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Students: as cycle thefts soar, here’s how to protect your bike
By Donna Ferguson

Thefts spike during freshers’ week so make sure you choose a good lock and check your insurance

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/07/bike-theft-university-stolen-lock-insurance

#Cycling #Studentfinance #Universities #Consumeraffairs #UKnews #Insurance #Students #Cycling #Money #Crime #Highereducation #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #DonnaFerguson

Princeton University: Princeton strengthens its support for AI and data science scholarship through Data and Intelligent Systems initiative. “Princeton has established a new academic unit, Data and Intelligent Systems (DaIS), to help accelerate the pace of discovery in artificial intelligence and data science and to support transformative research and teaching across disciplines.”

‘Gigantic spaceship’: University of Bristol’s flagship £500m campus opens https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/07/university-of-bristol-flagship-500m-campus-opens #Bristol #UkNews #Universities #HigherEducation

‘Gigantic spaceship’: University of Bristol’s flagship £500m campus opens
By Steven Morris

Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus near to station will make it easier for students and staff to commute

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/07/university-of-bristol-flagship-500m-campus-opens

#Bristol #UKnews #Universities #Highereducation #TheGuardian #StevenMorris

University of Mary Washington: UMW Launches Virginia’s First Master’s Degree in AI in Business. “The University of Mary Washington has opened enrollment for a new Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence in Business (MS in AI in Business), an innovative graduate program designed to prepare professionals for a rapidly evolving, AI-driven economy. The graduate degree is the first of its […]

Times Higher Education: Has Academic Twitter found its voice again?. “The migration to Bluesky, LinkedIn and Mastodon, which accelerated with the re-election of Donald Trump in November 2024, was assumed by many to be the end of the community known as Academic Twitter. Yet the issues raised by the [Jason] Arday case has reignited debates on the platform in a way not seen for several years.”

Politico: New IRS proposal threatens universities’ tax-exempt status over diversity programs. “The Trump administration unveiled a plan Thursday to cancel the tax-exempt status of universities that it says give preferential treatment to minority students. The proposed regulations released by the IRS are aimed at preventing discrimination on the basis of race and could affect up to 18,000 high […]

New York Times: Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived.. “Mr. Bundi estimates he wrote more than 2,500 essays over the next 12 years, sometimes three a day. He balanced completing his public health degree with helping faraway students studying engineering, medicine and computer science to finish theirs. Some students gave him their school login information so he […]

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...

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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/

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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