An ‘expert’ committee advising the British government on immigration has withdrawn a survey asking students where are from and what they think about international students after cries of “racism”.
‘Project Fear’ has been dealt yet another blow as a threatened ‘Brexodus’ of EU academics failed to materialise last year, with British universities attracting foreign staff in even greater numbers.
Two educational institutions in Canada have come under fire after launching campaigns asking white people to ‘check their privilege’.
$200,000 salaries for administrative university and college staffers are drivers of rising tuition costs, said Victor Davis Hanson on Tuesday. Donors and alumnus networks should withhold funding from corrupted left-wing schools in order to compel political changes, he added.
The Chinese Party-State has been hard at work constructing a network of propaganda outposts — called Confucius Institutes or Confucius Classrooms – on the campuses of universities, colleges, and secondary schools around the world.
A Pew Research center article on significant developments in 2017 revealed that an increasing amount of Republicans hold negative views of colleges and universities.
A group of universities is joining the push for a DACA amnesty because they want to protect the revenue they get by providing white-collar work permits to 330,000 foreign graduate-customers.
“Horrified” students have launched a campaign to remove the name of four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone from a University of Liverpool building, claiming he was insufficiently devoted to the abolition of slavery.
A number of marshals policed a speech at King’s College London (KCL) by Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, after his appearance was judged to pose a risk to the university’s “safe space” policy.
British university academics are plying students with ‘Stop Brexit’ propaganda at lecturers, a Tory MP has revealed.
The Democratic Party’s leading think-tank, the Center for American Progress, is working with illegal aliens and amnesty advocates to encourage colleges and universities to admit and fund more illegal aliens in place of young Americans.
University College Dublin’s (UCD) Katie Ascough is facing an impeachment vote later this month after a campaign argued her pro-life stance is a barrier to serving as Student Union (SU) president.
British universities must take action to halt a growing climate of censorship on campus, Baroness Ruth Smeeth has said, warning that authorities are pandering to the demands of “ever more censorious students.”
A new report for the Student Exchange Visitors Program (SEVP) generated by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows that of the 1.18 million students from foreign countries studying at colleges and universities in the United States 77 percent are from Asia.
As of Monday, 183 presidents of colleges and universities across the country have signed onto a pledge to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, even though President Donald Trump has announced the U.S.’s withdrawal.
In an extensive piece published this week, Foreign Policy explores the past year of attempts to implement affirmative action in the schools of Brazil, a nation with an extraordinary number of mixed-race citizens. Many of these, the report found, applied to affirmative action programs only to be rejected for being too white.
The role of higher education in the UK and U.S. is to counter “uninformed views on immigration” and fight racism, the next leader of Australia’s universities has said.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A student at Loyola University says his professor called the police on him because he was wearing his police uniform, claiming it was allegedly making other students uncomfortable.
David Vetter, born in 1971 with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)—a hereditary disease dramatically weakening the immune system and incurable at the time—died at age twelve. Spending his short life living inside a plastic bubble that sought, unsuccessfully in the end, to protect him from the world of germs outside, he was dubbed “the bubble boy.”
Barry University, a private, Catholic university in Miami, Florida, has banned its student golf team — one of the best in the country — from all golf courses owned by Donald Trump due to the presidential candidate’s “campaign rhetoric.”
Now that the Oregon legislature has hiked the minimum wage, effective this July, colleges and universities in the state have a decision to make: hire fewer student employees, cut the school’s budget, or raise tuition.
Industry executives and university advocates have successfully duped nearly every reporter, editor and anchor nationwide about the scale and purpose of the H-1B professional outsourcing program.
A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nearly all of the increases in college tuition since 1987 can be explained by the increase in student loans made more available by government policy.
In efforts to turn their campuses into over-sanitised and politically correct “safe spaces”, British universities deny the “intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views” leading academics have warned. Professor Richard Dawkins recently told students who cannot handle hearing anti-transgender views to “leave, go home, hug
The computer network that supports academic services at Britain’s universities has suffered its worst ever cyber attack, knocking out much of the network and seriously disrupting work at several institutions. The network, known as Janet, is responsible for running the
Students at Occidental College who have occupied an administration building this week have demanded that campus safety officers stop wearing bulletproof vests.
The government will give a deadline to universities to draw up plans to counter campus radicalisation and gender segregation. The Prime Minister will also challenge the National Union of Students (NUS) on their continuing opposition to the government’s counter terrorism
A bill being considered in Congress would require universities to notify police about reports of sexual assault or else forego punishment for the accused.
A new study conducted by researchers at North Carolina State University finds that students who have a southern or Appalachian accent are often discriminated against at the nation’s colleges and universities because of how they sound.
From The Atlantic: A startling number of Chinese students are getting kicked out of American colleges. According to a white paper published by WholeRen, a Pittsburgh-based consultancy, an estimated 8,000 students from China were expelled from universities and colleges across
The survey, based on analyzing results from the top 100 universities as ranked by US News and World Report, found that the ratio of liberal speakers to conservatives at the top 100 universities was 6-to-1 and among the top 50 universities 9 to 1.
