Nearly $2bn (£1.75bn) has been spent on virtual land in the past 12 months, as people and companies race to get a foothold in the metaverse, research shows. Read more

Academics who tweet are weighing the opportunity costs of leaving Twitter while looking into other social media platforms. But few are fleeing the digital gathering space in which they have invested so much—at least not yet. Read more

Oral arguments for STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. V. PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE began at 1 p.m. on Monday after the earlier affirmative action case against the University of North Carolina (UNC) ran long. Read more

A group of pupils in east London have seen off – temporarily at least – the workers who had come to dismantle their school street. Read more

Stanford University officials removed a man from the basement of a campus housing unit last week, the Los Angeles Times reported. William Curry, from Birmingham, Ala., had been living in Stanford dormitories for 10 months, despite not being a Stanford student. Read more

More than a month after the University of Virginia determined that vandalism at the Office of African-American Affairs was “unrelated to racial bias,” officials still will not provide further details on the suspect. Read more

As Dixie Samaniego prepared for her first semester at California State University Fullerton, she had one focus: finding a way to pay. Read more

Glaciers across the globe - including the last ones in Africa - will be unavoidably lost by 2050 due to climate change, the UN says in a report. Read more

As college students have come back to campus, most have returned to the conventional pursuit of the long-lauded bachelor’s degree, the prerequisite qualification since time immemorial to apply to nearly every job with a decent wage and reliable career path. Read more

The National Union of Students has ousted its president after a long-running independent inquiry into allegations of antisemitism found “significant breaches” of the organisation’s policies. Read more