Languages and the creative arts are falling out of favour among GCSE and A-level students, who are increasingly opting for more vocational subjects such as computing and business studies. Read more

Cal State Long Beach’s spring commencement ceremonies did not include a rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” among its festivities, recordings of each ceremony show. Read more

The state of Virginia is set to make a big change in a hiring practice by eliminating the requirement or preference that applicants for many executive branch jobs have a higher-education degree. Read more

Turnitin’s AI writing–detection tool has a higher false positive rate than the company originally asserted, according to Annie Chechitelli, the company’s chief product officer. Read more

Makers of GRE seek to revamp standardised test after universities raise concerns over diversity and value Read more

When a reader recently asked me to look at how many teachers were leaving the occupation, I assumed the numbers would be high. Between wage stagnation and the near impossible working conditions during the height of Covid, I guessed that the outlook for US teaching jobs would be bleak. Read more

More high-school graduates are being diverted from college campuses by brighter prospects for blue-collar jobs in a historically strong labor market for less-educated workers. Read more

Graduate student employees striking at the University of Michigan falsely claimed that the university pressured them into falsifying incomplete student grades, according to the school’s media team. Read more

When Robert Chirwa, a computer science professor at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, found out he’d won a Fulbright award, he felt “ecstatic.” Read more

A 167-year-old village primary school in North Yorkshire with just one pupil is to be closed, with opponents of the move claiming it has been the victim of a “managed wind-down”. Read more