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Chinese President Xi Jinping used his New Year’s Eve speech to emphasize breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, chip development, robotics and aerospace, framing tech advances as central to...

Business school leaders signaled a shift in priorities for 2026, balancing accelerated AI adoption with renewed emphasis on human judgment. Poets&Quants collected deans’ resolutions showing many...

Colleges and universities are confronting twin workforce pressures: a wave of retirements among seasoned employees and tight talent markets that make hiring harder. Industry analysis urges...

Career and technical education (CTE) programs are growing in demand, but educators warn that facilities, equipment, and sustained funding remain barriers. An EdWeek Research Center survey shows...

A lawyer is fighting a high-stakes immigration enforcement action involving a detained graduate student, a case that exposes tensions between deportation policy and due-process protections for...

The American Federation of Teachers and a Chicago nonprofit filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education after the agency abruptly halted multiyear Full-Service Community Schools grants....

Education Week’s tracker reports a steep decline in school shootings that caused injuries or deaths in 2025—the fewest in five years—and notes zero such shootings so far in 2026. The 2025 tally...

Education Week highlights that many middle and high school students still struggle with foundational reading skills and that secondary schools often lack schedules, training, and age-appropriate...

Colleges and universities are reassessing cloud strategy as AI workloads move from specialized research to core functions such as recruitment, advising, student support and campus safety. IT...

Business schools moved beyond pilot projects in 2025, embedding AI across curricula and launching new degrees and facilities focused on tech, sustainability and leadership. Schools highlighted for...

Top business‑school deans signaled a strategic pivot for 2026: while endorsing AI and digital tools, leaders emphasized cultivating human judgment and consensus‑building. UC Berkeley Haas Dean...

Meta announced the acquisition of Singapore‑based Manus, a provider of general‑purpose AI agents, with the company positioned to scale agent services across Meta’s consumer and business products....

Nvidia licensed technology from Groq and absorbed much of its team as the company hedges on inference—the stage of AI that turns models into recurring services. Nvidia executives framed inference...

A leading AI investor warned that speculative third‑party data‑center developers face a looming financing crunch as capital inflows collide with mismatched customer demand. Alex Davis of...

Demographic shifts are accelerating retirements and creating talent gaps across sectors, and experts urge higher‑education employers to adopt phased‑retirement models to retain institutional...

Federal investigators have been pursuing teenage hacking collectives—including groups tied to Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and related actors—that prosecutors say have infiltrated companies worth...

Protests triggered by Iran’s currency collapse and inflation have expanded onto university campuses, turning academic settings into centers of political demonstration. The spillover has put...

A growing number of UK universities are offering lifelong careers services to alumni in their 40s and 50s, expanding traditional campus‑based career centers into mid‑career support hubs. Services...

Campus IT leaders are reorganizing cloud strategy as AI workloads move beyond research and into student services and administration. Institutions are weighing where to run models for recruitment,...

Meta has agreed to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based AI-agent platform with Chinese roots, in a transaction reported at more than $2 billion. Meta said Manus will deliver general-purpose agents...