As the Trump administration has issued a volley of executive orders and policy directives aimed at higher education over the past two months, the sector’s fight back has been led not by individual institutions — like often happened during his first term — but by its acronym-heavy associations. Read more

Fashion retailer H&M is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create digital "twins" of 30 models. Read more

Some foreign Fulbright students are still waiting to hear about their visas for next academic year while applicants remain in the dark about their status. Read more

Melanie Woodin will succeed Meric Gertler, who has led Canada’s largest university for more than a decade, on 1 July Read more

A new novel-writing competition with the theme “America 2076” hopes to inspire new talent, particularly students, to write the next great American work of fiction. Read more

Legal scholars on what Columbia University should have done — and what other colleges could do next. Read more

On Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting a Columbia student who moved to the U.S. when she was 7. Read more

People will be far more open-minded than you realise if you adopt these simple conversational techniques. Read more

American colleges and universities have received close to $60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts over a decades-long span, according to a new watchdog report. Read more

Expensive pensions schemes among issues highlighted as institutions look for ways out of current turmoil Read more