Ambow Education purchased Bay State College in 2017 and the NewSchool of Architecture & Design in 2020. Now critics say both institutions are in shambles. Read more

With no government or accrediting oversight or even awareness of academic misconduct, schools have been left on their own to try to deter it, detect it and deal with it when it happens – which is pretty nearly always. Some do it well. Others don’t do it at all. Read more

Brooklyn College in New York City scheduled an 'implicit bias training' for staff on October 5, ignoring the fact that it fell on the most holy Jewish Holiday. Read more

Teaching and classroom assistants (TAs) working in mainstream schools in the UK have described being kicked, punched and spat at by pupils in a new study that explores for the first time aggression targeted at support staff, who are predominantly female and low-paid. Read more

Penn State University says Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes spouts “hateful and discriminatory” rhetoric — but the school also says a student group has the right to bring McInnes to speak on campus this month, at an event paid for with thousands of dollars in student fees. Read more

The number of young people ages 18 to 24 who are neither in college nor working “surged by about 1 million” over two years, from 2019 to 2021, according to an extensive analysis report from Newsweek. Read more

Institutions are eager to see this fall’s enrollment numbers as they prepare to strategize for a post-pandemic landscape. The data are scattered, but some trends are starting to emerge. Read more

Survey of more than 12,000 students and recent graduates finds a quarter say they do not have any friends at university Read more

A professor fired by New York University after students said his class was too difficult told The College Fix that students are not trying as hard, even as exams have become easier than before. Read more

New Zealand’s arts council has pulled funding for a Shakespeare festival that has been running in secondary schools for roughly three decades, after questioning its relevance to the country and because it focuses on “a canon of imperialism”. Read more