There was an English exam under way when news began to circulate that the Taliban had reached Kabul. Panic spread and Yamna was among the students who never finished that exam paper – and never returned to school. Read more

Lawyer says, 'There was no cause for terminating any of them. There was no discipline, no notice.' Read more

South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise Read more

‘At every moment when a new America seems to be about to be born, the umbilical cord of white supremacy is wrapped around the baby’s neck, choking the life out of it’ Read more

A federal appeals court partially reversed a lower court ruling against students seeking refunds from American University and George Washington University for moving online during COVID-19. Read more

Crypto-currency trading platform Coinbase has blocked 25,000 wallet addresses related to Russia. Read more

A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the state’s attorney general announced Monday. Read more

The Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group at the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on the 'ongoing relevance of Marxism to the current historical moment, as an explicitly global project.' Read more

The authors of a new book discuss how higher education lost its way and what institutions need to do to get back to their mission of transforming students’ lives. Read more

Enrollment in community colleges has lagged, bringing new tech-focused efforts into focus. Read more