Screen-sharing scams on the rise, watchdog warns
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is warning people to beware of people posing as investment advisers and offering to help them set up new schemes via online meeting platforms. Read more
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What 3 elements are driving the attacks on tenure, free speech in higher education?
The severity of sanctions is increasing, so what does that mean for the best and brightest faculty? Read more
University’s equity programming created separate events for ‘White students,’ ‘students of color’
The Racial Equity Taskforce at Anderson University recently announced that it "postponed" planned listening sessions on race and equity. Read more
Turnover, Burnout and Demoralization in Higher Ed
A researcher explores academe’s version of the “big quit”—what’s distinctive about it and why campus leaders need to take it seriously. Read more
‘Fake students’ financial aid fraud continues in Calif. colleges, potentially costing taxpayers millions
The California Community Colleges system continues to face an unknown amount of application and financial aid fraud as officials work to put in place a variety of solutions to address it, such as updated software programs and new requirements for campuses to better report data to oversight agencies. Read more
‘Pupils are distressed’: community fights top London school’s takeover
Parents and students at one of England’s top academy schools, where the children of Michael Gove and former Commons Speaker John Bercow are pupils, are locked in a bitter dispute with ministers about plans for the school to be taken over by one of the country’s largest academy chains. Read more
£5m Virtual Reality centre launches in Portsmouth
I'm in a large and colourful wooden-floored room. There's a man standing next to me, and a bird is at my feet. Suddenly both the man and the bird disappear. It sounds like the start of a surreal dream, and in a way it is, because none of it is real. I was actually standing on a high-tech digital stage at Portsmouth University. Read more
Virginia’s community colleges are losing students. Can free tuition bring them back?
Known as G3 — “Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead” — it covers the cost of community college for low- and middle-income students in high-demand fields. Read more
Academy’s database boycott may herald Chinese publishing shake-up
Scholars question whether open access platforms could step in to replace dominance of China National Knowledge Infrastructure
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