Income-based tuition guarantees are on the rise, with many universities saying they aim to make their already-generous financial aid policies as explicit as possible. Read more

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study. Read more

One Monday evening this month, around five George Washington University police officers stood outside the university’s international-affairs school, while two sat inside, making sure nobody entered without scanning their student IDs. Read more

Government ambition to quickly develop up to five elite institutions could end up taking decades, warn experts Read more

More than 6,000 foreign students have lost their visa under the Trump administration, according to State Department data – and several commentators praised the federal government for pulling permission. Read more

In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "dog" in Russian, "strudel" in Hebrew and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is a mirror, and its story goes back thousands of years. Read more

While U.S. colleges and universities overall have entered a predicted and protracted period of enrollment decline, religious and faith-based schools generally continue decades of growth. More than 850 FBCUs are home to about 1.8 million students. Read more

Base pay, bonuses, and benefits for 180 chief executives at public doctoral universities and systems in 2024. Read more

A decades-old arm of the Health and Human Services Department is now helping to wage Trump’s crusade against alleged antisemitism, special benefits for minorities and transgender women participating in women’s sports. Read more

New modelling estimates that controversial proposals could wipe about £2.2 billion from the UK economy in just five years Read more