TikTok sparks user revolt in US over sale plan
American politicians are being inundated with calls from TikTok users unhappy at plans to force its parent company to sell the social media app. Read more
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American politicians are being inundated with calls from TikTok users unhappy at plans to force its parent company to sell the social media app. Read more
An Education Department rule-making committee went back and forth this week over how and whether states should regulate out-of-state online colleges, but didn’t reach an agreement. Read more
Some of the country’s biggest institutions have suffered bruising defeats of late despite the justice system generally favouring the powerful. What explains this losing streak and will it change anything? Read more
Language is naturally acquired when children are able to use it pleasurably, and language acquisition by children themselves saves both time and labor, said English-language education expert Chen Yaping. Read more
Harvard University dropped its COVID-19 vaccination requirement on Tuesday after previously requiring students to get the vaccine, plus boosters. Read more
Students today are subject to a kind of ideological bullying and intellectual restriction that would have been unimaginable 30 years ago. Read more
The University of Iowa’s learning centers used to hold in-person classes for graduate business and social work students, but those students have preferred remote learning since the pandemic. Read more
It sounds like science fiction. Ocean-going ships with no-one on board. But this vision of the future is coming - and sooner than you might think. Read more
“Concierge moms” are starting to pop up around the country and at least one mother in Massachusetts is using it to help her kids at college. Read more
Michelle Donelan had accused two members of Research England’s advisory group of ‘sharing extremist views’ in letter to UKRI Read more