional education isn’t for her because… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Amazon announced … that its employees will have tuition covered at the College of Lake County, and at more… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “The University of Texas System is piloting a program to insert workplace skills valued by employers into the four-year curriculum, in… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “Lawmakers in half of US states are pursuing measures to restrict college-level teaching about race and other sensitive subject areas, and… Read More

From EdSurge: “During the global crisis, 1.6 billion young people in 161 countries were not in college. Shockingly, without internet access, COVID-19 locked out close… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Education credentials earned online have been gaining credibility among employers for the past decade, but when the pandemic forced… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “A further freeze of the undergraduate fee cap is likely to ‘exacerbate’ incentives that may already be leading English universities to… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “About 70 per cent of new undergraduates at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge came from state schools in the past… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “In his last political act of 2021, Joe Biden announced he would again extend a two-year freeze on federal student loan… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Some of higher education’s worst scandals take place in clear sight and aren’t perpetrated by shady, sleazy for-profits but by some… Read More

From U.S. Department of Education: “Nearly 16,000 borrowers will receive $415 million in borrower defense to repayment discharges following the approval of four new findings… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “After years of inflexible debt-collection practices that have burdened SUNY students with punitive payment schedules, high interest and crippling collection fees,… Read More

From EdSurge: “Perhaps the biggest recent example that transcripts are moving toward a refresh came a couple weeks ago, when publishing giant Pearson’s bought Credly,… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Thousands of institutions leave students even worse off than if they hadn’t enrolled in the first place. At nearly… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “College and university endowments posted sky-high returns in fiscal year 2021, with endowments of all sizes growing by at least 20… Read More

From University World News: “Aspirant Afghan scholars are devastated by news that the United States is scrapping its hallmark Fulbright university scholarship programme for Afghanistan… Read More

From Diverse Issues in Higher Education: “Ever since the first historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were built on U.S. soil, threats of white violence… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “Running a university course on positive psychology during the pandemic appeared to have a ‘protective effect’ on first-year students’ mental well-being,… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “The Westminster government appears to have abandoned plans to make students apply to English universities after receiving their exam results, several… Read More

From World Economic Forum:  “1. Learning from everywhere … So rather than shifting to a ‘learn from anywhere’ approach (providing flexibility), education institutions should move… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “Of the 2.6 million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percent, or roughly 679,000, didn’t come back the next… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Legislators in Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, New York and South Carolina are this session looking at potential policies that would require… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Students walk to and from classes with books in hand. Some stand around the yard, discussing philosophical concepts from their latest… Read More