‘Crisis’ as Indian states battle BJP for control of universities
Latest salvo sees Keralan state government challenge national president in the Supreme Court over vice-chancellor appointments Read more
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Tory immigration policies risk over-reliance on Chinese students, ex-universities minister warns
The Conservative party’s “scorched earth” immigration policies risk UK universities becoming increasingly reliant on students from China to avoid financial crisis, a former universities minister has said. Read more
Harvard sociologist defended against plagiarism accusations: ‘Bogus claims’
Colleagues are coming to the defense of a Harvard University sociologist who was recently accused of plagiarism, arguing the claims are bogus and part of a larger attack on black female scholars in higher education. Read more
Oak Point University Announces Closure
Oak Point University in Illinois announced last week that it is unexpectedly closing at the end of the spring semester, shuttering its two campuses Read more
Less hope schools will process FAFSA forms in time as blunders continue
Last week, the Department of Education announced its latest setback to this year’s mightily turbulent FAFSA season. The Department and the Federal Student Aid office have miscalculated the data of “several hundred thousand financial aid forms,” CNN reports. Consequently, fewer students will be ready come college decision day, May 1. Read more
Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions
Public schools nationwide suspend students for ambiguous reasons, prompting hundreds of thousands of missed days for behavior that rarely threatens school safety. Read more
Personal statements scrapped over growing ChatGPT use
Singapore Management University provost Timothy Clark says reforms will push students away from using generative AI in admissions statements Read more
Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe
How did a small, relatively poor country become an educational powerhouse? Creativity, autonomy and a deep embrace of the digital age Read more
After Education Department botched FAFSA application season, fiasco gets worse
The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced it has discovered a new calculation error that caused the wrong information for several hundred thousand student financial aid applications to be sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them. Read more
Sting operation fools a proctoring service—and results in blackmail attempt
A staff member at a Florida college, posing as a student, hires a contract cheating firm to test the institution’s systems for preventing fraud. The outcome offers lessons for instructors and students as virtual learning expands. Read more
