Start-of-year outage affects 120,000 students, faculty and staff at major US institution with top cybersecurity programme Read more

One in four teachers in England brought in food for hungry pupils out of concern for their welfare, a survey has revealed, as headteachers said it was “unsustainable” to expect schools to keep stepping in to support desperate families. Read more

More people need degrees just to keep up with the crowd, analysis of Australian census data suggests Read more

Some of West Virginia University’s proposed program cuts appear unprecedented, or close to it, for an institution of its kind. Department appeals and student protests seem to be having little effect so far. Read more

A hacking group called Anonymous Sudan took X, formerly known as Twitter, offline in more than a dozen countries on Tuesday morning in an attempt to pressurise Elon Musk into launching his Starlink service in their country. Read more

It’s no secret that language study enrollment has been declining for decades—a result of translation software that makes communication easy and the growing worship of U.S. students at the vocational altar of STEM. Read more

US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents Read more

Pupils in parts of England are likely to never have a teacher of the same ethnic background, in part because minority ethnic applicants are less likely to be accepted on to teacher training courses, research has revealed. Read more

Andrew Coats, the lawyer who convinced the U.S. Supreme Court in 1984 to allow universities to maximize football revenue, leading to a television-driven money-grab and today’s sweeping upheaval, now looks back with regret on the landmark case he successfully argued. Read more

Google is trialling a digital watermark to spot images made by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to fight disinformation. Read more