In the coming hours, the American space agency will crash a probe into an asteroid. Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to extend previous efforts to limit the “influence” from China regarding data access and funding through proposed legislation and a new executive order. Read more

The UK’s social mobility tsar has cast doubt on Liz Truss’s plans to revive grammar schools in England, arguing that they mainly benefit children whose families can afford to coach them to pass entrance exams. Read more

Land of the free market outpaces UK’s muted ‘levelling up’ with funding to leverage power of universities in struggling regions Read more

Over the summer, the University of Florida (UF) College of Education offered a history course titled “History of Education in the U.S." that required students to create a positionality statement on their “personal and educational experiences.” Read more

Asian research powerhouses will introduce open-access mandates within the next “two to three” years, experts have predicted, in the wake of last month’s landmark order by the Biden administration. Read more

Texas A&M University faces a class-action lawsuit that accuses the public institution of creating a program in which scholars of color will be given preferential hiring treatment over white and Asian males. Read more

“We all know that academic pedigree is important—it’s the first thing professors put in their bios—but it’s hard to measure just how extreme the inequalities are in higher education until you actually analyze the data.” Read more

EAB, a major player in marketing and enrollment services for colleges, announced today its acquisition of Concourse, which created an alternative college admissions platform to increase access to higher education. Read more

More than 3.5 million children are at risk of dropping out of school due to the drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has said, amid warnings the crisis could lead to “a lost generation” that misses out on education. Read more