Record number of school leavers in England snap up university places
Number of students accepting a place outstrips last year, with some taking up gaps left by fall in EU applications Read more
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Instagram launches ‘limits’ to hide abusive messages
Instagram has announced new features designed to restrict abusive messages during "sudden spikes". Read more
Students at Utah universities priced out of housing
Property manager Derek Morton calls his local housing market in Cedar City, Utah, “Insanity.” Read more
Physics professor: ‘Chance of life originating on its own by natural processes is zero’
Physicist Eric Hedin was canceled before the term cancel culture was even coined. Read more
‘We’ve had to adapt’: A-level students react to record-breaking results
With sixth formers having to juggle challenges of studying amid pandemic, we asked how they coped Read more
Fake COVID-19 vaccine cards online worry college officials
As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for students to attend in-person classes. Read more
ASU student government paid communist $15,000 for virtual speech
The Arizona State University student government offered self-proclaimed communist Angela Davis $15,000 for an event that lasted slightly longer than an hour. Read more
Google lets parents remove children from image-search results
Parents will now be able to have images of their children removed from Google search results, the company has said. Read more
California Cracks Down on Amerifed for Loan Repayment Scam
In its latest move to crack down on student loan debt-relief scams, California ordered Amerifed Doc Prep LLC to pay more than $1.37 million for illegally collecting advance fees from consumers looking to reduce or forgive their student loans. Read more
U. Wisconsin-Madison professor vows to fight the patriarchy by refusing to wear a bra
Over the weekend, one University of Wisconsin-Madison professor vowed to strike a blow for a new kind of academic…uh…”freedom.” Read more
