Skills-based hiring and the short-term certificates touted to help students gain industry experience and professionalism have gained a lot of momentum at the start of the new decade. Read more

Celebrities including Piers Morgan, Nigella Lawson and Oprah Winfrey have criticised the use of AI deepfake online adverts that gave the false impression they had endorsed a US influencer's controversial self-help course. Read more

The cancellation of an art exhibit and other recent moves by university leaders have turned the campus into a free speech battleground. Read more

Office for Students reviewing courses by subcontractors amid concerns of potential loan abuse and poor education standards Read more

Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles who is a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement and once argued Jussie Smollet was framed, recently stated she thinks Taylor Swift fans are kinda racist. Read more

Yale University will require standardized test scores for admission for students applying to enter in the fall of 2025, becoming the second Ivy League university to abandon test-optional policies that had been widely embraced during the Covid pandemic. Read more

Google has had to publicly state Gmail is "here to stay" after a hoax claiming it was shutting down spread widely on social media. Read more

Breaking out of sci-fi movies and into the classroom, holograms are becoming the latest high-tech teaching tool. Read more

It's extremely rare and usually exists for just 142 billionths of a second. Read more

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. The fix? It’s scraping an entire year off a student’s academic calendar with its Degree in Three programs. Read more