Apple has announced a new security feature to protect high-risk users from spyware cyber-attacks. Read more

Includes increases to the Pell Grant and other student aid, increased accountability for for-profits, Read more

The U.S. Education Department on Wednesday proposed new regulations intended to help student-loan borrowers whose colleges misled them or closed, who are permanently disabled, or who work in public service, including nontenured college instructors. Read more

New York’s deputy commissioner for higher education dealt a new blow to Olivet University late last month by forcing it to stop academic operations in the state, citing the college’s “pattern of mismanagement of the institution’s finances” and “a well-established pattern of noncompliance with laws, rules, and regulations,” according to a letter to the college from the state’s Education Department. Read more

Student-run debate organizations at Northeastern University and Boston College co-hosted the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s (APDA) “inaugural BIPOC tournament” and explicitly prohibited white students from competing. Read more

Universities may regularly commit student visa fraud but there is minimal oversight according to a former immigration official. Read more

Environmental groups are suing Dutch airline KLM, alleging that adverts promoting the company's sustainability initiative are misleading. Read more

The Department of Education is hoping colleges can aid in initiative to combat learning loss, address mental health. Read more

Large increases to the Pell Grant proposed by President Biden did not pan out in the House. A more modest increase was proposed instead. Read more

The Ministry of Education has approved the establishment of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), the third cooperatively-run higher education institution between the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Read more