Students in England will have to pay back university loans over 40 years instead of 30 under swingeing reforms designed to save the Treasury tens of billions of pounds. Read more

Student success coaches contacted 27,000 students who dropped out at 25 colleges and universities. The coaches re-enrolled 3,000 students this academic year. Read more

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled several ambitious artificial-intelligence projects, describing AI as "the key to unlocking the Metaverse". Read more

NAFSA honors one community college, one public university and three private institutions for their impact on global learning. Read more

Harvey Mudd College, long recognized as one of the premier STEM colleges in California, if not the United States, has been the subject of growing criticism from some alumni claiming the private institution, fueled by a relatively new commitment to woke ideology, has sacrificed high standards and a rigorous curriculum for fashionably equitable outcomes in admissions and graduations. Read more

The Georgia Senate is on track to consider a bill that would require athletes to compete according to their biological sex. Read more

A new report from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education found that multiple high-ranking liberal arts colleges saw increases in first-year Black student enrollment. However, some experts say challenges still remain. Read more

I repaid my student loan early, but the Student Loans Company (SLC) is still deducting repayments – £1,089 over two months – from my earnings. The problem began when SLC assigned my final, lump‑sum payment to the wrong account. Its systems therefore show me as owing £12,000. It has admitted an error, but can’t say when I’ll be refunded. Read more

A Georgia high school senior has been accepted to 48 colleges and offered $600,000 in scholarships. Read more

Some 82% of British firms which have been victims of ransomware attacks paid the hackers in order to get back their data, a new report suggests. Read more