The UK's new cabinet minister for science says that she will have a "relentless focus" on using research to make people's lives better. Read more

If the Biden administration wants to create a list of “low-financial-value” postsecondary programs, it’s going to have to overcome stiff opposition from the higher education lobby, which decried the plan as a slippery slope, problematic and potentially dangerous. Read more

A student at California State University started an incident on campus after sending a threatening email to get class cancelled over a Nintendo stream. Read more

The Education Department received nearly 13,000 comments about its planned income-driven repayment overhaul, which it wants to carry out this year. But first, it will have to review all the comments. Read more

Forty-one Princeton University undergraduates have signed a letter requesting the English Department condemn the “anti-Jewish bias and remarks” of a Palestinian writer and activist who recently spoke at the Ivy League campus. The department has declined. Read more

Creator of AP courses shows anger over Florida governor’s suggestion that its new addition, covering African American studies, lacks educational value Read more

Increasingly it seems there is nothing that ChatGPT cannot do, even consulting judges in cases and boosting research. Read more

The Shanghai Ranking, an evaluation institute that specializes in higher education, released the 2022 Best Chinese Subjects Ranking on Sept 21, 2022. Read more

A new survey by Wiley finds that one-fourth of students said they would be more invested in their courses if they learned in a way that emulated their future careers. Read more

As New Jersey considers legislation making public universities more accountable for their spending, Rutgers University’s budget shows massive increases in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) spending. Read more