Facebook's owner, Meta, has been fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling people's data when transferring it between Europe and the United States. Read more

A group of HBCUs is participating in a nationwide effort to bring college coursework to low-income high school students. Read more

The Federal Government has blocked 100 cheating websites under a sweeping crackdown on academic misconduct in higher education Read more

Flagship programme that places graduates in local schools to teach faces uncertain future as participation dwindles Read more

Colleges may want to cut back on early class offerings, according to research findings that “suggest concerning associations between early morning classes and learning outcomes.” Read more

Asking college applicants about their criminal history can have mixed results for colleges looking to reduce racial bias, experts say. Read more

Our overheating world is likely to break a key temperature limit for the first time over the next few years, scientists predict. Read more

Calls to transform the European Union’s research repository into a “collective, non-profit, large-scale publishing service for the public good” that could rival commercial publishers have been described as “naïve” and a distraction to the open-access mission by experts. Read more

In an April 28 post on "Homeroom," the official blog of the Department of Education (ED), ED called on schools to remove the criminal background question from admissions. Read more

England’s higher education regulator has warned universities against over-reliance on tuition fees of students from China, as Rishi Sunak backtracked on his earlier pledge to close UK branches of the Beijing-sponsored Confucius Institute. Read more