Education
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Poland’s Medical School Boom Can’t Fill Residency Slots — Here’s Why
The number of Polish medical schools has surged 150% since 2020, yet over 2,000 state-funded residency positions remaine...
Egypt’s 2026 Thanaweya Amma Results Still Pending as Ministry Warns Against Fake News
Egypt’s Ministry of Education says final corrections are underway and warns that no date or result has been approved yet...
Australia Raises Student Visa Fees 25%, Shields ASEAN in Diplomatic Push
Canberra sharply increases international student visa costs but exempts Southeast Asian nations, balancing migration con...
Global Universities Face Uneven Post-COVID Recovery as China Policy Shifts and US Enrollment Stagnates
New data shows international student mobility rebounding but unevenly, while domestic enrollment drops and China’s regul...
Police Bust Proxy TOPIK Exam Fraud Ring Targeting University Admissions
Seoul police have charged 113 individuals in a proxy test scheme that helped Chinese students obtain high Korean profici...
London Launches 'Londonmaxxing' Campaign to Crown Itself World’s Higher Education Capital
Mayor Sadiq Khan joins universities, conservatoires and research centres to showcase London’s unmatched scale and econom...
South Dakota's Education Waiver Unlocks $19M in Flexible Funds for District-Led Priorities
The U.S. Department of Education approved South Dakota's 'Returning Education to the States' waiver, allowing the state ...
Bulgarian Students' Financial Literacy Soars After Practical Finance Program
A Junior Achievement program saw the share of Bulgarian students scoring top marks in financial literacy leap from 13.6%...
Half of College Leaders Rely on PR to Fix Public Trust Crisis, Survey Suggests
A new survey of 430 college presidents finds only 2% think higher ed has been highly effective at rebuilding trust, and ...
How Higher Ed Metaphors Evolve—and Why the Words Professors Use Matter
From 'broadening horizons' to 'rearranging intellectual furniture', the language academics pick to describe teaching sha...
Colleges Struggle to Define AI Policy as Technology Outpaces Governance
Rapid AI advances frustrate faculty calls for clear rules; administrators weigh academic integrity, workforce demands, a...
Why DEI Practitioners Are Urged to Question Institutional Shrinking — and Stay Grounded
As anti-DEI laws reshape campus programs nationwide, a Florida State professor outlines four strategies to preserve equi...
Jensen Huang’s $75M Gift Names Vanderbilt’s New San Francisco College
The NVIDIA CEO and his wife Lori have donated $75 million to Vanderbilt University’s future San Francisco campus, their ...
UNC and Virginia Tech Step In After Pentagon Cuts Ties With Elite Private Universities Over ‘Woke’ Accusations
The Defense Department selects UNC-Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech to host a senior military leadership fellowship, replac...
Michigan Launches Program to Turn Apprenticeships Into Associate Degrees
A new state initiative gives registered apprentices college credit for on-the-job training, letting many earn an associa...
White House Strategy Aims to Shift Billions in Research Funding Away from Universities
A new White House science strategy promotes funding individual researchers and multi-year grants while encouraging agenc...
Harvard President Warns Federal Research Funding Fight Threatens U.S. Science Leadership
Alan Garber, in a D.C. interview, defends Harvard's refusal to settle with the Trump administration over $2.2B in resear...
Three Programmatic Accreditors Pull Back from Federal Recognition Amid Policy Clash
Undersecretary Kent says higher standards prompted withdrawals; Midwifery Education Accreditation Council disputes that,...
US Education Department Opens Racial Discrimination Probes into Five Medical Schools
The Office for Civil Rights investigates Dartmouth's medical school and others for alleged Title VI violations, part of ...
Education Department Eliminates Duplicative MOA Requirements for CTE Programs
The Office for Civil Rights removes a 1979-era compliance review mandate, freeing up state resources while keeping core ...
India’s NEET Exam Crisis Triggers Mass Protests, Shaking Education Sector Confidence
A violent student protest over leaked medical entrance exams has ballooned into a political crisis, threatening the stab...
AAUP Accuses Donors, Politicians of 'Extorting' University Autonomy
The American Association of University Professors warns that federal funding threats and donor pressure are being used t...
Japan's Schools Fight Record Heat with Freezers, Parasols and Cooling Pads for Students
Heatstroke emergencies topped 100,000 in 2025 as temperatures hit 40°C. Schools and cities are rolling out ice-slurry dr...
Colorado District Slashes Kindergarten Chronic Absenteeism with Mascots and Community Support
Thompson School District used a stuffed wildcat, warm welcomes and a free community resource room to cut chronic absence...
French Vocational Training Delivers 4-Year Public ROI, But €1.9bn Cuts Threaten the Model
As the French government eyes €1.9bn in Labour Ministry savings by 2027, a Synofdes study shows each public euro spent o...
Universities turn to student creators as Gen Z tunes out traditional ads
With Gen Z and Gen Alpha ignoring polished marketing, UCL and ETS are among those formalising student storytelling roles...
Campus Tech Briefing: Gates Project, Mobile IDs, and a New Kind of Student Hub
From a Gates-funded digital tools study to iPhone-compatible campus IDs and AI keynotes, universities are rethinking how...
AHRQ Cuts Off $100M+ in Health Research Grants, Pivoting to AI and Digital Health Priorities
The Trump administration abruptly ended continuation funding for at least 73 AHRQ research grants, citing federal intere...
Trump-Era Visa Rules and Funding Overhaul Threaten US International Education Dominance
Trump-era visa changes and political oversight of federal grants threaten U.S. higher ed as nearly 60% of colleges see i...
NINLAN Builds State-of-the-Art Language Lab to Drive Multilingual Research and Digital Skills
Nigeria's National Institute For Nigerian Languages has deployed ICT facilities and contemporary language learning appli...