‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’
Teacher education programs were facing major problems even before the pandemic, but are they dying of natural causes or being killed off? Either way, what's lost when they go away for good?
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Brown University students want Roman statues removed because they promote ‘white supremacy’
A Brown University student group, Decolonization at Brown, wants the school to remove two Roman statues displayed on campus, claiming the statues represent white supremacy and colonialism.
Male-only programmes at four in 10 Indian scientific conferences
Organisers refused to engage with the problem, or offered a series of stock excuses, say campaigners
UW-Madison student gov votes to remove Lincoln statue, a ‘remnant’ of ‘white supremacy’
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student government approved a resolution calling for the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln on campus.
Facebook sued over Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Facebook is being sued for failing to protect users' personal data in the Cambridge Analytica breach.
Half of all US adults say colleges that brought students back to campus made the right decision
As colleges and universities deal with coronavirus outbreaks, the question of whether these institutions made the right decision in bringing students back on campus continues to be a topic of national conversation.
MSU ‘eliminates’ the terms ‘foreign’ and ‘alien’
The Michigan State University Provost said the school would no longer use the terms "foreign" or "alien."
Five months later, and GWU still has not reaffixed beheaded George Washington monument
It’s been five months since George Washington University found a bust of its namesake and the nation’s first president on the ground.
Missing freshers leave US colleges with big costs and few answers
With government aid lacking, institutions struggle to identify winning strategies
Experian: Credit agency told to stop sharing data without consent
Credit reference agency Experian has been sharing the personal information of millions of people without consent and must stop, the UK's information commissioner has ruled.
