In a fresh upset to international students hoping to enter Japan, government officials said the country will let in only 87 overseas learners next month.

Visit the University of California at Irvine’s admissions page, and a box pops up in the bottom right corner. Click on it, and there’s Peter the Anteater, a chatbot affectionately named after the university’s mascot, clad in a varsity jacket and grinning. Read more

Two Duke alumni created a “Space Medicine” course that continues to be popular with the university community and the general public. Read more

On Jan. 20, one University of Pittsburgh professor claimed that "anti-Semitism is White supremacy" in reference to the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue taken hostage this month by a man of Pakistani origin. Read more

Administrators at a public university in Utah reopened investigations into several incidents on campus after a student created a social media post that merged two stories into one. Read more

Fifteen months after it was revealed that students could end up leaving school in England without studying a single piece of literature by a Black or minority ethnic author, research has found that teachers are still crying out for more diverse texts on the English syllabus. Read more

Google's "indecision" over what system it wants to replace cookies has been criticised by some in the ad industry. Read more

Raising awareness and aiding young students in navigating a complex system can make them more civically engaged. Read more

A new report finds that a growing majority of students believe their campus climate stifles free expression. But the share who support disinviting controversial speakers has fallen. Read more

The Supreme Court of the United States announced today it would hear two legal challenges to admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Read more