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The UK hosted a total of 758,855 international students during the last academic year – with India, China and Nigeria sending the most students, new data released by HESA today revealed. It marked a record high for students coming to the UK, beating the previous record set in the 2021/22 academic year, when there were…
Dive Brief: Building affordable housing for graduate students is becoming increasingly important for universities — but inflation, interest rates and other challenges are likely to constrain projects in the short term, according to a July report from Moody’s. Institutions have looked to fill the need through partnerships with private developers, analysts with the ratings agency…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Editor’s note: This story is developing and will be updated. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2025-26 academic year will be fully available by Dec. 1 — two months later than the form’s usual…
Overall, schools need to seek out “observability tools that can process, analyze and route data — metrics, events, logs and traces — across any IT environment,” Prevost says. That end-to-end visibility “empowers ITOps, engineering and security teams with shared data, context and workflows to see where a problem originated and its impact,” she says. To…
There has been an outpouring of voices from the sector, warning that a proposed cap on international student numbers in Australia will have dire economic consequences and will risk the livelihood of more than 30,000 Australians employed in the sector, according to ITECA. “The Australian government’s international education policy is in tatters and lacks…
Philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools. Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science will benefit from the gift by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Greenwood Initiative….
Dr. Charles Steele, Jr.Longtime civil rights leader Dr. Charles Steele, Jr., has announced he will step down as president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the civil rights organization founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Steele, who has been at SCLC for nearly 20 years and served at the…
Morehouse College has received an anonymous, $20 million gift to expand academic programs and professorships at the college. Dr. Kendrick Brown“This transformational $20 million gift will allow us to increase the ranks of our esteemed and talented professors so that we can uphold the legacy of excellence in our classrooms as our as veteran faculty…
Tim WalzVice President Kamala Harris’s pick for running mate in the 2024 presidential election is a former social studies teacher who has, so far, received glowing remarks from educator and labor union leaders. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was named Harris’s pick to follow her as vice presidential nominee on the Democratic Party ticket ahead of…
The data, updated by the US government in July 2024, showed the longest visa appointment wait times of 361 days for students from Accra, Ghana, while many Indian embassies have cut down wait times to less than four weeks. “The bottlenecks in South Asia are remarkable, the challenges in Africa must be addressed soon…