The government is to push ahead with controversial changes to languages teaching in schools, which would see pupils in England memorising lists of 1,700 words to pass GCSEs in Spanish, French or German. Read more

Jimmy Donaldson, the 23-year-old American better known as MrBeast, was YouTube's highest-earning content creator in 2021, according to Forbes. Read more

Part performance, part protest, a professor’s video got him suspended from Ferris State University. He didn’t want to teach in person in the first place due to COVID-19, and he says he’s retiring. His union says the suspension is an attack on academic freedom. Read more

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into its third year, William Paterson University is now laying off 100 full-time faculty over the next three years. Read more

In an analysis article for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Megan Squire and Michael Edison Hayden note various alleged 'white nationalists' who were early adopters of Bitcoin. Read more

DePaul University, the largest Catholic university in the United States, now offers students nine different gender identity options within its Campus Connect platform. Read more

James Whitfield, PhD, shared a heartfelt letter to students following George Floyd’s death. Then, he was disciplined and placed on leave Read more

Nearly one million fewer students have enrolled in higher education since the beginning of the pandemic. The losses have been felt across all types of institutions and in almost every state. Read more

Multiple copycat versions of the hugely popular word game Wordle have been removed from the App Store, Apple has confirmed to BBC News. Read more

The University of Memphis has scrapped plans for a social-justice program that would have paid some professors $3,000 to add critical race theory principles to their curricula, according to a new report. Read more