‘Don’t fear’ waking giant of international education
‘We all fare better if we work together,’ says Washington lobbyist, as US turns a corner in its approach to foreign students Read more
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Afghan women arrive in Edinburgh to finish medical degrees denied under Taliban
Three-year campaign by parents of aid worker killed in Afghanistan brings 19 trainee doctors to Scotland Read more
All UC Berkeley freshmen will learn about ‘Jewish history and culture’
In the wake of campus unrest linked to pro-Palestinian protests, the University of California Berkeley is expanding its antisemitism education this fall, including in its Golden Bear Orientation. Read more
When a U.S. Presidential Candidate Is Called a ‘DEI Hire’
The first Black woman to be a major party’s nominee for president is facing conservative attacks on her race. We spoke to an Obama historian about past precedent and today’s differences. Read more
ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner
OpenAI and global magazine giant Condé Nast have announced a partnership to allow ChatGPT and its search engine SearchGPT to display content from Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ and other well known publications. Read more
Trademark lawsuit could disrupt a big business for higher ed
Everyone has a favorite college T-shirt. Whether you throw it on to run errands or break it out for game day, we all have at least one shirt proudly displaying the college team’s logo—or trademark—we support. Read more
Emerson College fires 10 employees, sees enrollment drop following anti-Israel demonstrations
Emerson’s president had earlier mentioned the fall in enrollment and attributed it partly to fallout from previous anti-Israel protests. Read more
e EducationSchoolsTeachersUniversitiesStudents Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school View image in fullscreen The Education Policy Institute study tracked 576,000 students who started year 7 in 2006. Photograph: Peter Lopeman/Alamy Pupil behaviour
Study also finds they are less likely to go on to further or higher education than those not suspended Read more
Penn State wants pro-DEI students for taxpayer-funded voter registration job
A work-study job advertised at Penn State University wants students committed to “anti-racism practices” to help a left-leaning political organization register and educate voters. Read more
New College of Florida Is Dumping Books—and Losing Professors
The conservative transformation of the institution continues, with gender studies texts being tossed and the faculty chair, plus other professors, taking leave. Read more
