Cambridge University to offer free foundation year for disadvantaged pupils
Up to 50 A-level pupils who miss out on top grades will be offered place on scheme, launching in October 2022
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Are Colleges Superspreaders?
New peer-reviewed analysis suggests that colleges opening in the fall may have led to increased COVID-19 cases in their home counties.
UMich regent faces calls to resign…even after denouncing Capitol violence
Thousands of University of Michigan community members called for the resignation or recall of Ron Weiser — a member of the school’s Board of Regents — for allegedly inciting the Capitol Building attack.
Is this the world’s smartest face mask?
Gaming company Razer has made what they claim is world's smartest face mask - complete with a built-in microphone.
Colleges are under pressure to hold accountable those who sought to overturn election
At Harvard University’s Kennedy School, more than a 1,000 students, alumni, and staff are urging administrators to cut ties with US Representative Elise Stefanik – an adviser for the school’s Institute of Politics – because of the New York Republican’s role in trying to overturn the election results even after a mob attacked the Capitol.
First Amendment experts say university officials use COVID as excuse to stifle free speech
Predictions of discrimination against conservatives came true
Education relations with UK move ahead
Growth path for tertiary initiatives with China holds firm in pandemic
Medical profs argue against sex designation on birth certificates
Three professors argued that birth certificate sex designations should be reconsidered because of “ harmful effects... on intersex and transgender people.”
Dept. of Ed Says Title IX Does Not Apply to LGBTQ Discrimination
The United States Department of Education’s Office of the General Counsel published a memorandum on Friday that states that LGBTQ students are not expressly included in protections under Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination at federally funded institutions.
Harvard dumps Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik from political science advisory board
Claiming she had made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election “that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf today announced Rep. Elise Stefanik would be removed from a school political science advisory board.
