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Britain’s National Union of Student (NUS) has elected as president a woman who has refused to condemn Islamic State (IS), called for violent “resistance” against Israel and believes a Jewish conspiracy controls the mainstream media.

A group of charter school students offended by the “presence of Ted Cruz” wrote a letter in protest to a scheduled school event with the presidential candidate, accusing him of being “misogynistic, homophobic, and racist” and giving the school’s principal

Hard left students protesting about rent rises in their accommodation have burned an effigy of one of their university staff members, as horrified pedestrians and motorists looked on. The footage, from earlier this week, shows a handful of radical left

A pro-Brexit student group has been denied acceptance as an official university group because the word “Britain” in its title might have negative connotations for foreign students. Eurosceptic students at Keele University applied to their Students’ Union for formal recognition of their group,

A straight, biological man is a hot favourite in the race to become the National Union of Students’ (NUS) Women’s officer. Anna Lee describes himself as a “queer trans disabled lesbian woman”, and is currently the LGBT officer at Lancaster

Augusta County Public Schools in Virginia are closed Friday, after parents objected to a ninth grade geography assignment that required students to copy the Shahada, an Islamic statement of faith that says, “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”

University students and teachers are becoming increasingly ‘hard-line’ and intolerant, shouting down anyone who does not conform to their world view, a British professor has said. Antony Glees, an expert in counter-terrorism who teaches at the University of Buckingham, said

The students of San Francisco State University launched a protest and petition to reject the university’s plans to establish a partnership with Coca-Cola.

In contrast to the growing number of foreigners coming to the United States to attend college, a review of federal data finds that Americans are studying abroad at a lower rate.

A new report sent to Congress reveals that three quarters of American eighth graders tested below the proficiency level in geography last year.

The National Union of Student (NUS) is to break its promises not to work with the Guantanamo Bay detainee and Jihadi-John sympathiser group ‘CAGE’, which called the ISIS terrorist a “beautiful young man”. Just days ago, the president of the

San Diego State University may expel two students for flying a U.S. flag, along with military flags, from their dormitory balcony.

In a decade, the graduating high school class of 2025 is expected to be the largest and most racially diverse on record, with white students making up just half the class, according to a recent analysis.

President Barack Obama defended the Iran deal in a speech Wednesday, accusing Republicans in Congress of “making common cause” with the hard-liners of the Iranian regime by opposing it. Obama addressed an audience of students and journalists at American University. Obama

American Lillian Burnett of Oakland, California is four years into a medical school in the communist country of Cuba, where she says she has been taught that physicians have a role in gun violence and police brutality issues.

One of Britain’s most prestigious schools is considering banning homework to combat depression among its students. Cheltenham Ladies’ College is set to consider dropping homework – known at the school as “prep” – in response to an “anxiety epidemic” among

Parents and students from Revere Charter Middle School and Magnet Center in Los Angeles have launched a petition to restore a teacher to his job after the 29-year-veteran was suspended by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for allegedly using racial terms in class. The petition had neared 800 signatures by Monday morning.In addition, the students held a rally on Monday at the school.

The student council of the Durban University of Technology has voted to demand the university expel Jewish students who do not support the Palestinian cause.

An 18-year-old French student, Mourad Hamyd, who turned himself into police after his name appeared over French media as an alleged suspect and accomplice in the Charlie Hebdo atrocity has reportedly been cleared. But not before receiving an onslaught of support

BERKELEY, California — Mixed opinions greeted Bill Maher’s controversial appearance at Berkeley’s Saturday winter commencement. Sentiments ranged in favor of the self-proclaimed far-left talk show host and comedian to literal hatred for him and his beliefs. In October, Maher said Islam