Harvard Rescinds Chelsea Manning’s Fellowship
University acts amid uproar over her selection.
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A year of free tuition for Calif. community college students?
California community college students could get a year of free tuition under a bill sent to the governor on Wednesday.
Fifty-fold growth in English-taught bachelor’s courses in Europe
The number of English-taught bachelor’s programmes being offered by European universities has increased 50-fold in the past eight years, according to a major study.
Kuala Lumpur school fire kills students and teachers
At least 24 students and teachers have died in a fire at a religious school in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The Bermuda Triangle of Credit Transfer
Three reports highlight different ways that changing colleges is difficult. Bottom line (in one expert’s words): transferring students are “abused.”
California lawmakers pledge $30 million for young immigrants
California Gov. Jerry Brown and top lawmakers announced Tuesday that they plan to spend $30 million helping young immigrants with legal services and college financial aid.
Are rising fees bankrolling growth in vice-chancellors’ salaries?
Since Times Higher Education’s latest annual analysis of the pay packages of UK vice-chancellors was published, the focus on leaders’ remuneration has ratcheted up a fair notch or two.
South Africa student fights to keep thesis during robbery
The prospect of losing the only copy of her master's thesis during a robbery was just too much for one South African student to bear.
A Total Prohibition
Ohio University rushed through a policy that bans all indoor protests, but vehement campus criticism may lead to changes.
A university where students could set their own tuition fees
High tuition fees and higher vice-chancellors’ salaries are under attack, but there could be a radical solution.
