More support needed for disadvantaged students during medical studies to compensate for lack of ‘insider knowledge’ Read more

President Donald Trump’s plan to admit 600,000 Chinese college students over the next two years is a “bad deal” according to foreign policy experts Read more

It was the first week of school at Harvard, and students were posted up at a usual spot in front of the library taking carefree selfies—steps away from a flyer calling for the “Fall of the Trump Fascist Regime.” Upperclassmen fell back into the familiarity of old friends— while freshmen from abroad, many stepping on campus for the first time as students, asked orientation advisers what to do if they encountered immigration agents. Read more

Pensacola State College is the latest Florida institution to sign an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow its campus police department to enforce immigration laws, following the lead of more than a dozen other public institutions across the state. Read more

Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet. Read more

Three of Virginia’s top Democratic senators have accused the head of George Mason University’s Board of Visitors of having an “untenable ethical conflict” by serving as a chief adviser to a conservative foundation that has advocated for cutting off the college’s federal funding for allegedly trying to hide its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Read more

Researcher whose name appeared on letter coordinated by the group Scholars for Truth About Genocide says he has no idea how it got there Read more

Amid an on-going debate about noncitizens’ right to free speech, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration for allegedly violating international students’ rights. Read more

There’s an assumption throughout higher education that adult learners who want to finish their degree will simply return to the institution where they stopped out. Read more

When actress Sorcha Cusack left the BBC drama Father Brown in January, it made headlines, including for the newspapers owned by Reach, among them The Mirror, and the Daily Express. Read more