The world.edu network focuses on education, science, innovation and the environment.
Here you can submit and vote on the best content from the world’s leading organisations and websites.
In addition to clearing $400,000 in loan debt for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the Department of Education agreed to several reforms, adding to last week’s announced overhaul of the program. Read more
Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson talked to students at the University of Florida on game day about diversity quotas. She first asked students if they support diversity quotas in hiring decisions and in college admissions processes. Most of the students said yes. Read more
The University of Cambridge has broken off talks with the United Arab Emirates over a record £400m collaboration after claims about the Gulf state’s use of controversial Pegasus hacking software, the university’s vice-chancellor has said. Read more
College has traditionally been treated as a time for some combination of youthful rebellion, debauchery and self-discovery. Yet, in the age of COVID, most students have come to embrace conditions more akin to those of a psychiatric hospital circa 1962 than the Delta Tau Chi house of Faber College. Read more
Microsoft is shutting down its social network, LinkedIn, in China, saying having to comply with the Chinese state has become increasingly challenging. Read more
A Portland footwear designer said Tuesday he will reopen Michigan’s only historically black college and university next year in Detroit with a design focus. Read more
Dealing with climate change can seem impossibly costly. By all accounts, the toll will be many trillions of dollars annually for many years to come. Read more
In 2018, Temple University embarked on a registration goal of hiring a freshman class with no ethnic majority. Read more
New federal data show a significantly higher proportion of college learners took at least one course online than previously thought. Read more
Academic Peter Ridd has lost his “all or nothing” high court appeal against James Cook University, after he was sacked for breaches of the university’s code of conduct relating to public commentary about the Great Barrier Reef which the university said denigrated a colleague. Apply online
