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From Times Higher Education: “The UK’s most selective universities boasted record intakes as A-level results were released, with students on oversubscribed medical courses being offered… Read More

From Bloomberg: “Chinese applications to U.K. universities now outstrip the total number of would-be students from the European Union, highlighting the impact of Brexit and… Read More

From McKinsey: “HBCUs confer 17 percent of all bachelor’s degrees awarded to Black students in the United States, have boosted their students into higher-income quintiles… Read More

From Washington Post: “Maryland’s four HBCUs, for example, will receive $577 million over a decade, after the state recently settled a 15-year court battle over… Read More

From The Chronicle: “…What distinguished the 23 institutions Scott chose from the other 78 accredited HBCUs that she didn’t? … A study led by a… Read More

From Diverse Education: “One million Black-owned businesses by 2030. That’s the ambitious goal set by John Hope Bryant in October 2020. … Now, in his… Read More

From CNN: “More than 20 historically Black colleges and universities have made headlines for clearing student debt using funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “It looks like this year will be another in which testing may not be part of the admissions process, at least… Read More

From The Chronicle: “Nearly 7 percent of college students who participated in a national survey said they had been ‘sick with Covid’ during or since… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “… The two publicly traded companies both valued in the billions, describe themselves as ‘lifelong learning platforms’… and the main question… Read More

From CNBC: “More than 9.5 million Americans were unemployed and looking for work in June, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. At… Read More

From Higher Ed Dive: “Of students who started at community colleges the year before the 2008 Great Recession, 33% transferred to four-year universities … Our… Read More

From The PIE: “Successful bids to the UK’s new outbound mobility program, the Turing Scheme, will allow 40,000 UK university and school students to study… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “A new report from the Brookings Institution calls for federal funding of ‘anchor institutions’ to help sustain them and allow them… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “English higher education institutions should be split into ‘national’ and ‘local’ universities to give them a ‘clearly defined purpose’, a thinktank… Read More

From The Chronicle: “The Biden administration is calling for a unified national approach to international education, saying it is time for a ‘renewed U.S. commitment’… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “Australia is pioneering the stacking of microcredentials into more illustrious qualifications as the pandemic injects urgency in the roll-out of lifelong… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “Indian education agents are lobbying for the creation of home-grown language tests to facilitate international study amid frustration that a country… Read More

From Workshift: “Even before the pandemic, schools and childcare centers were struggling to fill those roles due to strict training and licensing requirements, the demands… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Three-quarters of respondents to Inside Higher Ed‘s 2021 Survey of College and University Business Officers, conducted this month (July) with Hanover… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “ ‘We’re trying to create an environment where it’s OK to change your mind, and it’s OK to not know what… Read More

From Forbes: “The retail behemoth announced that it will pay 100% of tuition and books for its 1.5 million part-time and full-time Walmart and Sam’s… Read More

From The Chronicle: “A slew of colleges and universities are using Covid-19 relief funding from the federal government to clear unpaid student balances incurred during… Read More

From Inside Higher Education: “As the amount of student loan debt held by Americans continues to rise, the difficulty borrowers face in getting relief, even… Read More