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Older, white, male professors are to be targeted for politically correct training at a leading UK university and given “reverse mentors” to lecture them on so-called “unconscious bias”.

China struggled to protect the reputation of its Confucius Institute as an educational and cultural “bridge” between China and the world in a column on Friday, while suspicions grow deeper the Institutes serve as instruments for spreading Chinese regime influence into other societies.

A leading academic who said Brexit would dramatically reduce the British university sector’s standing in global rankings has admitted the claim was “plucked out of the air”.

I am done with Oxford University. Possibly I have said this before but it can’t be said often enough. Here is its latest outburst of progressive ridiculousness.

British university academics are plying students with ‘Stop Brexit’ propaganda at lecturers, a Tory MP has revealed.

Indiana lawmakers are considering the possibility of making it legal for illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities.

A new study has found that New England colleges and universities, including prestigious Ivy League schools, are the most closed-minded in the country when it comes to entertaining a diversity of political and cultural viewpoints.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” network senior political analyst Brit Hume speculated as to why there’s been such a pushback against conservative viewpoints on college campuses. Host Tucker Carlson and Hume suggested those anti-free speech efforts come

Duke Divinity School has forced out a professor who refused to kowtow to the liberal academic zeitgeist in a latest example of the death of free intellectual inquiry and expression on America’s college campuses.

Only 25 percent of Americans believe that higher education is “fine how it is,” according to a recent survey by the think tank New America.

The police department serving a north Texas university issued arrest warrants for three students in connection with possible organized criminal activity–two who stand accused of promoting prostitution and a third, solely on drug possession.

Governor Greg Abbott addressed members of the Texas House and Senate in his State of the State Address on Tuesday and laid out his emergency items, including banning sanctuary cities, reforming the embattled agency responsible for safeguarding children, calling for a Convention of States to address overreaches by the federal government, and ethics reform governing elected officials.

Government plans to rate universities based on student satisfaction could give free rein to “safe space” mentality, futher stifling free speech on campus, academics have warned. Peers are backing the academics concerns, and may deliver a cross party revolt in

America has elected a president who represents the polar opposite of the coddled, PC culture that reigns on college campuses.

In a latest measure to create a “safe space” for students, a number of universities have issued “costume protocol,” banning such un-PC Halloween costumes as Arab turbans, feathered Indian headdresses, Japanese Geisha outfits, and Caitlyn Jenner costumes.

If there’s one thing the right can agree on at the moment, it’s that the American campus is in a dire state. Donald Trump is the only candidate with a credible plan to fix them.

In rebellion against the trend toward less freedom of expression in higher education, Chicago states that its commitment to academic freedom “means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”

A California lawmaker who is sponsoring a bill that would have allowed the use of taxpayer dollars to punish and publicly shame Christian universities for operating according to their beliefs has removed an offending provision from the legislation.

This week, Cambridge University students called for the cancellation of an Africa-themed dinner, deemed “racist” on the basis that the menu “reduces an entire continent into 3 courses”, and that students at the event would be eating in a room

University students are increasingly unable to read a whole book as they simply don’t have the concentration spans required, nor are they able to understand complex, nuanced arguments, academics have said. Lecturers at leading British universities are having to actively

Author Jeff Selingo appeared on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about his new book, There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.

Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich stated he would withhold “capital dollars” from colleges that had students “walking in there and walking around in circles for two or three years, not getting a degree, ringing up the debt, and

GOP Candidate Sen. Marco Rubio continued his theme during the GOP debate Tuesday that the United States is in global competition yet is unprepared to engage in it, in part because the nation’s higher education system is outdated.

Silicon Valley’s “coding bootcamps” are a cottage industry of fast-track private vocational schools for graduates looking to enter the competitive tech industry as software engineers, data scientists, and other in-demand jobs. Many coding bootcamp graduates who hold college degrees in areas notorious for slim earning potential (like English majors) and are now fully employed in the tech industry making a lot more money.

President Obama announced “my Administration is launching a new College Scorecard” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody.  Next week marks seven years since a financial crisis on Wall Street that would usher in some hard years for

Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeb Bush slammed Hillary Clinton’s plan as being a poor fit for the modern economic and educational needs of today’s students and for its negative impact on taxpayers.

Governor Greg Abbott spoke to Houston business leaders about his legislative agenda to make Texas “even stronger.” In a speech before the Greater Houston Partnership, Gov. Abbott reiterated the key elements of his State of the State speech he delivered to a joint session of the Texas Legislature on February 17th.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott moved forward with his priority legislation items by declaring five issues to be “emergency items.” The emergency designation allows the Texas Legislature to act on the items within the first sixty days of the session which

When the dust settled in the University of Illinois clout abuse scandal, not only were the institution’s president and regents fired, but a statewide officeholder, the house speaker, a state senator, a congressman, and two state representatives found themselves in hot water and their political careers in ruins. Texas legislators should pay attention.

An email message was sent to the entire faculty of the University of Texas at Austin on a university listserv Tuesday morning encouraging them to oppose a “campus carry” bill being considered by the Texas Senate, SB 11, which would allow those with permits to carry concealed handguns to also carry their guns on college campuses.

Ann Coulter, columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican,” argued that the federal government was “promoting a bubble” with higher education similar to the subprime mortgage bubble on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “The