A University of Virginia professor denied the legitimacy of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, posting to X that the Saturday shooting was “staged theatrics” performed by Secret Service to garner “idiots' vote”. Read more

First post-pandemic study of attainment gap finds pupils from low-income families have fallen further behind richer peers except in London Read more

A California chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine claimed the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was “staged” and called it a distraction from a recent “massacre” in the Gaza city of Khan Younis. Read more

Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon. Read more

The Yale Law School graduate has used sharp criticism of elite higher ed to help establish his MAGA bona fides and build a national brand. Read more

Rising number of applicants from abroad secure visas but don’t show up at campuses Read more

Experts say the next head of the Office for Students must oversee a programme that will protect higher education Read more

A Christian university in Minnesota made some edits to its “George Floyd Memorial Scholarship,” which is only open to black students. Read more

A federal appeals court on Thursday refused to rule out the possibility of college athletes being considered employees of their schools under minimum-wage law, as the NCAA had requested, but a three-judge panel sent the case back to a lower court for further consideration of the issue. Read more

To get a sense of the public interest in the Vision Pro, Apple's very high-tech, very expensive virtual reality (VR) headset - finally launched in the UK and Europe on Friday - where better to head than one of its own stores? Read more