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The student loan scam looking to dupe already anxious students
By Shane Hickey

Scammers hope to siphon off some of the £2.6bn in student maintenance funds paid out each September

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/06/student-loan-scam-maintenance-funds-dupe-students

#Scams #Studentfinance #Crime #Consumeraffairs #Money #UKnews #Students #Education #Highereducation #TheGuardian #ShaneHickey

House Passes HR 4795, Putting Israel’s Business Interests Ahead of Your Financial Aid http://dlvr.it/TVLR08 #civilrights #congress #freespeech #highereducation

“The average debt for Scottish students leaving a university north of the border was £17,990 in 2025 compared to £53,010 for students leaving English universities.” The truth is that neither #HigherEducation system is adequately funded by government. #UKPolitics apple.news/Ap-fWPFTWQRG...

Burnham under fire over ‘stagg...

CA community colleges oppose plan to offer bachelor’s degrees

In summary Two bills sent to Newsom set new rules for determining when colleges can create bachelor’s degrees…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #CaliforniaCommunityColleges #CaliforniaStateUniversity #Education #Headlines #HigherEducation #TopStories
https://www.newsbeep.com/719362/

Cambridge University asks former chief crown prosecutor to open Arday review
By Richard Adams Education editor

Nazir Afzal to focus in review’s first stage on support given to professor in immediate period before his death

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/04/cambridge-university-nazir-afzal-to-lead-first-part-jason-arday-review

#JasonArday #UniversityofCambridge #Highereducation #Education #Raceineducation #Race #CrownProsecutionService #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor

Cambridge University asks former chief crown prosecutor to open Arday review https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/04/cambridge-university-nazir-afzal-to-lead-first-part-jason-arday-review #JasonArday #UniversityOfCambridge #HigherEducation #Education #RaceInEducation #Race #CrownProsecutionService #UkNews

Academic social media hasn’t simply “moved on” from X: it has fragmented. Bluesky, LinkedIn and Mastodon now serve different scholarly publics, while X still retains reach.
Perhaps the real question is how academia builds resilient, plural communication infrastructures across platforms.
#Mastodon #AcademicSocialMedia #HigherEducation
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/has-academic-twitter-found-its-voice-again

Interesting piece on the fragmentation of academic social media: The key question may no longer be where “Academic Twitter” went, but how academic publics are being redistributed across platforms.

#AcademicSocialMedia #Bluesky #HigherEducation

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ih6ypaguutcm37typp6cftmw/post/3mup3j3yjas23

Higher education regulator apologises for imposing £585,000 fine on university
By Richard Adams Education editor

Office for Students made decision to punish University of Sussex with fine last year after claiming it breached free speech regulations

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/03/higher-education-regulator-ofs-university-sussex-fine

#Highereducation #UniversityofSussex #OfficeforStudents #Freedomofspeech #Universityadministration #Universities #Education #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor

Higher education regulator apologises for imposing £585,000 fine on university https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/03/higher-education-regulator-ofs-university-sussex-fine #HigherEducation #UniversityOfSussex #OfficeForStudents #FreedomOfSpeech #UniversityAdministration #Universities #Education #UkNews

The #Trump admin released new rules that could revoke #TaxExempt status from any #school offering targeted support to #Black or other “minority” students, a sweeping change that opens another front in his campaign to reshape #US #education.

#law #WhiteSupremacy #BrainDrain #racism #SystemicRacism #CostOfLiving #affordability #Financial #Aid #HigherEducation

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More #colleges surpass $100,000 price tag

Fifteen schools now charge six figures per year for the total cost of attendance; others are on the verge.

#education #CostOfLiving #affordability #college #university #Trump #TaxExemption #Schools #Financial #Aid #HigherEducation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/09/01/more-colleges-surpass-100k-price-tag-heres-how-you-can-afford-it/

#Trump Moves to Strip #TaxExemption From #Schools That Offer #Financial #Aid to “Minority” Students

The #Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a tremendous threat to #HigherEducation & other private schools.

#law #WhiteSupremacy #BrainDrain #racism #SystemicRacism #education #CostOfLiving #affordability #college #university
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/business/economy/trump-irs-college-nonprofits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.8dZO.ORk3zYFsiFfJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Nearly 30 years after Erasmus, university alliances are reshaping Europe’s higher education landscape but still lack visibility.

