Tokyo could use figures to justify more heavy-handed sector intervention, academics say Read more

Much of the noise being made by Republicans is political at heart. But right-leaning think tanks — and even some policymakers — are focused on making colleges more accountable for students’ economic outcomes. Read more

To restore Americans’ low confidence in higher education, colleges should dismantle the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracies and showcase their potential to transform students’ lives, one contrarian political scientist argued in the wake of a poll that found the nation’s confidence in higher ed has plummeted. Read more

A pair of rare Apple trainers are being sold by auction house Sotheby's for $50,000 (£38,969). Read more

Google’s decision to limit free storage for universities has kicked off a scramble to preserve lifetime email or manage the fallout. Read more

Twenty-nine people suspected of providing fake registration information for students taking the high school entrance exam in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, in June have been arrested, and 11 have been criminally detained. Read more

A university has come under fire for proposing to make the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK redundant and cut the course he runs. Read more

A former leftist prosecutor in San Francisco who lost a recall election as district attorney due to voter dissatisfaction with his soft-on-crime policies is going to be paid $210,000 per year in his new job at the University of California Berkeley. Read more

Scientists say they have completed the world's largest release of seahorses into Sydney Harbour to boost population numbers. Read more

A state appeals court has unanimously ruled that the University of Michigan is within its rights to ban weapons on campus, The Detroit Free Press reported. Read more