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Incoming university students are reporting loneliness and unmet social expectations during freshers’ week, with social media amplifying feelings of exclusion, according to student accounts and...

England faces a steep fall in teacher trainees in some regions — the North East saw a 56% drop in five years — while entrants over 40 are the fastest‑growing trainee group, raising debate about...

Geoffrey Hinton, a seminal figure in AI, warned that corporate bets on artificial intelligence assume massive worker replacement is necessary for investors to profit. He argued that to justify the...

Business school deans across the U.S. reported steep drops in international graduate enrollment this fall and warned the decline will persist, according to an Eduvantis Fall 2025 Business School...

Colleges and universities face sharply higher costs to hire foreign talent after the administration added a $100,000 fee for many H‑1B workers. The change raises recruiting and budget questions...

Harvard Medical School officials say an explosion on campus was intentional and reported seeing two people run from the building; the school has asked the public to help identify the individuals...

Newly released internal emails show Mark A. Welsh III, then-president of Texas A&M, was closely involved in managing a viral controversy that led to a professor’s firing. The correspondence...

University of Pennsylvania officials reported a fraudulent email campaign that sent crude, profanity-laced messages from an account tied to the Graduate School of Education to students, alumni and...

Campus pilots and faculty research show immersive tech and hyflex classroom design are moving from experimentation to strategic investment. A Pepperdine study found students reported higher...

San Jose State University is embedding generative AI across academics and operations through partnerships with OpenAI, IBM, Microsoft and NVIDIA, launching campus certificates and...

Indiana University restored a student newspaper’s right to publish in print after widespread criticism prompted the university to reverse an earlier decision that had limited news coverage to...

An essay examines the pressures facing university writing programs—political scrutiny, ideological attacks and disruption from AI—and argues the discipline is essential but must adapt. The piece...

Marcyliena Morgan, who founded and built Harvard University’s Hip‑Hop Archive and helped legitimize hip‑hop studies in academe, died at 75. Her work collecting recordings, scholarly essays and...

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Education to temporarily reinstate canceled federal grants for school-based student mental health services, finding that the abrupt...

Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C., filed briefs urging a court to overturn the Education Department’s recent rejection of TRIO grant applications, saying the...

The U.S. Department of Education finalized a rule narrowing which employers qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, saying organizations deemed to have a “substantial...

A new $100,000 fee imposed by the federal government for certain foreign hires will significantly raise the cost of bringing international talent to U.S. campuses, altering budget assumptions for...

Internal emails obtained by The Chronicle reveal that Mark A. Welsh III, then‑president of Texas A&M, took a hands‑on role in managing a campus controversy that led to the firing of a professor...

A fraudulent email campaign sent from an account tied to the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education distributed profanity‑laced, ideologically charged messages to thousands of...

A truck hauling 21 rhesus macaques overturned on a Mississippi interstate, killing five animals and leaving three at large, authorities said. Tulane University said the monkeys had been housed at...