Biden ends months-long Republican showdown by accepting budgetary freeze that will tighten institutions’ budgets and likely hurt students with the greatest need Read more

Starting in July, Virginia will not require state job applicants to have a college degree across 90% of its classified positions, dramatically altering the utility of a higher education degree. Read more

A large contingent of parents of graduating seniors who sat through Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber’s recent commencement address described it as hypocritical and a “woke sermon” Read more

Thousands of Reddit communities have "gone dark" as part of a protest by users over how the site is being run. Read more

With student loan payments set to resume, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report shows more borrowers are struggling. “The situation is worse than we could have imagined,” one advocate said. Read more

The official flame for the 31st Summer World University Games was flown from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, to Beijing on Thursday for the torch relay due to start at the weekend. Read more

Centre-periphery model of higher education ‘already obsolete’, with strong research output from a growing number of nations, scholar tells Boston conference Read more

The University of California Board of Regents recently voted to move forward with plans to hire illegal immigrant students for campus jobs, despite federal law seeming to prohibit it. Read more

The Mathematical Association of America is facing controversy for deciding to host its big annual conference in Tampa. Read more

Meta has shown staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter, sources have told the BBC. Read more