Civil rights complaints against initiatives for women in male-dominated STEM fields are piling up. But it’s not clear that such programs are actually illegal. Read more

The graduating class of 2023 has continued a six-year decline in ACT scores, and all 50 states’ average composite score makes it a thirty-year low, according to new data released by the testing giant. Read more

Amid concerns about value for money and the supposed liberal bias of certain humanities and social science subjects, conservative politicians are increasingly intervening in curricular decisions. Read more

More than £3,000 raised to keep the Student – founded in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh University – going Read more

Stanford University academics can now testify in a November trial relating to COVID remote learning loss, particularly for racial minorities and low-income families, after California officials dropped their sanctions. Read more

Hospital and school caterers are not doing enough to stop farmers from overusing antibiotics in their animals, according to campaign groups. Read more

Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but the Kansas university’s head-count troubles have worsened. Might other institutions following its example see a similar fate? Read more

Classes at Bowie State University have been canceled for the rest of the week in the wake of last weekend’s shooting that injured two 19-year-olds during homecoming festivities. Read more

Animated by both left and right, operations’ right to label themselves ‘university’ or ‘college’ amplify a regulatory danger for US higher education Read more

‘Maths is the language of the universe’ says shadow education secretary, promising ‘real world’ numeracy lessons Read more