Greater awareness of common EU values is needed to foster educational ties between higher education institutional systems across the continent.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260901-nearly-30-years-after-erasmus-university-alliances-are-reshaping-europes-higher-education-landscape-but-still-lack-visibility?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Erasmus #Universities #HigherEducation #Research #Science #EuropeanResearchArea #ERA #EU #Europe

'Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is inadequate at accurately grading essays and cannot replace humans when marking student work in Higher Education, finds new research'

#AI #research #highereducation #Teaching

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/3072159-genai-cannot-accurately-mark-essays-in-higher-education

Middle #Tennessee State University is a large and diverse public institution of #HigherEducation in historic Murfreesboro, 35 miles southeast of #Nashville. It is seeking a new President. Details about the search are here: https://www.mtsu.edu/bot/presidential-search-process/

Please boost to help us find a dynamic scholar with proven leadership abilities and a servant’s heart!

Rice University: Rice archive of the unexplained gets its own TV series. “More than a million documents, recordings and files on telepathy, near-death experiences and alien encounters have been sitting in a climate-controlled facility outside Houston for years. Starting Oct. 1, they go on national television. ‘Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena,’ a six-part documentary series filmed at Rice […]

More and more undergrads are living at home. That’s a crying shame – here’s why | Rohan Sathyamoorthy
By Rohan Sathyamoorthy

Spiralling rental costs have made living with parents the only option for some students. That fails to prepare them for the realities of adult life

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/undergraduates-living-at-home-rental-cost-adult-life

#Studenthousing #Studentexperience #Students #Rentingproperty #Housing #Studentfinance #Highereducation #Education #Youngpeople #UKnews #TheGuardian #RohanSathyamoorthy

'Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community...what we learned as a group quickly convinced us that the Institute community, particularly the faculty, must tackle a set of deeper questions about the structure, meaning, and value of an MIT education in an era in which AI is one of several factors complicating the Institute’s mission'

#pedagogy #genAI #higherEducation #publicPolicy

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

Jason Arday accuser given three-month teaching ban but can continue research https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/30/nathan-cofnas-jason-arday-accuser-teaching-ban-research #JasonArday #Belgium #Universities #Europe #HigherEducation #Education #UkNews #WorldNews

Jason Arday accuser given three-month teaching ban but can continue research
By Chris Osuh

Nathan Cofnas allowed to resume Ghent University work, as US ambassador claims credit for lifting of suspension

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/30/nathan-cofnas-jason-arday-accuser-teaching-ban-research

#JasonArday #Belgium #Universities #Europe #Highereducation #Education #UKnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #ChrisOsuh

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An anecdote from Paul Halmos's autobiography:

In class. The lecturer works through a proof, on the blackboard. At some point he says "It is obvious that ..." and then states the relationship he relies on in his proof.

One student asks: Excuse me, Professor, I don't see why this is obvious. I don't understand it.

The lecturer nods, turns back to the blackboard, looks at the previous steps, thinks, chalks up some calculations in a corner, thinks some more.

Then he turns back to class. "Yes, as I said, it is obvious."

[Quoted from memory, details in the book will differ.]

#PaulHalmos #ItIsObvious #proofs #HigherEducation

Associated Press: Culture and ethics meets tech: UCLA debuts country’s first bachelor’s in digital humanities. “UCLA is launching the nation’s first digital humanities department and bachelor’s degree this fall. The new discipline combines classical humanities with technical know-how to examine a digitized and increasingly AI-enhanced world.”

#highereducation #highered #communitycollege

https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/RichmondFedOrg/publications/research/econ_focus/2026/q3/district_digest.pdf

https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/new-school-fired-faculty-austerity/

>> Choked with corporate buzzwords, restructuring typically involves eliminating, combining, and rebranding programs and curricula to meet alleged student demand for new kinds of learning. Interdisciplinarity—once a cutting-edge effort to unsettle the boundaries between modes of knowledge—is now a cudgel to beat departments and jobs into extinction. Faculty themselves are drafted into this “visioning” (cue the PowerPoint) of bold futures defined by relentless “dynamism” and “innovation.” <<

#NewSchool #HigherEducation #Universities #Neoliberalism

Spectrum News: Ohio launches dashboards tracking education, careers of high school grads. “Two new resources are now available for Ohioans to gain an insight into student’s education and workforce outcomes after high school. The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW) Director Stephen D. Dackin announced the launch of Ohio High School Outcomes and Ohio Career and Technical Education […]

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-28-26/