WhatsApp says it would rather be blocked in the UK than undermine its encrypted-messaging system, if required to do so under the Online Safety Bill. Read more

What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after returning to in-person classes, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. Read more

Agencies created to help institutions improve themselves, then asked to guard federal student aid, now face fight over battling partisan attacks on academia Read more

The University of Missouri College of Education and Human Development is launching a new program called Preparing Adults for Work and Society, or PAWS, to provide post-secondary education opportunities for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Read more

The administration also wants $90 billion over 10 years to make two years of community college free. Read more

A recent study suggests that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, Americans’ average intelligence quotient (IQ) is declining. Read more

Lengthy government security checks on STEM postgraduates are causing chaos for university research as doctoral candidates go elsewhere, says Russell Group Read more

Popular ticketing platform Eventbrite has refused to provide ticketing services for multiple conservative events in the past year, citing purported violations of its policies Read more

Politicians’ recent marshaling of public institutions for geopolitical, economic and societal ends has narrowed their room to maneuver, according to European University Association autonomy scorecard. Read more

A subsidiary of Alphabet, which owns Google, hopes to develop drone delivery-network technology able to handle tens of millions of orders, within 12 months. Read more