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From WSJ Podcast: “The pandemic forced many colleges to make standardized entrance exams like the SAT optional. Now, a lot of them are choosing to… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “When Louise Richardson announced last November that she will step down as University of Oxford vice-chancellor at the end of this… Read More

From NPR: “Starting in 2023 for international students and in 2024 in the U.S., the new digital SAT will shrink from three hours to two,… Read More

From University World News: “Many hoped border restrictions would be eased by February as Beijing holds the Winter Olympic Games beginning on 4 February. …… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “In a fresh upset to international students hoping to enter Japan, government officials said the country will let in only 87… Read More

From University World News: “One may have hoped that, while handling the return of hundreds of international students from multiple countries may have been complex,… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Female senior faculty and top administrators earn more at institutions with female presidents and provosts than at institutions where men are… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “In an Educause Quick Poll from June 2021, 36 percent of IT professionals who responded said chatbots and digital… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “In October, Madison Byrdie checked her financial-aid statement and noticed something had changed. A $1,500 credit had been applied… Read More

From Forbes: “Author and strategist Elliot Felix believes that students would get more out of college and find it more valuable to their overall life… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “Some UK universities have seen a complete collapse of undergraduate recruitment from the European Union, according to the first set of… Read More

From The Times: “Reform of the education system would give the British economy a £125 billion-a-year boost to profits, according to a study published by… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “Following the Great Recession of 2008, college students turned away from the humanities, as expected. … But this time, college students… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “England’s sector regulator plans to require that 60 per cent of full-time first degree students at every university should go into… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “The free market is efficient at determining which programs are most effective and which programs should be targeted for obsolescence. In… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “The US Supreme Court, as had been long expected, will use its expanded conservative majority to reassess race-based affirmative action policies… Read More

From NPR: “‘It’s a crisis,’ says Gerri Taylor, co-leader of the COVID Task Force for the American College Health Association. … ‘In trying to isolate… Read More

From The Hill: “But Pell Grants have failed to keep pace with cost increases. Around the time Sen. Pell’s colleagues honored him, the grants covered… Read More

From Dark Reading: “Within the cybersecurity industry, the prevailing mindset is that security practitioners are professionals. Thus, a direct consequence of this mindset is that… Read More

From The Hill: “When it comes to student loans, President Biden is acting like Lucy removing the football just as naïve Charlie Brown is persuaded… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Janet Godwin, CEO of ACT, said that while she prefers that colleges require tests, ‘I’m not surprised by the test-optional movement…. Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “In June, the University of California, Berkeley, auctioned an NFT based on the Nobel Prize–winning research of immunologist James Allison, who… Read More

From EdSurge: “In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an ‘exit’ event. Coursera went public, while edX was acquired by the public company… Read More

From University Business: “While others have slumped through the pandemic, Western Governors has grown enrollment and continued to innovate. A month ago, Western Governors University… Read More