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  1. Students are suffering from US colleges’ shaky finances. Trump policies are making everything worse
    By Marina Villeneuve in Lynchburg, Virginia

    Many four-year colleges will resort to laying off faculty, cutting services and increasing prices amid financial stress

    theguardian.com/education/2026

    #USeducation #Trumpadministration #Highereducation #Education #USnews #USpolitics #TheGuardian #MarinaVilleneuveinLynchburg #Virginia

  2. I went to Ikea with my son – and was confronted with my parenting failures | Zoe Williams
    By Zoe Williams

    The pre-university shop is the moment you find out how much domestic wisdom you’ve managed to impart. In my case, none

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Parentsandparenting #Ikea #Students #Family #Lifeandstyle #Highereducation #Education #TheGuardian #ZoeWilliams

  3. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/princeton-university-princeton-strengthens-its-support-for-ai-and-data-science-scholarship-through-data-and-intelligent-systems-initiative/
  4. ‘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

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/s

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

  5. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/sss/
  6. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/times-higher-education-has-academic-twitter-found-its-voice-again/
  7. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/politico-new-irs-proposal-threatens-universities-tax-exempt-status-over-diversity-programs/
  8. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/new-york-times-kenyans-did-college-students-homework-for-years-then-a-i-arrived/
  9. “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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  10. 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
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260901

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

  14. '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

    cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/307215