Latest Higher Education News

The U.S. Department of Education announced a temporary 1% reduction in interest rates on certain federal Direct Loans, effective July 1, in a bid to make repayment more manageable for borrowers...

A widening “enrollment volatility” problem is pushing universities to miss targets and plan for deficits tied to the downstream effects of post–Great Recession birth declines, according to...

Utah’s measles outbreak has slowed but remains active enough to threaten another surge as students return to school and colder weather arrives, state epidemiologist Leisha Nolen warned. Utah has...

New student loan rates tied to the next school year are set to change on July 1, adding another layer of financial planning pressure for students and institutions trying to forecast aid demand....

KPMG’s global risk leadership is urging boards to redesign AI oversight as AI moves from novelty to core enterprise activity. In its guidance, the firm argues that governance models are no longer...

EY’s analysis suggests AI’s biggest problem for many organizations is not adoption speed but the “tempo gap”—the mismatch between machine-generated outputs and human comprehension and...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told UK audiences that electricians, plumbers, and other skilled craft workers will be needed “by the hundreds of thousands” as data centers expand to support AI workloads....

A new push in Career and Technical Education coverage highlights transportation access as a structural barrier to work-based learning, internships, and community college course participation. The...

A workforce-entry story highlights how one recent graduate used in-person recruiter engagement instead of relying on cold-message hiring workflows. Basant Shenouda, after graduating from the...

Whitman College is pitching a simplified tuition model designed to reduce friction for families by quoting price based on adjusted gross income rather than requiring a separate application for...

Britain moved closer to restricting social media access for under-16s, with officials and campaigners framing the change as a response to alleged harms tied to platforms. The proposal, still short...

The U.S. Department of Education announced a temporary 1% interest-rate reduction for certain federal Direct Loan borrowers starting July 1, positioning it as a cost-relief measure for repayment....

Higher education leaders are increasingly describing enrollment volatility as an operational and financial risk—one linked to delayed demographic effects from the Great Recession. Syracuse...

The Pentagon reported a rapid increase in AI tool usage across the Department of Defense, but also acknowledged that adoption still trails policy expectations. Pentagon Chief Technology Officer...

A new West Health-Gallup Affordability Index report found that only about half of U.S. adults are “cost secure” in health—recording a decline compared with earlier years and signaling heightened...

KPMG’s global risk chief outlined a governance framework for boards facing the AI era, arguing that oversight models have not kept pace with AI’s shift from experimentation to core strategy and...

GoDaddy’s corporate domains chief argued that a new round of branded internet suffix applications could become important infrastructure as AI agents and synthetic content reshape how people find...

Career and Technical Education organizations highlighted that CTE access barriers are often structural, not program-based—especially when work-based learning and community college course options...

Disability advocates raised concerns about a new special education role tied to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguing that administration shifts could disrupt services and oversight for students with...

A report flagged that interest rates on new federal student loans will rise on July 1 for the upcoming school year, leaving students and families facing additional borrowing-cost pressure. The...